I understand what you’re saying. Personally, I have difficulty playing polyphonic synthesizers. I have become too accustomed to playing fast synth solos that only work with monophony. Everything I play now is meant for monophony; when I express myself musically, it’s one note at a time. When I get the luxury of playing chords, I don’t know what to do. The only thing I can do is play some slow pad. Fast polyphony sounds too busy to me, but goddamn, the CS-80 has its purpose.
We all come from different backgrounds, and have different reasons for wanting or not wanting a poly.
I learnt guitar and was teaching professionally before I was 18. I moved onto piano, and eventually a ton of other instruments, before getting into production. For me, a poly Moog would help me bring to life so many things creatively that I have in mind. I am not one of these people who brings a moog on stage and plays lead lines… In fact I have absolutely no interest in that at all. I use my LP and Voyager for basses, effects, interesting sounds, multitracking/layering, etc… because so far I have’nt seen any other synth that can give me the tones and sounds I can get from them…
A poly Moog would give me the oppurtunity to bring to live so many idea I have… especially depending on what features are present. I’d love to see the day when I would be able to say goodbye to multitracking synth lines.
I’d like to know who doesn’t want a Moog poly, because they need to be burned at the stake.
I don’t WANT one…I NEED one! 
I’m guessing it would complete my life cycle.
It would complete my non-modular synth rig…now, my modular synth rig…that’s another story…I need to work on that in the meantime… 
I don’t like the idea of a Moog polyphonic. It’s not the right thing for Moog to do right now. Too much too soon.
The guitar wasn’t the right thing either but the T3 is amazing enough to make up for the guitar folly.
Forget the poly and focus on the gear the Moog crew are working on currently! You’ll be pleasantly surprised! 
Cheers,
Aaron
My goal is to have a nice Moog system. All the Moog instruments in this are part of the system and I reference them as 1 entity, The Moog. Great studio componants as well as great individual instruments.
One way that I want to go about this…the way that I think is the best for me, is to have the Voyager as a great lead, the T3 for Basslines, supplimented with several newly built Modusonics Moog modules (17 or so).
If Moog makes a polysynth, I will probably deem that I will have enough Moog instruments (Voyager, Micro, Taurus, Theremin, Polysynth) to do the job at which point I would invest in another companies modular setup With asmall eurorack modlar). A Moog polysynth would pretty much give me all that I would require from Moog, unless they just came up with a brand new crazy effect or controller and then I would consider it. I am amassing Moog strictly for its quality, its sonic integrity, it’s interconnectivity and its abillity to process virtually any frequency from any instrument and this is what makes Moog so special for me as tools in my arsenal to enhance my creations.
I am content with them doing business exactly as they are and based on what has been reported, their company is financially stable. They are doin something right and I am confident that they will do so.
We live in modern times where any amount of polyphony can be achieved with any amount of multitimbrality in any configuration limited only by one’s imagination. So why is the minimoog, a unitimbral, monophonic synthesizer, the most popular synth ever? And why did Moog choose to remake the minimoog, and not a polyphonic or even digital synthesizer? Because he knew what was up. If polyphony was the goal of analog synthesis, the Voyager would not exist. There are so many aspects of the sound to be tweaked, and why not build the ultimate sound. Speaking of the ultimate sound, the infinitely great sound, would you really want to add chord tones to it? Minimoogs are musically polyphonic (not the synth definition) which means they can play more than one tone at the same time and when you add harmonies, you are unable to set oscillators to different tones, or harmonies will not work. Why limit your sonic capability just so you can play chords. People who want moog to make a polysynth are most likely gear junkies who just want another piece of Moog gear. I personally think it would cheapen the image of the Voyager and take them in a direction void of progress. I think the goal of development should be real time user control of parameters.
Very good post.
Reading it made me think of the Nord G2. Very extremely powerful and deeply vast all digital poly synth.
I too think if not done right a Moog poly would cheapen the company image.
If done correctly, it will cost $8,000.
Remember, this is modern Moog people.
There are so many musicians who do not justify the price of the new Moog guitar.
Why buy an analog delay that cost as much as some people’s entire guitar rig?
They want how much for an expression pedal?!?
I can buy a Theremin for under $150 on ebay.
What does a CP-251 do and why is it almost $400???
Why buy a MuRF when the ZVex thing-a-ma-job does the exact same thing for under half the price??
There is absolutely no way I would pay that much for a Voyager when it is only a mono synthesizer!!!
Sure Moog could release a poly analog.
If it falls under the $8,000 tag, they fail.
