I was granted the privledge of playing the largest pipe organ in Arizona. It was a most awesome and scary moment. I had to learn quickly to not listen to my playing as it was at some points nearly 250msec behind what I was doing on the manuals.
To get an idea for it. Plug your Moog into a Delay and set it for 125 to 250msec with one repeat and no dry in the mix. (Full effect) Then play your favorite song with the amp turned up. (Pipe organs are NOT quiet!)
Try and keep in tempo!!!
How the good organists actually play the pedals ahead of the Great and Swell ahead of that is beyond me!
That does look possibly true. I wouldn’t might some official moog confirmation other than a picture that the PCB for the OS is different to the Voyager. If that is indeed the case, its a good reason to get an OS - whereas currently I don’t think there is a real advantage for it.
What is true is that like the Voyager, the OS keybed is controlled by a scanning PCB which is in fact digital, and some have wondered why MIDI wasn’t included despite this fact.
“There are no microprocessors or digital clocks anywhere near the control panel or sound engine of the OS. There is one digital element only in the Old School; it still uses a key-scan processor. However, this processor is self-contained underneath the keyboard, far away from any analog bits, and only an analog pitch-CV and gate ever goes from it to the analog board… all other control signals are fully analog, direct from the panel to the synth engine with no scanning or digital shenanigans. It should make for a purer sound. Of course you can control the Old School via pitch-CV and Gate from an analog modular-style keyboard, as well, using the CV jacks on the panel.”
The best part about the OS, to me, is the interface. I just felt more “at home” with the OS than with the regular Voyager. Looks pretty too (but so does the whitewash / electric blue VGer)
i am not too concerned with the differences between the two voyagers. the os to me is just a no bs powerhouse. i was jamming along with a nord lead and the sounds were not even close to each other. with either of the voyagers you are getting amazing sound!
i am not sure if i can hold any synth even to the quality of the moog sound. i do on the other hand secretly want to get a rhodes to team up with the moog. that is next on my wish list. i know someone with a 54-key model that is fully restored and wants to sell it. i just need to round up the money before someone else snatches it up
Yeah, some of those electric pianos can’t be beat in a mix. Like in Alan Parsons Project, Eye in The Sky. I’m guessing thats a Fender Rhodes.
Organs are interesting. Did anyone ever try to make a synthesizer off of that concept? Fender Rhodes sound very analog and organic, I dont know how organs work, but I 'm pretty sure it’s not sampled sound. Is that a voltage controlled deal? Like are organs simple, one-trick synths that do that one thing really well?
edit: Ok I’m starting the answer to my own question. Electric pianos, are just that strings (tines on an EP) are struck by a hammer. The vibrations are captured by a pick-up. Seems obvious now. So I guess very different from a synthesizer. But slapping a nice moog filter on a Fender Rhodes might be awesome.
A MOOG is subtractive synthesis. You start with everything and filter out what you don’t want.
An ORGAN is additive synthesis. You start with nothing and add harmonics to get the sound you want. That is what the drawbars on a Hammond do. The tabs on organs are just “patches” of drawbar settings. (there are a series of electro mechanical ‘oscillators’ in a tone wheel organ and a gang of octave divided oscillators in an electronic organ. (We are talking analog here, that digital stuff is all just codes and algorithms until it hits the output!)
Oh, and Rhodes have string like tines, Wurlitzers have flat tines I do believe.
There is a music store here in town with a couple of 88’s and at least 5 73’s and 2 Wurlies for sale. (I was there today, they also had 4 Hammonds.) They are so long on Rhodes, they are ready to DEAL.
(but so does the whitewash / electric blue VGer)
