Moog Music Forum

Adam

Don't you think it's a little 'off' to have a picture of a Sequential Circuits Inc. Prophet 5 in your profile (it being the one keyboard moog could not fight off with their polymoog or even memorymoog) on THE Moog forum?

Mal

Adam I think Richard sold my prophet 5 rev3.1 straight away . . . I think you got someone elses - is yours a rev3.1? On the Prophet label abover the keyboard (now a sticker and not a metal plaque), is there a small verticle scratch to the sticker in the lower left corner? and on the mod/pitch wheel ...

I am not doing anything in the music business at the moment. i have played in bands and for a long time I wrote music for corporate video presentation but for now the kit is really just a collection. I run a small design studio in London creating multimedia presentation for corporates, websites, int...

DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Looks like you're trying to combat Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson, Patrick Moraz and Geoff Downes all in one fell blow! Well there's a Wizard in all of us I guess . . . actually I think my Synthex might have belonged to Geoff before me . . . I have just put that up for sale on www...

Eric I was very lucky as a kid to have a supportive family and received for Christmas 79 an EDP Wasp at the age of 11. I bought my first synth in 82 (a Prodigy) after saving my money doing a paper delivery round and have never stopped . . . During the late 80's, early 90's I played in an unsigned pu...

Eric The Opus III has little in the way of input/output connectors . . . It is stereo which is unusual for moog. I bet it wouldn't take much to modify the unit to accept an audio signal in through the filter or add CV I/O etc . . . maybe Craig can answer that one? I owned a MicroKORG . . . I bought ...

There you go . . . I just about followed all that Craig! It certainly does sound good though and probably the saving grace of what otherwise would be a limited sounding unit. I always have a big problem with the Opus III's that I have owned in that, I love the sound but it's not something usable on ...

Hey Eric. I have owned 2 Opus III's over the last 18 years . . . having not owned one in some time I recently stumped up the money and picked one up on ebay. Once again I was surprised at the quality of the sound . . . if you solo out all the sections (strings, organ, brass) naturally it sounds thin...

Thanks Craig for that . . . at last we can know the true spec and not go on rumors or missinterpretations. It sounds like a kicking instrument, did anyone record any sounds out of it? I bet if moog put that out now (well, a modern version) it would sell by the warehouse load . . . . I really worry a...

Freqout . . . you are very welcome.

Today we received confirmation of some very exciting happenings over the next 2 months which will feature on the site, can't say more at the moment!

Back to the editing!!!

Mal

Well for moog I think a Poly machine is a problem, as they are a small outfit and R&D cost for such a unit would probably put them out of business again (like the memorymoog and the later SL-8 did the first time round). Naturally if costs were not an issue i would want all those items you listed...

Good point Michael . . . I think that's the largest amount of text we have on the site to date so the button style DHTML scroller has been copied from elsewhere.

I'll look into getting it sorted (I have never scrolled to the end).

mal

Michael You are right . . . 1981 it was . . . sorry, that was just off the top of my head, it's late here in the UK! I have owned 5 model D's in 18 years . . . i used to buy them and when work dried out I would sell them etc (to costly to do that now but there was a time in the late 80's when you co...

MC Having met a few of the "old moog boys" in my time I know how memories can sometimes get a little hazy . . . so, based on my experience of owning several Model D's over the last 18 years I have come accross Maple model D's, and I know that the cabinetry in the early days was very much a...

I still think the only way for moog to make a poly in this day and age is to build a hybrid DSP/analogue synth. What I am getting at is modelling the Oscillators using a DSP chip - digitally, along with all the LFO's, envelopes and mod matrix routing etc and keeping the filters, amplifier and final ...