Moog Werkstatt

[voguemachine]

I'm not sure if any of this has spilled onto this forum yet, if it has I apologize.

Moog has posted a few instagram photos of their "werkstatt" project, the
"custom unreleased synthesizer" for the engineer tickets at moogfest.




Think these will be available as kits to us unavailable to attend?
that would be great...

-VM

[dvalladt]

They posted a more realised picture today:

[EMwhite]

Forget about the MS-20 'kit'; if they sell this at reasonable price, they will sell hundreds if not thousands of units ...

Every kid with a Euro or CV controlled synth will want one ...

[Kenneth]

The Moogertron

[misterpete]

What are we looking at? Do the CV i/o look like 3.5mm euro style mini jacks to you?

[_DemonDan_]

What are we looking at? Do the CV i/o look like 3.5mm euro style mini jacks to you?

To me they look like holes to insert solid bare wire, solder-tinned wire strands, or a thin probe.

[Vsyevolod]

I see something that looks like a 20 pin female connector jack. Either that or a pin jack I/O.

Stephen




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[latigid on]

It's a 100 mil header socket. You would patch it with breadboard cables:

[wacopacco]

I think this is just for moogfest. If they did a production run I'm sure they would use 1/8 cables for the patching.

This kind of thing is something is love to see moog try. Well, this and a prodigy again.

[latigid on]

I hope they never use 1/8th inch cables, too many incompatibility issues. I'd be okay with 3.5 mm for Eurorack patching mayhem .

[EMwhite]

Could just be a small PCB with a header on the bottom and a row of broken out mini jacks on top; FWIW, the Euro crowd is about 20x the MU / MOTM market if you count @sses in seats and not revenue; if you count the sale of all Moog synths which take 1/4" as part of MU, then maybe you're even as there have been 100,000 units sold, counting all modern Moog synths and all Foogers (guessing).

So offer a minijack or a 1/4" adapter to plug in there and now you've got something. Sell it for cost + round up to next $50 and sell direct and you've got 1000 unit's sold easy. Call it macaroni (or $149). What kid wouldn't want a control panel wired up to their Euro rig with the most common set of hands on controls right there including transpose adjustment of a sequence or drone that may be running elsewhere via pushbutton pitch-board.

Or sell it without case, no power supply or add-on (just the board) for $99, no support unless DOA (30 day). I'd buy that.

Gotta figure, the least expensive MoogerFooger has more components, comes in fancy steel pedal w/PS, wood ends, calibrated, etc and street is $280. Take out the retailer mark-up and overhead and this is doable in my estimation.

( yes, I'm an armchair product manager )

[wacopacco]

I hope they never use 1/8th inch cables, too many incompatibility issues. I'd be okay with 3.5 mm for Eurorack patching mayhem .

A lot of eurorack's have 1/8th, but it's just a preference thing at that point.

I wonder if it could use a card, like the music easel?

[latigid on]

A lot of eurorack's have 1/8th, but it's just a preference thing at that point.

My subtle dig there was that 1/8 inch = 3.175 mm, whereas the Eurorack "minijack" standard is 3.5 mm. Just like 1/4 inch is 6.35 mm. Anyhoo...

I wonder if it could use a card, like the music easel?

No problem, just solder some male headers to this and you're good to go:




http://www.dallaslogic.com/prod_cmp1001.htm



You could make a few different "patches" like this, just as the Easel does.

[latigid on]

Btw, this is not going to be geared towards a soldering-type kit. Way too much SMT for that. I'd guess you would basically assemble the case and calibrate it.

Moogfest starts today so we will know soon!

[EricK]

There's this video of the workshop...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI17qAYs4xM