Hi there,
I’m the happy owner of one Voyager RME, 2 x Slim Phattys, 2 x MF101 and a MF103.
So… after dedicating thousands of hours of creative thinking to develop wonderful analog products, the new direction of Moog (after Bob) is…
a 99c digital app??? @%& arggghhh 
a big boooooo from me
With best regards
Oh cmon really? Mike is keeping Bob’s legacy very much alive…the Moog guitar, Taurus 3, Slim Phatty.
Moog is combining the world of superior analog synthesizers and the new digital age. MIDI syncing, the new interfaces, presets…it’s the new world music is in. I personally think the digital syncing is amazing…I love having presets on my LP. iPads are here to stay (I’m typing on one now!) and are a big part of our world. People have used iPads now for all kinds of functions…utilities, social networking, music…moog is just keeping up with the times…and really setting the pace and breaking down barriers…which is really what they’re all about in the first place.
Maybe they should have charged $100+ for this app. It seems to legitimize software, it works for Universal Audio. They slap a famous vintage name on a plugin and charge over $300 for a questionable quality product. But an essentially free app that is actually useful is a good way to get exposure and advertising for their hardware. Good idea in my opinion, more honorable than UA’s model, but then again I don’t use computers for music, so my opinion carries no weight.
Actually, Ipads AREN’T here to stay.
A few years or so I read a consumer reports article about fading technologies. E-readers, low end digital cameras, gps devices, and tablets were all showing lower and lower profit margins. This was after the ipad but before the 2010 christmas boom in sales of tablets and e-readers namely the ipad.
The article went on to say that the smartphones were the cause of it all. Noone will spend 100 bucks on a digital camera or ipod if their phone will do it all for them. If you want a camera you will have to buy a professional grade camera. They went further stating that the ipad was designed BEFORE the iphone, and that Steve Jobs released the ipad, knowing that it was a soon to be obsolete technology.
Then this article came out today
http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/717/7-gadgets-that-wont-be-around-in-2020
Im not thrilled about the software attempts either. They are getting that brand out, and I think that it will pay off for them over the very long term. I don’t know what the demographics for ipads are now, but i know kids as young as 3 have them. So 15 years ago we asked ourselves why gradeschool children had cell phones, you know ipads will do the same thing. THe people who can’t afford Moog can get their fingers interested in synthesis for a penny with that famous brand and look to the big boy toys when he can afford a second mortgage.
Eric
Moog Music has always been about making tools that musicians want and need. Like it or not but ipads are becoming a huge part of the music making process so i can understand why Moog would go this route. Also this little app will most likely help fund bigger and better things. they will have more R&D money to make things like the moog guitar, cluster flux and murf. chances are they will probably sell more apps than anything else because every musician with an ipad will buy it, and any that were on the fence about ipads will probably buy one for this app its basically a $530 moog synthesizer (which is probably the cheapest we will ever get a new moog synth). although not analog, it does have that unique moog quality
Because they didn’t just put out an analog Chorus/Flange. They’re going totally digital. 
Once a year, for the next five years, I’m
going to publicly remind you of this quote. 
If you read the article you would see that most of those devices are supposed to be nonexistant by 2020.
So:
Three years after you publicly remind me, I will remind you back. 
Indeed !
Of course, everything is impermanent but I don’t think a iPad (or other tablet) replacement will be showing up anytime soon. Also the article that Eric quoted doesn’t even say that tablets will disappear by the end of the decade. It does say that tablets will replace E-readers (wow, who would have thought ?)
It is a well known fact (now) that the iPad was prototyped before the iPhone. It was during development that Apple realized that the UI they had developed was perfect for a phone.
Saying that tablet technology is soon to be obsolete is just preposterous.
My own opinion is that Animoog is one of the best - if not the best - iPad application build so far and drawing this kind of attention to Moog Music can only be good for the company and ultimately it’s customers.
Eric,
did you read the article ?? It says:
“> The tablet will largely supplant the e-reader in the same way that the iPod increasingly gets displaced by smartphones> ,”…
Everything you need to know is in my earlier post, but here are a few more things to look over. It’s not a matter of who is right or wrong, it is just a matter of the rate of evolution of technology.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/23/paper_makes_tablets_obsolete/
http://gearsofbiz.com/all/motorola-atrix-4g-makes-tablets-netbooks-obsolete/
Anyway, Congratulations to moog on their new products…they went modular!
Over 25 years ago I remember hearing about how analog synths would stop being made any longer.
They spoke of how frustrating they were to own, operate and move and that digital could do all the same things even better.
I also remember… so many times… hearing about how Apple Computer was about to go out of business at any moment.
it reminds me of being an “indie” snob ,and resenting one of “my” bands when they achieved success,and all the “ignorant” joe six packs all of a sudden had access to said band.now i,ve grown up,and i can’t stand the fact that any d****bag with an i-pad can be exposed to Moog!
I’m glad that Moog could very well be a household name again, especially for the up-and-coming youngsters out there.
I don’t think that Moog should be a quality that is exclusive to only the professional, or people with good credit either, though I will admit that I purchased Moog gear because it is the best and I want my recordings to have elements that not just anybody can have.
They need to stay in business and whatever they have to do to stay in business, aside from cutting quality is fine by me.
yes,you are correct.if this gadget proves to be profitable for Moog,it’s well worth it.
I LOVE Animoog! and I mean ANY moog… too!!!
I finally bought an iPAD simply because Moog released Animoog… (Filtertron is also way cool btw)
I finally bought myself a Voyager,last week a few short days after Animoog was released… Yesterday I bought and Etherwave Plus as well very excited by the ‘touch’ technology of the X-Y Pad on the Electric Blue as well as on Animoog, and the potential of using the theremin as a controller for the Voyager … so sorry if this is off topic from the OP but YES (sincerely!) Congrats on ALL your new products Moog. Keep 'em coming! all best, and many thanks to you all! PETE