Does anybody know if Moog is planning a polyphonic synth in future?
I wanted to spend some money for a SE Omega /Code but rather would prefer to buy a moog for chords beside my voyager.
I wouldn’t count on it. this has been discussed in multiple forums multiple times. if you really want poly on a moog and esp in a voyager setting by more voyagers and midi them together.
I hear you. Invest on an Eventide H-8000 FW and use the multi-shifter which works wonders on monophonic sources. You can do up to 5 harmonizations thus, i.e. you get a 5-note chord. Instant poly-heaven!
cool tip, Izk
Do you use it?
I mean, is the eventide strong enough to gobble a minimoog input and spit a nice-sounding string pad or brass sforzando,
or does it work just for weird effects?
At 5 grands, it costs like 3 Prophets, or 2 well serviced polymoogs, so…
In the meantime I’ll try that with the cheap Digitech I use for vocals.
The converters in the H-8000 FW have huge headroom.
There is an mp3 demo in Eventide’s site, where at 07:30 this particular algorithm is used. In the demo Mathias doesn’t use a Minimoog but you can get an idea of what it can do.
And there’s always the possibility to tweak as much as you like.
sounds huge.
Still, 5x10square2 is enough for one solina + SOME phase shifter pedals + 1 prophet 08 and one good conditions OB
I think there’s cheaper ways to get a lush stringpad
Impressive effects though: the final voice processing example is definitely nice.
Wow, 5 grand. Anything cheaper that can do something similar?
at this point (indeed, already at the “eventide” point - but putting a minimoog thropugh acheap harmonizer is definitely beyond the tipping point):
why not just buying a digital synth, in which polyphony-per-buck is never an issue?
Any analog synth “polyphonysed” [oops, there’s “phony” in “polyphonysed”…] through a digital pitch shifter becomes a digital synth, or at best a hybrid one.
It may be cool, and sound good, but why then keeping the “analog” premise?
just asking, thanks.
A monophonic through a harmonizer is NOT a proper polyphonic.
uh.
it’s not polyphonic,
and it’s not analog,
much less it sopunds like a moog.
But all this futile discussion was born because nobody wants to admit that,
if the purpose is getting a nice pad or brass hit,
a cheap DSI Tetr4 will do the job for just 800 bucks,
and a matrix 1000 for a quarter of that.
The rest is up to insipiration (50%) and perspiration (the remaining 90%, according to the yogi berra recipe), not knobs or bucks.
But… not a chance of common sense filtering into gear-lust
While it absolutely isn’t the same thing as a polyphonic analog by any stretch, you can still get some great sounds using a monophonic synth + harmonizer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhD4nSw-PS4
Might not be of interest to the analog-or-nothing purist types, but for those just looking to expand the range of sounds without making a huge investment, it’s a good option.
this could go on forever.
I miss the “less money” part of the “mono+harmonizer” solution to analog polyphony
- sh 101 = 700/750 eur
- pitch factor = 500 eur
= 1200/1250 eur
on the other hand,
tetr4, 4 arpeggiators, 4 sequencers, 4 true analog voices = 700 eur
-700
+1200
= 500 eur in your bank, which you could spend on improving the quality of your food intake, sharing it with a nice girl,
then improving your inspiration (and hopefully some perspiration as well 
)
The tetr4 doesn’t look as sexy as a sh101! 
With a SH 101 you are always the hero on stage. How do you want to rock your ass off with a tetr4?
Some girls told me that keyboarders are the least desirable band members, because they always appear like computer nerds. So trying to look more “human” should be importand for all synthesizer players.
Whaaat?
- CM
That’s pretty much the tone you can ear throughout, when reading Keith Emerson’s autobiography : ‘Pictures of an Exhibitionist’
Don’t tell that to these guys…
oh, come on…
let’s stop immediately this unrelevant discussion…
You won’t really start a debate about “keyboards vs guitar”, won’t you?
what’s next: “analog or digital”? “pc or mac” ? “beatles or stones”? “yamaha or korg”? THAT’s nerdish!
SCIENTIFIC STUDIES have made it clear once and forever that:
guitar players a 
re concave-chested, pale, and have funny facial hair. They usually die young in stupid accidents. Or, if alive, in their 50s are already pathetic relics whose face components fall all over the place,
[and let’s not mention bass players and their “lonely and melancholic albeit dispotic” attitude, their propensity to suicide and to pump up the volume for attention]
while keyboard players 
(especially analog synthesists, and above all jazz synthesists) kick ass, play one mean ball, tennis, boxe or whatever, eat well, drink better, and live long lives, siring cute children with young women well into their 70s.
That’s a fact (I read it in The American Journal of Artistic Medicine), the rest is vacuous chatter.
As for “nerdish look”, I play in my baseball jersey, proud of my strong and tanned forearms and …er… “coach belly”. My blond wife adoringly watches me from behind the mixer, and condescendigly tolerates the teenagers throwing me bras.
Discussion closed
oh, by the way:
Tetr4 is small enough to be used (two of them) as a sofisticated nipple cap,
when dancing naked while playing.
If you can’t consider THAT kinky, i dunno what.
haha. you made my day 