New Model D ?

I just saw this on GS so take with grain of salt. Does anyone know anything about this?


https://instagram.com/p/BFjThBaEdjg/

https://instagram.com/p/BFjVKCekdm_/

Could be cool.

looks legit
http://www.heraldsun.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/gallery-moog-pop-up-factory-opens-in-american-tobacco-district/collection_c884c02c-1bae-11e6-860f-5bfe7bbc681d.html#1

Niceeeee. If the Sub and Mother are any indication of sonic sounding direction, then we can’t wait to hear the new edginess, and if sonic size matters, than a DXL can’t be far behind… :slight_smile:

Oh, and pay no attention to the wizards behind the curtain, we sense their blueprinting a cost effective Poly next.

Well, Mioogfest starts tomorrow. Maybe we’ll know more then.

Nah! Doesn’t look right to me. I call ‘fake’ on this, but I’d be delighted to be proved wrong. Maybe it’s a boutique third-party offering but I cannot believe Moog Inc. would produce such a thing when they’ve discontinued the VOS.

If I remember reading correctly Moog registered the Name “Moog model D” about the same time they came out with the new Modulars. It was around the same time as the whole Korg /Arp naming rights were being talked about. Maybe it’s a limited run thing like the 15,35 and 55 Modulars.

have a closer lock





… and check the wall (http://forum.moogmusic.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=25492

https://www.instagram.com/p/BFjq33ciR3x/


sounds like a







moog model d

Pricing should be interesting … :slight_smile:
Model D.PNG

Surprising. :smiley:

@Red - well that doesn’t look like the Asheville factory to me. I’d love Moog to reintroduce the Model D but I can’t see what business sense it makes for them to recreate it accurately. They already had a superior 100% analogue product in the (now discontinued) VOS. Nevertheless, Moog are always full of surprises, so who knows?

Looks like it might have some CV outs.

Well, I’ll appreciate and regularly play my 1978 Model D as long as I live, I don’t care if its long-term value has been truncated.

Check this out guys and galsl:

http://www.matrixsynth.com/2016/05/new-minimoog-model-d-in-works-spotted.html

I respect your opinion, but the VOS certainly isn’t superior in the most important department - sound quality. I really wanted to like my Sub 37, but it was another “modern” analog without the proper vintage mojo IMO. Although Voyager is a very nice synth, I was never a 100% satisfied with that one either. But a proper Minimoog with the original 70s sound quality, that I’ll buy in a heartbeat. Moog made some nice additions to new “Model D” too, like the extra LFO and modulation functions. Osc sync would have been nice too, but you can’t have it all…

I’ve owned and restored four model Ds of various vintages and yes, they sound very good, but not outstanding to my ears. The VOS is more advanced and can sound just as good or better (subjectively). There’s a huge amount of myth and legacy surrounding the Model D and a lot of it quite unjustified in my opinion.

I don’t have any Model Ds any more but I still have a VOS.

There’s a pot on that mod wheel LHC.




Enter the Voyager vs Model D flame war.


Edit: There are 2 switches on the Controllers panel.

That same Matrixsynth.com post mentioned a possible price of $3495 in the comments section.

$3495!!! Well unless it has time-travel capability, I’ll pass :open_mouth:

$3,495 is actually a very good price but that might just be speculation from somebody that doesn’t know.

If these are hand populated boards and hard to find transistor arrays, etc. I doubt they will be making them for that low price. Minimoogs (Vintage) will cost around $4K these days and mine, for one, will have more Mojo than something brand new… see the comparisons have begun : )

Based on the exploded table picture, there looks to be a 3-up DIN board which would suggest Midi, some CV in/outs, no cinch jones, no 6 pin Moog accessory power jack, no .206" foot pedal jacks for the LHC, and a non busbar Pratt kbd. Probably feels nice enough but still, it’s not the same.

Looks like added features and they retained the crappy black fiberboard bottom : ) but to my original point, $3,495 is a great price even if many of us are quite happy with our vintage.

Dave smith can charge $3K for a Pro 10 and that’s a rip off. $3,500 for this, I call that a bargain. If they sold at $4,999 the same crowd that stepped up for the modulars (and then some) would get in line and pony up cash not to mention any extinguished dinosaur keyboard player in a band anywhere worth their salt.

Pro 10? Do you mean Pro 2 or a Prophet 12? The DS Pro 2 has infinitely more possibilities for a working musician than a warmed-over Model D. It also sells for a lot less than you suggest. A rip-off, seriously?