I was demonstrating my Phatty to a friend today who plays keys for my guitarist’s other band, and although he is a great player with monster chops & years of playing experience, he had never played a real analog synthesizer before. Needless to say, he was blown away by the sounds, and he was slack-jawed while I was sweeping the cutoff & resonance controls, and demonstrating the glide, octave switching and arpeggiator. He had been looking at various romplers to buy & use for his leads, but he became an analog/Moog convert today. Its always cool to give someone their first introduction to the wonderful world of subtractive synthesis. Now if I only had his chops…
Man you are out there turning people into Moog junkies. Thats horroble to do, lololol cause its an expensive addiction. 
Eric
I’m not opposed to it! I wish I could turn all my friends into Moog junkies haha. More people buying = more future products! woohoo!
No doubt. The more money Moog makes means more research and development on bigger and better products.
It’s a win win for sure.
= Happier me.
YES! Mind control is a wonderful thing. Moog propaganda, anyone? 
yeah..once you heard a moog, there’s no going back..
I posted a LP only demotrack on a dutch synthforum.. already about 4-5 people who NEED one.. hehehe
years ago I used to have a lot of synths, including analogs, but then did them all away the ease of DAW’s.. Then.. I discovered the sound again, and certainly won’t buy any budget analogs again..
It’s amazing how technology has progressed over the years, but plugins are still a long way from the real thing.
I completely agree… I started everything digitally, DAW’s and plug-ins mainly.. but I never really discovered the sounds I was looking for untill I went hardware, and analog.
Not to mention, once I went hardware, I started learning a lot more about synthesis, just naturally.. I find it gives you a much better personal understanding of it when your touching it, physically using it.
I went so far as to look into hardware mastering equipment, instead of relying on software like I have done in the past…
There was a point when I was skeptical, was weighing the pros and cons of hardware vs software, (mostly the prices were overwhelming)
But now its clear as day to me. No software VST has ever came close to giving me the same feeling w sound that the Moog’s I own have given to me. Same can be said for software compressors I’ve used. Everything that can improve my sound is worth it.
The Moog gear is really a great tool for the studio, all synthesis aside. Bring high quality hardware componants capable of handling virtually any audible signal, they really take the load off of what we expect computers to do, namels running reverb and compression and various effects per channel, eating up our valuable processing speed.
So just being able to output a signal to something like a filter or phaser to let it handle the load and impart its own quality to a specific track will go a long way in anyones studio.
Eric
My first synth was a used Yamaha DX27 in 1990. I tweaked those parameters till they bled psychedelic metallic noise. I thought it was the best synth in the world at the time.
My next synth was a Kurzweil K2000 in 1995. I spent months sampling radio broadcasts and running them through the Kurzys algorithmic shapers and syncs to create bizarre alien noise.
I bought a Yamaha RM1X in 2000, then a Korg MS2000 in 2005.
Nothing grabbed me though like my first analog synth in 2009, the Little Phatty, and shortly after the Voyager.
Now I hear synth sound differently and even though I still own a Kurzweil, Yamaha and Korg, they’ve all been sitting unused since then.
In fact, I could sell them all and be satisfied with one Moog.
the good thing with analog synthies is the direct human access to the sound and its mutations. My old MiniMoog D still offers me new sound areas and it’s great fun to discover it by tweaking and turning knobs rather than intellectually transfering sound ideas into numbers and digital increments and diving through menues and onion logical operating structures.
Now with my new Voyager I even get more possibilities to reach new sounds. And particular with the Moogs (I know the MiniMoog D, MultiMoog, Rogue, Prodigy and now the new Voyager and LP) it is really very difficult to create bad sounds.
Digital synthies are good for the ordinary work and a reliable and repeatable access to a sound. But an analog synthi leads to actually play with it. It’s like to put magic red shoes on and you can’t stop anymore.
jeje i did the same thing with my friends, but they all have synths… but not moog… after listening the LP, they couldn’t be happy with his VA synths! jejeje
SUBTRONIK-
When I got my LP I was in a an analog daze of mooginess too, and I thought I’d sell all my other gear for a Voyager. But I didn’t, and you know I’m glad because even though the Moog has superior sound qualities there still are things that it just can’t do. I started forcing myself to play with my other gear, and in turn my music is more full. It makes me love my Moog more, but also I find out what I love about my other gear too.
i’m selling my microkorg. I’m sick of this virtual staff i have around for so long in my life.i can’t stand it anymore, all those fake monsters
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I’ve thought about selling mine for quite a while, but considering I would get next to nothing for it… it might be worth holdin onto… even if it does collect dust.
I’ve thought about selling mine for quite a while, but considering I would get next to nothing for it… it might be worth holdin onto… even if it does collect dust.[/quote]
i’ll by CP-251 instead 
sell the microkorg while it’s still worth something! a cp-251 will still be handy in 20 years. microkorg will (probably) be a non-functional hunk o plastic.
the darn Moogs are a “gateway” substance. Causing us to plunder our savings to chase the sonic euphoria !!!
Heh, guess the utilties will go wanting this month…
that’s what I tought 
not to get in deeper discussions…
Naaaah, the Micro is cool in it’s own way. Maybe years from now people will look back on this time and wish they had that ‘turn of the millenium’ glassy synth sound.
Well, maybe not. But the Micro has its benefits. Even though I sold mine, I eventually got an MS2000b, which I then sold and eventually got the Radias which is awesome!
Multimode filters, vocoder, mega portability. The knobs feel good. I was playing the Microkorg XL today and kinda liked it. But it’s not in the same league as the real stuff of course…