Moog Music Forum

Ok...what else could Vo Power be used for? I had this idea in my head of adding Vo Power to a Fender Rhodes...or something similar. What if Moog built a new type of electric piano with Vo Power built into it? Would anyone be interested in such a thing for, say, around $4,000? The new Fender Rhodes pianos start around $2500, so would the addition of Vo Power be worth the extra cost? Remember, the tines would have to be custom made with the same alloy as the Moog strings, while being thin enough to be vibrated by the pickups. Is this even feasable? Am I the only one who would buy such a thing? What are your thoughts?

I think a moog clavinet would probably work better than a rhodes kind of thing, just because they use strings and moog already has experience with strings. The problem with building such a thing would be the enormous increase of complexity. It would be a poly synth, just with real strings for oscillators. This sounds very expensive. If the price per string is the same as the guitar, then it would cost $8000 per octave.

Moog Clavinet

I would do a lot of such a beast, things I hope my wife would never find out about.

Moog guitar technology in a Clav.

Something like that just might get Funk music outlawed.

jeepo wrote:I think a moog clavinet would probably work better than a rhodes kind of thing, just because they use strings and moog already has experience with strings. The problem with building such a thing would be the enormous increase of complexity. It would be a poly synth, just with real strings for oscillators. This sounds very expensive. If the price per string is the same as the guitar, then it would cost $8000 per octave.

Yeah, it would be expensive...but it would be incredibly awesome! I'm all for something like this...if they could keep it around 5k...

I am going to bring back the clavinet. I want to build custom clavs with exotic . Its a shame they quit making them, and a surprise no one has improved on the design.

Unfiltered wrote:I am going to bring back the clavinet. I want to build custom clavs with exotic . Its a shame they quit making them, and a surprise no one has improved on the design.

Are you accepting pre-orders now? If not please PM me when you start, because I want one!

After thinking about the matter long and hard I decided I would sell a kidney to buy a moog clavinet.

Voltor07 wrote:Ok...what else could Vo Power be used for? I had this idea in my head of adding Vo Power to a Fender Rhodes...or something similar. What if Moog built a new type of electric piano with Vo Power built into it? Would anyone be interested in such a thing for, say, around $4,000? The new Fender Rhodes pianos start around $2500, so would the addition of Vo Power be worth the extra cost? Remember, the tines would have to be custom made with the same alloy as the Moog strings, while being thin enough to be vibrated by the pickups. Is this even feasable? Am I the only one who would buy such a thing? What are your thoughts?

Please pardon my ignorance... what is "Vo Power?"

Paul Vo is the guy who designed that pickup system and the man behind the Moog guitar. I think the term "Vo Power" is the mechanism behind the infinite sustain/mute.

Eric

I think Moog should stick to what they specialize in. And release a self contained discrete poly synth. Capable of polyphony or the option of multitimberal sounds.

amen!

kidgloves2 wrote:I think Moog should stick to what they specialize in.

You mean innovative interesting instruments, like a moog piano?

jeepo wrote:

kidgloves2 wrote:I think Moog should stick to what they specialize in.

You mean innovative interesting instruments, like a moog piano?

I too, would love a polysynth. I believe that most of us would. But, Moog isn't just a synthesizer company. They never have been. Bob Moog himself would probably have been proud of the Moog Guitar, and I believe that, like me, he would try to discover other ways of implementing the technology into other instruments. Having said that, a Moog clavinet or electric piano, perhaps one that uses reeds rather than tines, would be amazing!

Voltor07 wrote:

jeepo wrote:

kidgloves2 wrote:I think Moog should stick to what they specialize in.

You mean innovative interesting instruments, like a moog piano?

I too, would love a polysynth. I believe that most of us would. But, Moog isn't just a synthesizer company. They never have been. Bob Moog himself would probably have been proud of the Moog Guitar, and I believe that, like me, he would try to discover other ways of implementing the technology into other instruments. Having said that, a Moog clavinet or electric piano, perhaps one that uses reeds rather than tines, would be amazing!

Polysynths are cool, and a polymoog definitely sounds like fun, but I think polychaining SP's is a reasonable enough solution. Maybe they should make a cabinet for poly SP rigs with a full sized keyboard.

Wouldn't reeds make it more of an organ? And acoustic? That'd be interesting, an acoustic moog, not to mention how awesome it would be to have a moog that works after 2012. I have a theory that tubes are also 2012 proof, maybe moog should make an all tube synth. I wonder what a tube ladder filter would sound like.

Polychaining SP's is cool, but how about making it like a Dave Smith instrument and have one group of knobs control all voices instead of each voice having their own dedicated knobs. That way you can have a smaller footprint. Or make it like the little phatty and have an LED button for each voice, but one knob per section. You can make have individual voice mode or global mode.