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It looks kind of like it could sit on a floor and be played with the feet. Taurus pedals?

yeah it does kind of look like that but it is a panel and the thing that looks almost like a pedal can't be moved up or down.

it could be taurus pedals, or even another moogerfooger (we don't know how BIG that panel actually is yet). At this point though, I'm pretty sure it's a synth keyboard, myself.

i think that 2nd clue is ONLY a shot of one single wooden side, not necessarily how things would look on the finished product. i'm sure we'll see knobs/switches protruding from the top panel, and a metal chassis on the back of that panel (maybe even filling in that boomerang curve).

Ya never know! If it's pedals... we'll see them protruding out from the front, past the wooden panel.

I bleeping hope it's an analog mono-synth with a trip res filter. That would be fab.

Man, I bet it is some taurus nonsense.

Bob (rip) said he would never make another taurus. I bleeping hope moog don't screw this up now.

Hm, yeah, possibly it's a Taurus thing, eh? The side panels do look a bit similar. Was the Taurus very popular?

Was the Taurus very popular?

At NAMM numerous people (like tons actually) came to the Moog Booth saying "when are you guys gonna remake the Taurus pedals?" ... I don't think it will ever happen, especially if Bob swore off ever making them again... But people really want em'..

Another big request at Namm was a Fooger that would change a guitar signal into a mono phonic OSC type of sound.. With a wave shape selector switch.. That would be cool too, but like Brian Kehew said "No one ever made those things very well. and most guitar player would try to play chords through it and it just sounded terrible" .. Korg made a product like this , guess it didn't do well. But if Moog did it, it might be revolutionary...


Cyril Lance is a guitar player and a physics engineer, bet he could make it work !!!

Nick Putrid wrote:Another big request at Namm was a Fooger that would change a guitar signal into a mono phonic OSC type of sound.. With a wave shape selector switch.. That would be cool too, but like Brian Kehew said "No one ever made those things very well. and most guitar player would try to play chords through it and it just sounded terrible" .. Korg made a product like this , guess it didn't do well. But if Moog did it, it might be revolutionary...

Cyril Lance is a guitar player and a physics engineer, bet he could make it work !!!

I emailed Craig Anderton about a design of this nature and he replied a few months later saying that it was a very tricky design! The ARP Avatar was supposed to do this but instead it helped to bring down the company.

That's not to say that a quality pitch-to-voltage converter can't be built for a guitar (Roland has their pickup but i used it with my guitar and it stank )and since Cyril Lance is a guitar player he just may be up to the task.

There has yet to be designed a pitch-to-CV converter that works well for an complicated signal such as a guitar. While pitch-to-CV converters can work pretty well with simple periodic input signals (i.e. sine, square, etc), a guitar signal is just to complex and unpredictable to track very well. It's not a matter of "no one has designed one yet", but an matter of possibility. I hate to say it, but I don't think its possible by any current means!


...What if it did work, though. Can you imagine playing a Voyager with a bass guitar? YIKES! I'd be in heaven.

not a taurus.

not enough people are interested.... however..... below may be something like it... dual osc monosynth with big data entry knob etc....

having seen and had a small bash at the original pedals AND also seen a bob moog interview at RLmusic's website where the taurus pedals were discussed at length, at no point did he say he wouldnt make them again. In fact, he was very interested about what and why people find them so desirable after all these years.

The shape of the wood makes it look like it could easily house a modern version, although im not sure the wood woudl be strong enough to hold up to repeated bashing on stage etc.

the taurus II wern't so meaty in sound, as they were based on the rogue, but the programming part of the unit was on a pole, whereas the original version had everything on the floor unit.

either way, whatever it is will be a success. A memorymoog type product woudl be nice, but given the cost of the voyager, it would possibly be prohibitvely expensive for most people, which is a shame

OK,

This new product is definitely not a new MoogerFooger. Why would Moog make one this shape when all of the other 6 are of the same shape? It wouldn't make any sense to start making odd-shaped MFs. It is something more like the Taurus, a sequencer, or a less expensive synth.

www.rlmusic.co.uk

have a look for yourself. Bob spends a good few minutes askign about the taurus concept and his eyes widened in surprise or shock when he finds out how much they go for now!

musicnonstop wrote:not a taurus.

not enough people are interested.... however..... below may be something like it... dual osc monosynth with big data entry knob etc....

woah, someone is proficient at CAD. hats off to ya meladdo!

I hope it hasn't got that awful blue colour scheme though!