Do i spot a moog drummachine????

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I was searching for some info on my sonic six and stumbled on this pic

http://www.flickr.com/photos/d-stop/4364766171/in/photostream/

I wonder what the square piece of kit is on the lower left corner?
Could it be a drummashine :open_mouth:

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Whatever it is, I don’t think it’s a Moog…could be wrong though. My first thought was Synamp. :confused:

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Billy cobham and a couple of other guys had custom modular Moog drum setups including frequency shifters, but it was more of an electronic kit than a machine. But I’m sure you could sequence it.

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I need to visit this place just for the Lyra and Apollo.

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That was my first idea more simmons sds like

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Not sure what that is in the picture, but you can see the Moog logo on it. It looks like a patch panel or something.

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Nevermind, actually you can barely see the card in front of it says “Mixer”. I think I saw a pic of one of these before.

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That is a rather intriguing panel of pots, yes?



Eric Siday owned the only Moog Drum modules I have ever heard of, not to say that others aren’t out there. As far as I heard from Oliver, the working condition of these modules is unknown, as they won’t plug it in.

Learn more about these modules here and find all the relevant photo credit information there also
http://olivier-grall.yusynth.net/Moog%20drum%20synth/page%252520moog%252520drum.html

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I’ve seen just about everything that the Trumansburg-Buffalo-Moog factories have made, but that box in the Cantos pic is a new one. Haven’t a clue. Could be a drum machine or a (non-Synamp) mixer sans power amp.

Grall’s modular drum machine was from the Moog Concert In The Garden event, the same event that spawned the modular later to be owned by Keith Emerson.

The modular drum machine contained eight of those drum modules, while the one is Grall’s possession contains six. What happened to the other two?!?

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Not sure where this photo came from, but here is a closer view of the Moog Keyboard Mixer. Looks to have knobs like the Prodigy.




Other than the 700 series prototypes and the Moog Percussion Controller, the closest I know of an almost drum machine/sequencer was the 80’s Moog Song Producer for the Commodore C-64 series computers.

Here I have it hooked up to a drum module using five of the outputs.




It had a software called “Midi Drum Songstepper” with eight triggers on the back, along with a clock in/out of the Song Producer.

The box the SP came with had a check box for “Analog Module”. Who knows what that would have been?

Another pic of the 700 series with the strange keyboard controller. Looks to have rockers over each key and some type of pin matrix on top?

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Okay, I have never seen that keyboard mixer before, just the (absurdly expensive) 1084 and 1200 mixing boards:

http://www.analogindustries.com/blog/entry.php?blogid=1129938952538

But I knew I saw the word “mixer” on the white card in the photo.

BTW, maybe the elusive 1131 percussion controller was part of that prototype.

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  1. That song producer configuration, was that not the first laptop style studio? lolol It’s pretty bad when “color” is a feature. Boy, how the times change.
  2. The keyboard mixer (never heard of it before), is that a volume control for every key?
  3. I first read of the 1131 percussion controller on synthmuseum.com, but have only seen pictures of and own the 1130 DRUM controller. Is there a difference?

Thanks for the great photos.

Eric

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Interesting - that mixer appears to be a prototype. Effects buss and stereo. Pretty crude etched metal panel, and production units would use something cheaper and flashier.

Never heard of a 1131 percussion controller, I think that is a typo.

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http://everything2.com/title/Moog+Modules The 1131 is on this list, which compiled every single Moog module known to man, and apparently, one that isn’t. :slight_smile:

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I’m guessing since that drum system uses the words “drum synthesizer” and “percussion synthesizer” that there were 2 controllers, one meant to be played with sticks and the other with hands. But since it was a prototype, I bet there were only a few 1131s made.

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And that list is NOT accurate as I spotted some errors

And indeed, even the author of that page is unsure of its autheticity:

I created this list by combining several more incomplete ones found on the web. I can’t say this one is final and complete, though.

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I have seen the 1131 listed before. Here for example:

http://www.synthmuseum.com/moog/moomods.html

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And that list has the SAME errors

Both of them list the 950 as a 49 key controller, it was a 61 key controller.

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I see it in a lot of lists…apparently, both the 1130 and 1131 existed at some point. I’m guessing (just guessing) that the 1131 might have been a prototype, or custom job. Maybe like what Carl Palmer used on Brain Salad Surgery, or something. :confused:

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Can’t rule a typo out, but to have 2 different names/numbers for the same controller is a pretty bad error. Maybe it was not even a prototype, perhaps they conceived of it without building it. But the concept is pretty simple, a speaker transducer CV generator just like the 1130 except in a hand drum frame rather than a tom tom.