Truth be told, I wouldn’t go to pieces over it, if it’s just a rumor. While I’m sure a cheaper monosynth is important to everyone else here, it’s much less important to me. As much as I truly adore Moog synths, I’ve got what I need, for now.
I imagine many of the rest of you do, as well. Just an idea.
hmm i take it you have a voyager and it does everything you need?
yeah i can see where your coming from but i think that there would be people out there that already have a voyager (if i had one i’d also fit into this catagory) that would want to have the voyager set up in the home studio, and use the smaller, less expensive, more expendable synth out when gigging and jamming and stuff. 3 grand is too much to have some drunk spill beer on it or knock it over or any of the things that can happen to gear out on the town, even if nothing like that happens if you play in pubs a lot then your constantly exposing your synth to smoke.
and then there’s the people who can’t afford a voyager (like me), and the guitarists who use the moogerfooogers that are interested in getting a synth but don’t want to spend that much on a secondary instrument, owners of the etherwave pro who want to use the ep to control a synth but not one at the price of the voyager.
I think they’d be mad not to make this rumored cheaper synth, I hope for the sake of all who i have mentioned (including myself) that the rumor is true.
well, for the poor uk people the thing would have to get a different name without the moog logo anyway, along the lines of “bobby’s sidekick by bob moog” or something.
unless that guy can be convinced to cave. like with candy. or ice cream. or haggis.
Sounds like a rumor to me. If your read the original thread that started all this the person says he learned it from “a mail from an other guy”. Hmmmmm…not too convincing. Doesn’t sound too truthful to me, but sometimes rumors are based on some fact…
Not to rain on anyone’s parade, it would be sweet, but don’t get your hopes up until more info is leaked.
Probably a hoax…
my response from moog (which i posted) was that it was ‘just a rumor’… but! they didnt say it was untrue
[fingers crossed]
There is no use in contacting Moog. They, like any company, are very protective over when products are revealed. I remember a month or two before the new MF-104z was revealed someone posted an email they had seen that was from a online Moog dealer describing the new pedal. The thread was almost immediatly deleted by the moderators, thats how I knew that it was true. Now, if this thread is deleted, you will know the rumors are true 
But we haven’t described it.
hey just as i was writing this i got a message from an other guy describing the new synth
he said that the new monosynth will feature two oscilators, with the variable waveshape sync and fm, one lfo, one filter and two ADSRs. it will only have one vca so mono only and won’t have any memory, but will feature an array of cv inputs and outputs on the right side of the control panel (kinda like the Korg ms 20) sounds cool
will post a picture soon 
The RME is the moog you all are looking for.
And the Voyager is cheaper for a moog synth when you compare to moog prices from the 60’s and 70’s.
60’s-70’s Moog synths were for the most part bought by profesional musicians(making $$$), school music programs, and the ocasional electronic/sound nerd with money, without someone to spend it on.
In the 80’s places like Guitar Canter, Sam Ash, and other chains started shifting the focus from the pro muscian to the beginner and hobbyist. That causd a chain reaction to produce cheaper instruments from the old flagship instrument makers like Fender(Squire strat), Roland(SH, TB series), Korg(MS series) etc…
It seems like everone who want’s the cheaper Moog syntheisizer does not take into cosideration what is involved in making a quality synthesizer. If you want cheap you can still get a fantastic Prodgy, Micro, Source, Rouge, MG-1, etc… for WELL under $1000
When you say you want to have a cheaper synth from Moog.
How much do you want to spend anyways???
The re-release of the MF-104 was a rumor for a while too. And now we have the 104z and the 104SD. I’m sure Moog doesn’t intend on making only one synth and that’s it. Moog made several before so it seems that making less expensive gig and intro synths would make sense.
I made this big mistake today of verbalizing my desire to “perhaps” purchase another synth. Oh boy she pointed at the 5 in the studio and reminded me of the ones downstairs in “storage”, looks like more gear has got to go just incase a new poly moog does come into being or maybe a PEK sneeks into the studio in the middle of the night.
wouldn’t be surprised if they came out with something totally raw & off the wall like a ill monosynth & wind-controller package…man, someone needs to put some serious jazz into THAT potentially incredible invention!!!