There is no way Moog should release any poly in the range of the P08.
Feel the knobs on the DSI and then on the Voyager. Different worlds here people.
Those of you who really want a Moog poly should just buy a DSI, Virus Ti, or something and run it through 2 Moog LPFs.
… But wait… 2 Moog LPFs is an extra $500!!! 
Those of you who are crying for the Moog poly better be ready to put your money where your mouth is.
I for one would be extremely disappointed if moog made a poly that was in the price range of the Voyager.
Rickenbacker does not make a “cheap line” ala Squire or Epi… if you are going to do it do it right.
Quality through and through.
Think about it hard.
Do I want a Moog poly!!!
You bet your ass I do.
The only way Moog should release a poly is if the cheapest model is $8,000.
Anything less is a discrace to the company.
If you cannot afford it, great!!!
We live in a time where there are alternatives!!!
I am “friends” with forum members who do not own a 104z delay. Some use the Electro-Harmonix Memory Man instead.
A good share of them are better musicians than me. I really enjoy the demos and music they share with the community.
God bless them, and God bless Moog Music.
I’ll never buy a Fooger, a Taurus or a Moog guitar, I’m not interested in them.
The only other piece of gear I want for my setup is an analog polysynth, and I’ll buy the best one on the market when I’m ready. If that’s a DSI, then that’s what I’ll buy. But if Moog makes one I know I’ll buy it because they do analog so well.
AH,
Were also living in a day and age where theres a lot of stuff going on. First, Music Education in the schools is going down the tubes. 2, this is an era where young children are coming up in the computer dominated society downloading music at rates of such high frequency they don’t realize that musicians actually get paid to make those songs. 3. We also are in a particular time period where sound recording software is as common as zippers and buttons on your pants and as a result, hundreds of thousands of people can sit at home and with a relatively minute investment can get the tools needed to make cd quality audio.
For a lot of those people, a software synth is all they need and Moog is ridiculous to think that anyone would spend 3000 on a Voyager, or 6000 for a guitar much less [whats likely to be way more than] 8000 for a wonderfully crafted polysynth.
When has Moog ever really dissapointed people? as a community we asked for a more affordable mono, and they delivered with the Phatty. A lot of demand was around for a new minimoog and tey delivered with the Voyager. They had the demand for the Taurus and they delivered (well my delivery is still pending). Moog won’t engage in the launch of a project thats going to be moot.
I used to think that same thing. I originally thought that Foogers were just marketed strictly to guitar players and I had no interest in them. Then, the first ever sonic infinity DVD was sent out to people who requested one and I saw each one of them demonstrated. The Ringmod was the first to catch my eye because of the tremelo. The tremelo lights in my Rhodes are burned out so I saw that the 102 did great tremelo, then I got on the website and heard the ringmod demo with an electric piano and I was sold. I also saw how the interconnectivity of the foogers was and thats what peaked my interest. I also loved the percussiveness of the Murf and Im going to get that soon.
At that point I thought, I don’t even care about the control voltage processor (cp251) until i figured out what IT would do, and I can totally see the need for at leat 2 of them (in my system).
My only interest in Moog before that was to get a Voyager to replace my Micro because there wasn’t a Phatty at that point. This was…2004.
The main reason I don’t want Foogers is because it would inevitably turn into a semi modular system, then a full modular system, then my wife will leave me.
Seriously though, I have no desire to connect other devices to my synths.
I can see that.
Eric
A very good analogy to me is a painter. Does a painter use one color on his brush or many colors? It depends, obviously, but to use one rich beautiful color is much easier to paint with than several colors on the same brush. The one color, with all of its dense mixture of colors can move in any direction. If you have more than one color on the brush, the colors can only move linearly, or the colors will cross each other, which can be interesting, but you have to make sure that each color can mix with the other, or muddiness will ensue. This is what i hear in polysynths. You have extremely rich colors in single notes, with all of the resonance sounds so good at times when the harmony is perfect, but is so limiting because the colors cross over each other in bad ways most of the time. This is also my musical philosophy, while I do use harmonies with clavinet, hammond, and wurlitzer, which are my backgrounds on the canvas, my Moogs are my paintbrushes.
You need to watch bob ross, he routinely put more than 1 color on a brush to make happy little trees and rocks. Very nice stuff.
I been watching his afro since I was a kid. A tree is easy, because it is a harmony. What about a melodic animal or a person, try that with more than one color.
I have the desire to connect my synths to other devices. 
(I never did want to end up with all the stuff I’ve got, but I find uses for it all!)