I just scanned and PFD’d these:
“Big Briar products and prices for 1983.”
Includes Synton module prices too.
Bob was the US Synton Dealer for a while.
(Big Briar was Bob Moog’s old company for those that don’t know.)
One or two pages were cut off slightly on Bob’s copier, but most are fine.
If any problems downloading them, please let me know.
http://www.synthfool.com/docs/Moog/BigBriar_Synton_Cat1983.pdf (16.5 meg PDF)
Thanks for posting that. Love the history. Especially the Epson MX-80 printed price list (taking advantage of the double high, double-width character set)!!
That’s really cool, thanks for that. I really wish they would make the touch plate again (not attached to the voyager) that would be great for the foogers!
Thanks.
I’m going through a bunch of old papers and finding all sorts of interesting stuff to put up.
I also posted (in the “other misc” section) the schematics for the Maestro TH-1 Theremin.
I’m pretty sure Bob designed it.
The Big Briar logo in the PDF above also caught my eye and I’ll probably try cutting some in vinyl.
Normally I make little Moog or Arp logos.
This is what happens when I mess up making a Moog vinyl, but use it for something else… 
Indeed that would be nice and in fooger format 
wount be so hard to make i guess..
That 1983 brochure was too cool. As is the moo label on the milk bottle.
Fun stuff .
Looks like a good mess up with the vinyl 
What are you using to cut it ?
Anybody know of an example of that keyboard or can post a pic? Anyone tried the syntovox vocoder?
Way too large for the forum - the Multiple Touch Sensitive Keyboard
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Multiply_Touch_Sensitive_Keyboard_prototype.jpg
Commissioned by John Eaton. Very few made, probably none in operating condition. Each key was touch sensitive in three axis (sort of a Voyager touchpad on each key!!!), very expressive but very hard to play.
Also an article from the Computer Music Journal
http://www.media.mit.edu/resenv/classes/MAS960/NewReadings/moog_evolution.pdf
Here’s a manageable size pic
The keyboard looks crazy, has kind of a buchla vibe to it
Sick! I think there needs to be more keyboards/midi controllers made from wood. Plastic and other materials can look cool, but it just doesn’t feel like an instrument. I’m glad moog and a few other companies still use wood as a staple material.
Very Cool , Thanks Kevin
Especially the Epson MX-80 printed price list (taking advantage of the double high, double-width character set)!!
It was 1983, not 1883. I’m sure it was an FX-80 by then…
(yeah.. I had an MX too.. and still have Apple II’s)
A stand-alone Fooger-format pad would be excellent.
Even if just a two or three axis with no mapping or other high-tech wizardry.
Bob’s single 300 Series pad does look sort of like a MF.
It’s notable that Bob was already a seasoned veteran in EM by then too.
He’d realized there were countless ways to make sound, but far too few ways to control it.
The same ideology as many other pioneers held and sought to improve no matter what the sound source.
The vinyl cutter is Roland’s cheapest SV-8 USB cutter.
It can do stickers, labels and stencils for painting.
Also usable for fairly decent home-brew PC boards.
They’re often used for pin-striping cars and making signs.
Sort of like an X-Y drum plotter with a razor blade.
I had a Syntovox vocoder in once for service.
It was very smooth. Worked well.
I think my favorite is the big Moog rackmount model tho.
It just sounds really good.
Put a drum machine in one channel and a mic in the other and you get instant rap!
That big Eaton keyboard looks Arp’y inside and Buchla-ish outside.
Like an Arp 16 voice piano or Chroma: lots of colored ribbon.
I bet it played well tho. Those pads on the keys are a lot like Buchlas and they can be very expressive.
What are the pads or conductors at the rear of the sharp keys? Conductive paint?
Did a player require a wrist strap or other electrical return to play it? MC?
Thanks for sharing it.
I had forgotten Roland has(had) a vinyl cutter. I have the Gerber GS15 with the Gerber Graphix Advantage system, fun stuff . The Dimension 200 router is also an interesting tool to play with
You’re lucky. I’d love some sort of 2D or 3D cutter or modeling machine.
Roland (Roland DG actually) now even makes a machine to carve artificial human teeth.
They’re trying to break into the dental world, but other machines already exist with a greater user base.
Roland is a gigantic musical instrument company to us, but to most dentists they’re “Who??”
Fwiw, Roland doesn’t tell their users this, but the language that drives their vinyl cutters is common HPGL.
Same as plotters and engravers often use. (very close to PLT files)
I have a sort of semi-homebuilt CO2 laser that reads this language too, so anything I can make in vinyl, I can also cut or engrave with the laser.
(see: http://www.synthfool.com/laser)
I saw one at the Big Briar shop back in 1996. I wanted to try it but they said it was not functional. Back then BB was still heavy into theremins, they just put out the MF filter and ring mod pedals.
Keyboard mag had an article on the beast back then with pics of Eaton and Moog. Did not see a wriststrap on Eaton. Eaton said it is very difficult to play and requires a different playing technique. I can choke the MIDI stream using polyphonic aftertouch on my Kurzweil MIDIBoard, that MTS thing is sending 3-4 continuous MIDI controllers PER KEY. Very easy to choke the MIDI stream. Different technique indeed.
The control system was an IBM PC. No embedded system on that thing.
They should make a midi controller built into dentures.
They should make a midi controller built into dentures.
30 years from now…
“Yeah, I’m into hardcore bio-trance, techno-ska and teeth chatter, but only old school house-like teeth chatter.
Kids today don’t know what good tooth artists were like years ago…”
I’m really looking forward to bio-trance. Just gotta get that line-output from the audio cortex worked out…