I am not a fan of the prophets because to my ears they don’t sound like a synth should. But the polyphony is pretty cool and something I’d like to see from moog one day.
I know I can chain some phattys up etc, but looking at the werkstadt shows, maybe 6 of those built into a knob per function casing, maybe with a patch bay for some of the same modularity the werkstadt has…
Seems like it could be done? Ok maybe not for under $2500 as I would like… But not impossible?
Feel free to correct me, I realise six sets of patch bays for each oscillator might not be… Practical…
Sorry. I didn’t see anything on the werkstatt side of things, only the bigger more expensive mini moog voyager side of things, which would be way out most peoples budgets.
There are so many options for polys, and most modern ones are compromised in some way. A poly voyager with just 4 voices would cost over 10k. Also, you can build a poly voyager with rme’s and a midi processor. That said, they did build a $150,000 synth, so I don’t see it as a problem technically, just that it would not make sense financially.
If you want analog piano sounds, buy yourself a Yamaha C3! Not a polyphonic Moog !
Anyway a polyphonic moog will probably cost as much, and certainly not sound as good for piano sounds…
I HAD a polyphonic Moog. It wasn’t what you all seem to wish it was. I am still suprised they tried it twice. One was horrible and the other was merely problematic. And EVERYONE complained it didn’t sound like a MiniMoog!
If it would have been remotely stable, I MIGHT have kept it.
I’ll stick with great mono synths and not want compromised polys.
The only thing that I can tell for sure in general is, a VCO synth will never come at i.e. a Prophet 12 for 2 1/2 Ks. But 15 Ks, that would be crazy and very likely let the producer go bankrupt in these days.
An insider has told me a few days ago three big music stores here in this country closed definitively.
And the synth market is over-saturated.
I wonder how the take up was on the Slim Phatty ‘Poly’ paradigm, in other words, how many people bought at least 3 of them or maybe 2 to add to their Little Phatty and how that worked out. It certainly looked good on TV.
I’m in a European country where people have money and the majority in usual buy their instruments and gear mostly only because of this…
And what makes me even more angry musicians and very good musicians diminished in number obviously with 80-90%.
Audience who had been interested in band playing as well…
For young new and still unknown groups it’s almost impossible to gather some people in a room.
Ten years ago when I came back to the ART rock band playing and had been looking for good musicians the advertisment paper had been loaded great with musicians and very skilled ones who liked to play.
When I’m opening up every saturday now there are only about 2 o 3, and nothing to do with rock music or ART rock.
Interest in band playing obviously diminished dramatically and to find a keyboarder who likes to play synths, organ and piano is almost impossible to find…
It’s sad, sad, sad…
In other parts of this country it seems to be slightly better, or praobably far more better in much bigger towns, but also decreasing…
I’m living in a town with 200 ks of habitants…and possibilites for gigging diminished almost to zero, because people who live in the same places always complained about the noise, and performances had to stop.
The stores had been general music stores who sold up from guitars, drums, keyboards to everything else…
