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I'm a 40-something year old bass player in a classic/hard rock cover band. I recently joined the forums to track the progress of the Taurus 3 pedals that I ordered. Over the years, I have owned a set of Taurus 1s, 2 sets of Taurus 2s, 2 Prodigies and a Voyager electric blue. I was just ready to buy some VERY pricy Taurus 1s on Ebay when I happened to drop in on the Moog web site and learned about the T-3s. I'm really hoping they stay true to the original design - I need to be able to switch octaves and patches with my feet, as my hands are usually too busy playing bass to fiddle with any knobs. I also wish that Moog would go with a one-octave pedal board - they are a little easier to fit in a car with all the rest of my stuff, and I have always found the one octave range to be more than enough to cover the Rush & prog songs we do. If you need more than an octave, thats what the octave footswitches are for. Let's hope Moog builds the Taurus monster we all know they are capable of building.

I'm a 52 year old drummer who has been playing around with synths on and off for the past 10 years or so. What has inspired me is that I really love playing with sounds! I can sit and tweak a drone long past the point that others would've moved on (moved out, sold the house, gone through three more hobbies!) Anyway, being the kind of guy who can sit and watch grass grow, I am very content to just sit and listen to what happens to the sound as I >s-l-o-w-l-y< turn a knob. Right now, I'm listening to a drone I set up a few days ago that has this really nice phasing characteristic; a kind of "thrum" sound that comes up about every three seconds or so. I started it playing as soon as I turned the synth on for the day, just to see how much it changes while the synth is warming up. I love to discover!

I am easily amused!

WOW mayidunk, ive played some pretty long and dragged out music before, i think the longest song we had was a bout an hour, but DAYS geez...my hat goes off to you...if i had a hat.

ColorForm2113 wrote:my hat goes off to you...if i had a hat.

You can borrow mine...that way we can take both our hats off to him.

Thanks guys, however I think the kudos may be a bit premature.

I created the drone a few days ago, but it hasn't been running for days. I had shut off the synth afterwards, and when I turned the synth on yesterday, I started the drone running again to see how it would change as the synth warmed up, about an hour at the most for that little experiment.

(EricK, if you're reading this, I too experienced the oscillators quickly coming into tune with each other, however the overall pitch of the synth still takes about a half-hour to come into tune.)

And so, while it can be said that I can watch grass grow, I too have my limits. But, hey, thanks anyway!

I know what you mean about slowly evolving drones lol.

Yes, Moog drones. Can't count how many times I've just and listened to two low, slightly dissonant VCOs just sit there and hum. Reminds me of a time a was kickin' it with some musician friends -- we were really stoned -- and I had the MG-1 making some noises like that. Everybody grabbed seats close to the PA speakers and sat, contented. "Whoooaaa..." would arise with a well-placed filter sweep.

Ah, youth.

Me? Well, my name's Jordan. I'm 26, I live in Seattle and am working on an Associate's in music performance at the college up in Shoreline. Not sure what I'm gonna do with it. My big brother played guitar when I was little, and naturally I wanted to be in his band. So I picked up drums. I've played drums, my primary instrument, for over half my life, and along the way picked up guitar and, finally, keyboards. Actually, this is how I became a "keyboardist": I became intrigued by synthesizers when I started listening to prog rock and fusion as a teenager (isn't that how it starts for everybody?), but I think what pushed it over the top was hearing Black Sabbath's "Who Are You?". Then I got my first analog, a Concertmate MG-1, from my sister (who owned it when it was new!). The obsession began.

Fast forward a few years, I joined a band with some friends who were into doing some ambitious stuff, as a percussionist. I brought the synth just for kicks. They eventually had me doing something synthy in every tune. Before long, we started thinking... "this needs an organ," or "this needs an electric piano." So I figured I'd better learn to play a piano.

I'm pretty much just trying to be as active of a musician as possible, and am currently involved in several projects. The above-mentioned band is still trying to put together an album. It's my ambition to make it my livelihood. There are many options to that end... even if one doesn't hit it big with a rock band. I just know that, ultimately, I don't want to do anything else with my life. But I guess, to some degree, that's true of all of us.

So here I am. Very pleased to be acquainted with y'all, and very happy to be a member of the board. Viva!

Thanks! Its a nice sentiment there. Everyone has had some unique stories and its nice to read about them.

SOmething interesting always brings us to creation of some kind, sometimes the journey can be accidental or one of destiny but the stories of how we each arrive where we are never fail to interest me.

Look forward to reading more!

Eric

Jauntimus Prime wrote:Everybody grabbed seats close to the PA speakers and sat, contented. "Whoooaaa..." would arise with a well-placed filter sweep.

U-huh! I wish I could take the Voyager back about 36 years. My whole life was all about "whoooaaa" back then!

Welcome to the forum.

Howdy Moog kiddies!

Lee here, 30 years of age. I like Buddhism, reading, and gadgetry. Spent most of my life involved with music. When most kids were playing with GI Joe, I was busy obsessing over Alice Cooper, black magic, and horror flicks. Oh, the sweet life of an innocent 4 year old.

At 6 years old I picked up the drums and spent a lot of time scrutinizing Cars and Rush records. My father fancied himself many a cocktail, so I began sitting in with bar bands around town.

By the time I was a teenager, I lived behind the drum kit. Bands, punk and metal ones took up a lot of my time. Musically, my tastes were all over the map, always leaning towards the darker arty side of things. When I was 13 or 14 (and on lots of acid) I was introduced to Alien Sex Fiend (I think it was that live record) and Skinny Puppy's "Too Dark Park." It was then that my obsession with electronics (synths and sampling) began, growing more and more into experimental stuff. It wasn't long before I was spending all my money on gear and Throbbing Gristle and Crass records.

There are so many artists other than the ones I've mentioned that changed the way I thought about music and life during those years. Some of them are Coil, Brian Eno, Rudimentary Peni, Kraftwerk, Suicide, Fad Gadget, Devo, Brainiac, just to name a few.

The Greeks were right, music is in fact magical. While music "theory" can explain some of this, there is something much more powerful going on within the numbers on which tonal music is based. Atonal music, such as tone row and concrete music, confirm this. Time and space can be defeated by texture and timbre. I could go on for days.

 

Chuck Norris wrote:

OMG, he's so awesome he's speechless!!

Chuck Norris wrote: 

mayidunk, is this you? Who let this guy in here? I'm surprised the servers didn't explode! Who would've guessed we could have Kevin Lightner AND Chuck Norris on the same forum? Come to think of it, where's maskin? Chuck Norris has pwned the thread with his silence!

Well if Chuck is here now and the place might explode, I guess I can always leave.

Kevin Lightner wrote:Well if Chuck is here now and the place might explode, I guess I can always leave.

Well, it seems this Chuck Norris is a fake, as you posted a bit below him, and the forums are still here. So stay a while! We're always glad to have you here, Kevin! But this phony Chuck Norris needs to go. I'm sure he'll get roundhouse kicked sooner or later.