Moog Music Forum

Thanks MC,

You really understand the electronics of it all !! wow !!

I wish that I had studied Electronics !! Its a massive gap in my knowledge which is very frustrating.

I really appreciate the thorough and helpful explaination.

Ta,

Paul

Hi Sunny, playing chords with 3-4 fingers on each hand , therefore with "only" 6 voices it too quickly gets to voices not sounding or interrupted too obviously. just doesn't feel and play comfortable. with 6 voices i often end up playing with right or left only 2 notes and the other hand m...

Hi MC,

Pesonally, i was not at all aware of the different 'Priority' settings of the MemoryMoog. Though i guess this specific kind of thing is mostly only known by people who actually OWN a MultiMoog.

Yes, that was a good little demo of the MemoryMoog you put together !!

Ta,

Paul

Frankly if your friend claims that the Memorymoog requires a different playing technique to sound like the Minimoog, then he doesn't know the Memorymoog very well. I have owned my Memorymoog Plus since 1985 and it has served as a very effective monophonic lead synth without any change of technique....

How about these? http://www.retrosynth.com/~analoguediehard/studio/keyboards/moog_memorymoog/memorymoog-leads.mp3 Hi MC, Thanks a lot. Is this you yourself playing on your MemoryMoog using your own personally programmed sounds ?? If so, then you made a couple of really good uses of the Pitch Bender...

The sound of a Memorymoog can be somewhat related to the sound of other polysynths of that Curtis era: Prophet 5 (REV3+), Oberheim OB8-OBXa, Roland Jupiter 6, etc. What sets it apart from those is the fact that it offers 3 VCOs per voice (instead of only 2), and 6 genuine Moog ladder filters. And, ...

i'm also not such a big fan of the memorymoog: unreliable and expensive. afcourse the RL mod really helps the instrument a lot, but the price is also higher then. also the six voices , when all function indeed, is not comfortable, as i need 8 to play a bit normal/ natural. therefore the jp8 and a6 ...

Yes I can confirm this. The MM can be upgraded to be fully reliable !!! Completely new PSU must be installed, a bulk of components must be swapped, units must be cleaned. At the end the tuning-stability will be enhanced significantly but not for 100%. As I know sound will be the same. It's obviosly...

Hi Alien, That JMJ video is amazing (and also very sad !!). Thats a seriously high pressure situation to be in on a gig !! :( My friends MemoryMoog was totally unreliable when he bought it a couple of years ago for around 2,000 GBP. But he sent it to Rudi who worked on it for 6 x weeks and charged h...

Only for LAMM Memorymoogs. Memorymoog plus with MIDI does not implement sysex patch dump, but you could probably use cassette I/O to transfer patches, just connect the output of one to the input of the other. Thanks MC, i am bit unsure here so please bear with me. Is a LAMM one which has the Rudi L...

when buying one which hasn't been revisioned recently bringing it up to good state, might cost you about 300-800 euro's, rudi does it even more excessive, inclusive midification etc, which afcourse also has it's price Yes Sunny, Rudi charges up to 1,500 Euro for a MiniMoog service. The MIDI kit cos...

Slightly off topic :-

If you had two MemoryMoogs which both have MIDI, can you perform a complete PATCH DUMP (of sounds) from one to the other ?? So similar to that of a BULK DUMP on digital keyboards.

Ta,

Paul

Thanks Alien,

Thats great. i don't mind the fact that the Wheel is not spiring-loaded. But its the fact that the center position was way too stiff. i was worried that this was not adjustable.

The Mod Wheel is fine.

Paul

Hi Alien, i did not know that you can adjust the Pitch Bend tension. This one was extremely stiff (and as far as i am concerned it was unusable !!). i use the Pitch Bend all the time in my playing. i think you are correct in that it was not the original keyboard. The key lengths were shorter than my...

Hi guys, i had the chance to play on a Minimoog for 10 x mins tonight and also watch my friend perform his set on it. A couple of things really struck me :- The key lengths are very short !! i was not expecting that at all. They did not ever appear to look short (to me) in photos i have seen. And th...