synths designed by bob

Great insight as always Brian !

PS… I think the plastic sides will look great too ! The funny thing is, I think most people assume (as I first did) the plastic sides will be black … (ala Rogue, MG1) hmm? hehe… :astonished:

are they clear blue plastic? with lights behind them

So who designed the source and memorymoog?? They have the same brushed aluminium style case and wood type, same lettering style,similar raw sound with mixer that distorts great.

I belive that amogst the team that designed Memorymoog, Source, Prodigy and (OLD Moog music’s last synth) SL-8, who never got released were Rich Walborn, Tony Marchese and Ray Caster if I got that right.
More you can find at Moog Archives history page - although it doesn’t mention exact designers, it has a chronicle about every year’s releases from Moog Music.
Also I 've seen mentioned in an old Synth Museum page, that the Source externals were designed by some industrial design firm who was brought in by Moog Music.

Nick

Sorry, just revisiting this one.

I have to say, it’s a futile point to argue - as mentioned before, team efforts are The Way of The Moog since about 1967. I’ve been talking to so many of The Team over the years, that it’s clear “no one” designed a product by themselves, with very few exceptions. I admire the first post - trying to clarify the mythology of anything that said MOOG was designed by Bob. Certainly that’s not true, but he was involved in many, many products (MC’s list is the closest, but without acknowledging dozens of people working on those projects). For example, Tony Marchese, Jim Scott etc. had the major role in some of those products, and others we don’t know about were probably the same. Even the Crumar Spirit was not “A Bob Moog” thing, but a combination done by a team of people he trusted. Having worked with him a bit from Big Briar to Moog, I saw firsthand how he always involved people in his work, and it’s an excellent way to work - sometimes you even hand a whole project off to someone better-suited to it.

Bob brought someone else in to design the entire 960 Sequencer in 1968, other people did major parts of some synths credited to him, and some synths are officially credited to him that he did almost nothing on. Yet, other times people say he was not involved - when those projects were admittedly started/finished by someone else yet Bob had a serious hand in them. As I recall, he was not the kind of person to quibble over details, but did feel odd when people miscredit things.

Sadly, the answers are “there is no answer” (it’s not a yes or no question on each product) and “we don’t know” (too many people involved in any project, in varying degrees - even they may not agree).