Moog Music Forum

He was being sarcastic. But there's clearly some sort of anti-Western bias that is now being applied to polyphonic synthesis. Sort of interesting, in its own weird way...

I hope Moog makes the best polysynth ever and a ton of money too.

Yeay capitalism!

I think the Obama administration has infiltrated our thread.

Gotta agree with Granny Hawkins on this one!

Okay, I'm done. But anyone who wants a serious discussion about polyphony, sonority, harmony as it applies to Western or Indian music, or synthesizers please message me.

Before going, could you please explain the connection between polyphony and captalism?

After reading the last 2 pages, I realize how far this thread is from where it started haha. Especially after "Right Said Fred" came into the picture



Just wanted to mention though.. the reason why a Sitar sounds most interesting to most of our inferior western ears.. is because it is polyphonic. The drones under the frets create harmonic accompaniment. Your not plucking them directly, but the sound is a polyphonic sound. Otherwise without them it'd sound like a loose one string'd banjo.

How the heck did capitalism get dragged into this?

I gotta go with Subtronik one this one.

Not to mention, todays synth and keyboard market is HIGHLY made up of producers who make dance music, and hip hop, beats.. of course you can find them in every genre.. but you go into a hip hop producers studio and they almost undoubtedly have something analog. Beleive me, we wanna get our hands on a polyphonic Moog. Our tracks are based around Chords, Bass lines and melodies.. but almost every track has some kind of chord accompaniment in the background during chorus's etc... now I can go over to my nord lead and use some VA synths to do it... or if I have a poly Moog... which one do you think I'd rather use?


sure there's the DSI... but as long as I can dream of one.. I'll hold out for a poly Moog.

"Just wanted to mention though.. the reason why a Sitar sounds most interesting to most of our inferior western ears.. is because it is polyphonic. The drones under the frets create harmonic accompaniment. Your not plucking them directly, but the sound is a polyphonic sound. Otherwise without them it'd sound like a loose one string'd banjo."

exactly like the filtered oscillators. Like I said, a monophonic analog synth is musically polyphonic

Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:39 pm

Ahem. Anyways....

Perhaps we can now turn our inferior western ears, eyes and minds back to our original topic.

We all know that Moog Music peruses this forum for ideas and a sense of what Moog users need or want. Hopefully they'll learn from this thread (and others) that there is a tremendous desire (among westerners) for a polyphonic synthesizer. All the more, since the Andromeda A6 is no longer in production. This probably pushes the Prophet '08 into first polyphonic place. But we want, not just another instrument, but one typically Moogish, typical in the sense of Moog quality and Moog sound. They know better than any of us exactly what that means.

It would definitely serve our purposes to continue asking for and conversing about a new polyphonic synthesizer from Moog.

panamabirthcanal wrote:Okay, I'm done. But anyone who wants a serious discussion about polyphony, sonority, harmony as it applies to Western or Indian music, or synthesizers please message me.

i think i get your point. and perspective

edit:

with exception of that genital part ('cause I got both):lol:
i think your slightly to cruel to people here on moog forum. and that IS a wrong way man, trust me, I'm from eastern Europe.

simplicity is hard to understand ..

oh, and by the way, i want to say it now: the problems people have updating LP's new OS, are in my opinion created by all of us (or if you prefer to name your self a market, feel free to do so) wanting more than he (LP) already is: a nice simple mono synth.

don't you think the same thing could happen to moog music ?

hmmm...

now call me crazy, I'm used to it

anyway, panamabirthcanal, some of the words you have said did enlightened my way to music.thanks

Moog moving forward......


You guys have seen the movies (batman for instance) where stuff like this happens.

Heres someting that I envision, it would be totally neat.

For the next 15-20 years or so, Moog continues to operate as they are now, pumping out great products. I imagine that at some point even Mr Buchla will leave us as well, Roger Arrick will then be an old head over there at the Dotcom factory....

Then, fresh out of some college's physics department emerge the Moog Brothers (grandchildren of Bob) and they arise to take ove the company and take synthesis to the next level following in Bobs footsteps and innovating as the Moog family of engineers always has (Moog Inc also Bobs late brother builds rocket engines, satellte componants, guided missle parts and medical supplies).


Wouldn't that be something?

Wow, no way. Bill Moog is Bob Moogs cousin.

I did not know that. Family of geniuses there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moog_Inc

One man worked for rockets and another for rock.

And yes, it would be awesome to own a Moog rocket powered analog synth!

I always thought that my Voyager tries to contact aliens:

Moog also worked on several space contracts and designed part of the liquid rocket engine propulsion systems on the Voyager space probes

Nicola -

Is that your Andromeda A6 video on Youtube? (I think I recognize your accent in print!) You're obviously quite a fan of the instrument, and must be very disappointed about its discontinuation.