Just seen this on Moog’s Facebook page and it’s now on the website so official!
http://moogmusic.com/news/first-500-series-module-moog-music
Wow!
Good, maybe this will stop people from polluting the forum with concerns that Moog is going digital.
Beat you by a couple of hours :
http://www.moogmusic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1955&start=405
So this is weird, I see no ins or outs. Then does that mean that the plugs are in the back?
Yeah it’s a 500 series…the “lunchbox” style modules that have become popular over the last few years. I/Os in the rear
WOW 840 bucks?
Eurorack?
I want to see where this goes! This is probably the most significant development since the Voyager.
Sorry Erick, not Eurorack but drivel marketing garbage. BTW, has Moog ever heard of MU format?
Yeah it looks like were going to have a new rack shelf designed for these the “500 rack”.
nice, good thing to see
( one more step towards the release of the thru modular range of moog ?)
really would like to try this one for some time in my studio..
Sigh. Somewhat meaningless to me, as the API format is another expensive backplane, plus all other modules for it are serious expensive.
Another bit of GAS to avoid, but then i’m not a Big Studio, just a synth weenie.
I imagine the profit margins in the Eurorack space are much smaller than API, plus there are plenty of moog-clone filters in that market already.
It would be nice to see an updated Moogerfooger with the bipolar Amount and hi/low pass option.
I’m surprised and overjoyed to see that Moog is getting back into modular synthesis. It’s something I don’t know that I’ll ever be able to afford, but it makes me happy nonetheless. 840 dollars seems a little ridiculous for a module, but hey, it’s Moog and it’s modular synthesis. A great pair.
I sincerely hope this isn’t the beginning of yet another completely proprietary platform that requires more power supply conversions.
I think this might very well be the platform through which we can build our own truly Polyphonic Moog Synth.
I don’t think this a synth product. Its studio thing like a compressor ,limiter or eq. I’m glad to see it, don’t need it but it’s cool anyways. Maybe a 5U is down the road some place. But this is not it.
Slabwax
Sadly, no.
It has nothing to do with modular synths.
The API format is designed for studio gear, it’s a common backplane that supplies ins/outs and lets you plug in various modules, which are
usually mike pres, compressors, and other studio tools.
Example: http://www.apiaudio.com/5006b.html
Note the small ‘lunchbox’ unit is $500 US, with no modules.
See: http://www.apiaudio.com/vpr_alliance.html for the rest of it.
Pro Audio, not modular.
I was at the AES ‘convention’ in NYC today and saw what must have been this product. There was nobody at the Moog booth so I just passed on by without paying much mind to it. No synths or foogers setup; again, it’s an Audio Engineering conference, not a musicians or synth gathering.
Spent a good 30 minutes chatting with Marc Doty in the Bob Moog Foundation booth (mostly monopolizing his time : ) but the comments above are correct, it’s to appeal to Pro audio/Small studio types. Here are two other Series 500 rack vendors (notice XLR on the back of the 2nd unit)
http://www.radialeng.com/whbeta/re-workhorse.htm (this page give a pretty good visual overview and there is a link to Messe2010 when this was released, it will explain all…)
http://www.adesignsaudio.com/500hr.html
Sure “we” would rather have a bunch of 1/4" ins and outs but the other half of the community, prefer XLRs back to a big bay or into a MOTU or FocusRite rig.
Lunchbox is a hugely popular format now, with very good low price modules and even cheaper lunchboxes/power racks by other manufacturers out there. Combining high quality sound reproduction and analog synthesis is the logical way to go. Everything has pretty much been done in electronic music at this point, I have not heard anything revolutionary in the past few years, and the only new sounds I have heard are harsh digital mutilations of sound. Even with all these weird crazy modules coming out, the tried and true basic modules like the moog filter still sound the best, and to me the best evolution is just to improve on what’s already there. Now more people will hear what a moog filter sounds like through a neve 1073, La-2a, type modules, etc. etc. Not that is hasn’t been done, but this type of direct interface between studio and synth gear has never been explored much. That is why i suggested that moog make a 500 series module a few months ago, and it’s hard to believe they didn’t see my idea and run with it.
Hi Guys first post here.
i registered as this product appeals to me but the functionality of it has some food foor thought.
not being a guitar pedal and having a envelope for me i would want my source signal being feed into the filter to be triggered via an external source, say for instance a hi hat loop 1/4 via a jack input , that way i can turn boring pads into something differnt.
Make it happen guys a simple revision would make this unit so much more effective processing the input signal prehaps adding a simple switch to switch between ext trigger of envelope / source.
Please add a front input jack to manually trigger the envelope and use a switch to toggle between jack input or source signal.
any other users feel the same please post and notify the good guys at moog, front input jacks are widely used in the 500 format so please look into it.
This has made me so angry that I wish Amos would stand up for this and give an explanation of what the F they were thinking.
The Animoog is awesome and doesn’t need to be defended but this is very different and makes me question what’s going on there in Asheville.
They were thinking they are a business that needs to expand their horizons and make income, which is the goal of any business. No business would survive without profit margins, and just because this product’s not for you, doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy their other stuff. Modern studios buy 500 series gear like candy, so why not tap the market? I think both the animoog and ladder, while not that great in themselves, are a brilliant marketing strategy. I’m curious to hear why you think the ladder so undefendable (from a business perspective, not consumer). From an engineer/musician’s perspective, my mf-101 is still killer, and I enjoy it every time I fire it up. Much cheaper and better than the ladder i’m sure, but if I was an engineer without synth experience and not a musician, the ladder would appeal to me. So those of you complaining about the ladder’s lack of features, why not dust off the old 101, or use external input on your moog synth.