HA HA
Hahaaa, A Moog keytar!
This should be spam. How many people on this forum have used one of these and how did they sound? Actually, how many were produced?
Goes to show what the late 70’s/early 80’s did to musicians.
BTW, what was the “Unbelievably affordable price”?
Glyph…
You’ve never seen the Liberation ? Far from Spam indeed.. Thanks for the pic Oyster Man..
Moog Liberation - 1980 - List $1500.00..
I believe it was the Original KEYTAR, someone correct me if I’m wrong… Not sure on quanity produced ..
Sounds alot like a Concertmate MG1, which you can get for half the price (sans the keytar staus as well)..
I read a review saying that the Liberation sounds better than a Model D..
Pysch … (or does anyone remember “Moted”) In other words, it sounds unique compared to the Mini, but no where near as deep, wall shaking or sonically pleasing as the Minimoog Model D…
That young man needs to shave his chest. Good band, though.
I owned a Liberation since 1988, just sold it.
It’s more of a lead synth with neat expression controls but it doesn’t sound like a Mini. The aftertouch could be routed to pitch bend, mod wheel, and it could even sweep hardsync’d VCO. Pitch ribbon and wheels are ergonomically placed. Rather expressive tool.
It doesn’t do crap for bass though, even a Rogue was better for bass. The filter was weak, the resonance wasn’t very interesting so not much variation in the sound. Good ring modulation. What it did have over the Rogue/MG-1 was separate controls for octave/waveforms in the VCOs.
If I could interface it to MIDI then I would have used it more. It would make an expressive MIDI controller. It got neglected once I got the Voyager, so I sold it.
I had a white one with case up until just a little while ago. A nice, ultra unique synth, but EXTRTEMELY heavy. It also required a special cable that was very long and had to connect to a controller box.
A neat idea and a Moog, but something that could be accomplished much easier with something like the Roland SH-101.
[quote=“Nick Putrid”]Glyph…
I believe it was the Original KEYTAR, someone correct me if I’m wrong[/quote]
I think the original keytar was the Lync. The Moog, however, may have been the first which was more than a controller and also produced its own sound.
The Lync was a MIDI controller, no sound engine of its own. MIDI became reality in 1983. The Liberation became reality in 1980.
Wayne Yentis’ Clavitar (custom order, not production) preceded the liberation by at least three years.