definately looks like a moog pot with an LED collar.
Maybe thats the product there.
Maybe its just a moog shuttlewheel with a usb interface for your computer.
nah, I think that using the words "Big announcement about a little addition to the product range" and "hip new product" means that its gonna be a product thats gonna be pushed heavily (can only really do that with something thats affordable) about a little addition to the range. Judging the success and accessability of budget synths like the MicroKorg and the Alesis Micron and the Novation K Station, its hopefully going to be a product similar to them to bring Moog back to the masses.
Theres discussion on various websites (
http://www.retrothing.com/2006/01/a_low_cost_moog.html) about ways of creating a low cost moog using some nifty technology (theres also talk on there saying that Bob Moog actually walked over and had a look at those funky chips at one of the other trade shows a few years ago). And also the infamous Amos (who works for Moog) is around and about on the net talking (in riddles mostly) about the new Moog product. Theres a great quote that he posted on MusicThing which says "Hello, 'Amos' here...
for future reference, my name really is Amos and I do work at Moog Music.
I am here to say that Good Things are coming from Moog, and the exact specifics will be divulged at NAMM.
Perhaps I got carried away, on that heady day when Dave Bryce dropped the news about the mono evolver keyboard...
Still, I try to remember what my grandad always used to tell me-- "loose lips synth chips!"
-at least that's how it sounded after he lost his dentures.
"
Synth chips? nice. Looking pretty promising.
I hope to Christ that its not a controller keyboard. But I dont think thats too likely as it defeats the whole idea of Moog being sound pioneers.
And I also hope that its not "Hardware controller for Moog endorsed software" a la Korg Legacy.