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by EMwhite » Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:56 pm
A few points.
1. Thanks Mr. A. for finding the press on this. I knew it would be released to public today but strangely, Moog wasn't (and still hasn't) broken the news. As with Slim, some obscure outfit publishes the pics first!
2. I was relieved to see that I'm NOT going to be pressured into buying this. Since I already own T3, there isn't much for me... but then again to be honest, I can't stand getting down on the floor to stumble through the buttons and modes. Despite the power and the... um... power, T3 isn't exactly conducive to tweaking. I picked up a Novation SL25 MkII for all of the mapping required for tweaking but it's not the same.
3. I'm not bothered by the lack of presets, in fact, I'm with Eric, I like the looks of the knob arrangement. The hint of it being programable via Midi suggests that at a minimum, a sysex style 'push' of a preset is possible; and I really really like my Old School and Oberheim SEM as is.
4. I'm less inclined to want PolyChain a I am to have a simple built in function to accept a range or midi split, whereby you hold a key then press a Midi note which will mark the upper end of the range.
Finally, I would have loved to have patch points for the ins/outs. A pair of DB25s for future expansion would have been swell. Moog USED TO provide all of the ins/outs but these days, they do not. I like the openness of Tom's SEM and I think they could have easily wired in a .0156 header pin row to DB25.
Otherwise, it's a nice price, more affordable than SEM and DarkEnergy, offers a bit more on one hand but comes up short in some ways. Still tempted. Form factor wise, it would be handy if they could bolt up a kit to join this to a VX or CP for mounting; looks to be about the right size; hope that it is.
'76 Minimoog, Taurus 3, Oberheim FVS + Son of 2-voice; Sequential ProOne; Juno 106; Moog Model 15; Kurzweil 250; Hammond M3; and a handful of Fender Basses
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