OH! A DRUM MACHINE…That sh*t would be fly as hell! with CV and MIDI…forget it… would KILL Vermona in a heartbeat… They could call it:
The Moog Boom or something… I dunno…um…not so good with names today…
I definitely foresee amazing things to come…be patient children. Play with the toys you have, get the ones available and get into some music! All this anticipation is a subtle torture for me…no fruits grow on that tree… but I suppose MOOG reads these, uses a few idears hear & there…
I agree a Moog drum machine would be incredible and unexpected.
Besides the drum trigger I don’t believe they ever had a drum product?
is a drum machine really necessary? just sample the drum sounds you generate with the voyager. play the sounds with pads on some groove sampler.
best would be a new moog modular. (not necessary either but way more fun i think)
Considering how (with the exception of the Voyager) most of Moog Music’s products are 180 degrees from the Moog products made in the 60’s and 70’s, it’s actually quite logical. A drum machine with analog circuits, like the Roland CR-78, TR-606, TR-808 and TR-909 machines could be widely accepted by the techno market.
I’ve read that the 808 and 909 have almost been “oversampled” over the last twenty years, or so. Considering that there seem to be plenty of modeling drum machines and modules, I think the market already exists. The Moog name could be the selling point, though.
Think: “Moog drum machine! Moog drum machine! Moog drum machine! WHOOOOOOOOOOO!”
Wow. Is that all? I’ll just go over my Voyager (non-existent) and write some drums patches. Then I’ll put them in my sampler (also non-existent) and then go the processes of writing all the sequences. That would be way easier than having a drum machine. Good Call. Modular would be sweet, but would have almost no market.
Sorry for being an a ss.
-Tyler2000-
I really can’t imagine Moog making a drum machine. I mean, seriously… what would be on it? Samples? Do the Moog technicians have great ears for samples? What would a sampled-drum machine have to do with what Moog does well? If it wasn’t samples, would it be analog drum sounds? Well, I know many of you are into the current electronic music, but even so… limited market for instrumentation… why go to the trouble of inventing a new drum machine with analog sounds for such a small market (and a small target audience for that market)?
And, let’s face it… with the advent of inexpensive samplers and computer/software… the drum machine has become obsolete to everyone but collectors or those pursuing a sound that has already happened. (I myself have a Thomas Bandmaster from 1967… but it has a very limited application)
What would a Moog drum machine do that would separate it from the bazillions of now-historical-curiosity drum machines that litter the pawn shops?
well, my thought was that it would be a ‘drum synth’ of sorts with lots of tweakability…a similar idea to Vermona’s box…I just know Moog would take something like that to another level. There aren’t many true analog drum-synths out there, actually. Oh, and no the Drum machine is NOT obsolete. Maybe it is for you. That’s like saying the analog synth is obsolete, this being the era of the VA, observing its current successes… Or that VINYL is dead, & “why are turntables still being made?” being in the “digital” age we are now in…
You’d rather create those sounds on your Voyager? Great! I have a Voyager, and I love to create percussion sounds on it, but I’d like to be able to tweak multiple drum parameters at one time, while having the feel of triggering & sequencing the sounds on my MPC2000. Also, not everyone wants everything in one box! A great many of us still prefer separate pieces of dedicated gear to do specific things, especially if you’re considering a jamming/live situation. Naw, a drum-synth by MOOG would totally fly. They’d totally be expanding their market…think of all the Hip-Hop producers, Trance, Techno, Experimentalists, Electro-Fusionists, Ambient musicians and MORE, who could benefit from a high quality, American hand-made Drum-machine-synth… Moog just has to make sure they do it perfectly, that’s the only clincher. Oh man, especially if they include patch memory on that!!! WHAT!?!
I’m sorry but that sh*t would be off the hook…
…asked to Moog Music about these rumors…
…and their answer was:
“At this point it is just a wishful rumor.”
…kind of sad…