museslave wrote:You know, there really isn't anything about the Prodigy that gives it a sound unique, distinctive, or recognizeable (specially in a band context) to make it worthy of pursuance.
I'm sure it's a fine synth, and of course, it has a Moog filter... worthy of having and using... but not worthy of worship.
Well maybe not worship but I can see that this person just can't get a sound with a fake korg that a prodigy can make easily. I've played them and imho the virtual filters just don't come anywhere near a Moog sound. The advice of getting a virtual synth that actually is trying to sound like a Moog isn't a bad idea if the goal is to gig with it. Maybe that Creamware virtual Minimoog thing?
museslave wrote:
The Prodigy and the Rogue, which are the most popular to people trying to get the Mini sound (and failing, unfortunately), came out when Moog was on the decline, and building their synths out of crap. They are cheaply made cheap synths. They have a bizarre hype surrounding them that is more about them being affordable Moogs than about actually having a distinctive sound.
I agree, but they were then and still are much cheaper than a mini. Though so many bands used prodigys, rogues, sources etc. that you can't say for sure that they indeed were tyring to get a minimoog sound per se.
museslave wrote:Apart from the "Moog sound" generated by the Moog filter, this is just a low end synthesizer... any synth that can function like a standard analog synth will sound like it... and if you want the Moog filter sound, get a MoogerFooger low-pass filter... POW... immediate Moog sound.
An imediate more or less cool sound yes - but until you drive that filter pedal with keyboard and envelope voltage it's not going to sound like a synth with a moog filter in it it's going to sound like someone's putting external audio signal through a moog filter, it's just not going to have the same dynamic sound at all.
museslave wrote:I would take a one-osc Micromoog over the Prodigy any day... that one oscillator does not outweigh the superior sound, modulation functionality and design of the Micromoog.
While the Micromoog is a cool little synth, it's a really bad substitution for a prodigy/rogue/mg-1 etc. because the filter is one of the furthest from the "Moog" sound (though it might likely do a much better job than a fake Korg) and as you say, it doesn't have the two osc sound. I mean if you don't really care if it doesn't sound much like you were going after why not spend even less money for even more modulation with some other more or less vintage synth like a waldorf pulse or something. But of course people want a particular sound and you can only come to a given point with something else. Making a sound vaguely like it "with more flexibility" sounds great unless you just want to make those certain sounds you really want to make.
