Moog Music Forum

OysterRock wrote:

theglyph wrote:The microkorg has wooden side panels! It's better than no wood at all.

Even if its cheapo wood, you got to have SOME! Can you imagine the Micromoog without that awful pseudo-wood sticker stuff? Even THAT crap is better than no wood.

Leave the Micro Alone! Its got wood in there!
Hehehe keep in mind that the Micro was created as a cheaper alternative to the mini.........hmmm.
Id love to see a new micro with the "open system" to let it mate with my vintage one.

Still waiting to find outif my Voyager left the damn factory yet.
ARRGH

theglyph wrote:

Boeing 737-400 wrote:I must admit I don't like going through the Voyager's menu to access certain features. The only new additions I've found useful in the software updates are the keys for entering patch names, and the transpose function.

It confuses me going through menus. Surely I'm not the only one?

I feel like there are hidden features!!

UPUPDOWNDOWNLEFTRIGHTLEFTRIGHT BA Start! 30 extra presets!

up up down down left right left right b a b a select start and you get duophonic tones with infinate voices
bwahaha
ContraMoog

EricK wrote: Leave the Micro Alone! Its got wood in there!
Hehehe keep in mind that the Micro was created as a cheaper alternative to the mini.........hmmm.

I was saying that the pseudo-wood is BETTER than NO wood. There will always be a place in my heart for the Mircomoog, it was my first Moog (*sniff*)!

coldnews wrote:

OysterRock wrote:Moog is taunting us:
http://www.moogmusic.com/news.php?cat_id=104

"A new Moog, unveiled to the world."

Maybe I spoke too soon

exactly! grrr...

Calling it "A moog" surely means its a synth? Would you say about your moogerfooger pedal "Look at my Moog"? hmmm... no.

I personally consider all moog products past and present as one collective entity: THE MOOG

THey fly in a cubile shaped spaeship destined to assimilate your studio.

We are Moog.
Resistance is Futile

OysterRock wrote:

EricK wrote: Leave the Micro Alone! Its got wood in there!
Hehehe keep in mind that the Micro was created as a cheaper alternative to the mini.........hmmm.

I was saying that the pseudo-wood is BETTER than NO wood. There will always be a place in my heart for the Mircomoog, it was my first Moog (*sniff*)!

Man i remember long ago my father gave up on the moog and it sat upstairs for years before i saved it and played with it.
I remember that if you turned the wrong switch or knob, it woudn't make a sound at all.
Never did i think I would want to be a part of the Moog Collective!
Eric

EricK wrote:Still waiting to find outif my Voyager left the damn factory yet.

It probably has......then got delivered to the wrong address. You neighbors
are probably jammin on it as you read this.
(hehheh...bwooaaahaha )


Regards,


Lawrence

I have been told by the boss if I want another Moog I have to sell one I already have - oh the pain of it all. I can tell you that it would never be the Voyager.

tunedLow wrote:I'd be shocked if they put out a VA. I'd bet this is going to be a 2 osc synth, no patch memory, smaller set of keys, with a sequencer.

And there's me thinking my ungigged Prodigy mk 2 is still going to be worth more than I paid for it in 1981!!

I think that Moog are reading this and having a laugh at us all.

They should probably post another clue to us poor sods to get us going again. Go on Moog. Do us a favour???

yeah what are you supposed to do when you don't have a life?

there's only so much you can do with one clue, and it isn't really much of a clue either.

18 days left to go!!!

the first clue was on the 8th right?

they'll probably have 2 more clues;

1 on the 15th another on the 22nd and then the product on the 29th

MisterModular wrote:I can't imagine it would be VA or digital. It looks kinda like Raymond Scott's Circle Machine. Instead of a crank you have a knob to twist. That would be cool. http://raymondscott.com/circle.html

I am probably dead wrong but I should at least get creative points.

You defintely get creative points from me I'm reading through some of the info at that site, very interesting stuff... plus the guy knew Dr. Moog, so who knows...?

Spike wrote:

MisterModular wrote:I can't imagine it would be VA or digital. It looks kinda like Raymond Scott's Circle Machine. Instead of a crank you have a knob to twist. That would be cool. http://raymondscott.com/circle.html

I am probably dead wrong but I should at least get creative points.

You defintely get creative points from me I'm reading through some of the info at that site, very interesting stuff... plus the guy knew Dr. Moog, so who knows...?

Well Don Buchla seems to be in the same neighborhood.

http://www.buchla.com/200e/250e.html

Actually what the moogmusic illustration looks like is what many people think is the ideal configuration if you use rotary encoders, in other words a sort of substitute for pots since they keep turning encoders as much as you want in either direction. Here's the logic. You can easily use normal pots if you don't have patch memory. But the experience is rarely perfect if you have patch storage. Look at the voyager. Whern you recall a patch the physical knobs no longer reflect the settings. Some people think replacing pots with rotary encoders with little led lights around them (like Clavia) could show you where every pot is after a patch change. It would probably cost more than a voyager to do a new synth full of knobs, but I bet they'd try a simpler synth with only a few or even one of these knobs.

yeah i think that sounds reasonable

when moog released the aniversary/electric blue, i thought the backlighting would be for this (to reflect the parameter setting in the patch memory) but then it wasn't.

someone said that the Oscar had this sort of thing?

nicholas d. kent wrote: Actually what the moogmusic illustration looks like is what many people think is the ideal configuration if you use rotary encoders, in other words a sort of substitute for pots since they keep turning encoders as much as you want in either direction. Here's the logic. You can easily use normal pots if you don't have patch memory. But the experience is rarely perfect if you have patch storage. Look at the voyager. Whern you recall a patch the physical knobs no longer reflect the settings. Some people think replacing pots with rotary encoders with little led lights around them (like Clavia) could show you where every pot is after a patch change. It would probably cost more than a voyager to do a new synth full of knobs, but I bet they'd try a simpler synth with only a few or even one of these knobs.

I think you hit the nail right on the head.....best guess i've heard so far

I was thinking rotary encoders too, stacked with a CV pot.

Match those with a step sequencer. With that you can encode CV changes in MIDI on the fly as you write sequences. Not be limited to pitch and mod wheels CV changes.

If they go the route Mackie did with their control surface you should get a scribble pad below every encoder so you can identify parameters.

I haven't read this entire thread, but it strikes me as a way to get a lot of brainstorming from users with a speculative thread as this.