Moog 55 as a drum machine

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Here’s a quickly made video of a Moog 55A patched up to be like a drum machine.
Nothing super special here, but it does illustrate how variable a modular can be when doing analog beats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXuWbLGKyR4

For those interested in the patch, it was basically white noise sent to 4 different filters, then to 4 VCAs each with their own envelope generator.
The env generators were controlled by the gate outputs of a Moon modular 569 sequencer with their gate expander module.

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Sounds fantastic, that has to be the most expensive drum machine ever lol

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That was a fun little performance.

Aside from the shocking and unforgivable lack of cowbell, of course. :laughing:

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When it’s done on a Moog 55 there is NO room for cowbell :slight_smile:.

Nice demo Kevin

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You forget the vintage modular-era Moog 931 module: Voltage Controlled Cowbell.

First designed by the lesser-know Moog engineer Gene Frenkle, the 931 is the only known commercial application of the little used Dickinson-Bloom filter and noise source combination. Though it was not tremendously popular or lucrative for Moog (and appeared on only a modest number of recordings) when it was first designed 40 years ago, it has subsequently had a groundswell of interest and is today highly regarded as a cult classic.

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Thanks for the kind words.

Yeah, there’s a lot more that could have been done, but again it was just an experiment and I didn’t have enough patchcords.
Even worse, I’m expected to send it back to the owner immediately now that it’s completed and I won’t get any more time to really fool around with it.

Funny on the cowbell. :slight_smile:
I probably could have done that.
The two oscillators used in a TR-808 have their frequencies listed in the service manual.

On a side note, I know some of the guys in Blue Oyster Cult.
They once gave my wife and I some guest passes to a concert that was being videotaped.
I can’t tell you how tempting it was to yell out “More cowbell”… but no, I kept my restraint.
I’m sure they’ve heard it a million times by now.

K

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If I were at that concert I’d yell FREEBIRD :smiley:

There’s a YT of a Buchla 200e patched as a drum machine… have to find it. Must have been embarassing for the 200e.

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Here’s the YT Buchla 200e drum machine - neat industrial sounds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXzadBbwYFE&feature=related

He’s driving it with the Dual Arbitrary Function Generator using the probability mode. His system is a mix of old and new 200 modules.