I'm a little bit confused, or frustrated, or angry if you will that the direction to add MIDI control directly to the fooger line has been breached. It's probably the right direction to keep them in business, and competitive, since most music these days is created with a computer controlled tempo and foogers can be hard to set-up twice. However, I was hoping my investment was in fact an investment, and not a purchase that would be eaten by the great 0 and 1 monster. These items are now computers with version numbers that can make them obsolete because they don't have a MIDI port on them. On the flip side, just because one fooger is now MIDI doesn't mean they all will be; but the next most likely to go would be the delay - there goes $800 CAD. Should all of the fooger line go MIDI adaptable, then the ones I own will most likely become obsolete; and I would expect nothing less - they would offer repeatable results, and potentially added features not normally attainable in the original designs. They have eliminated me as competition, at least if you want to use MIDI, or if I expect my equipment to hold any value. Business is business, and music is music.
I bought MOOG products for the purity of analog, and because I thought it would be a good investment in case I ever moved on from music, or to pass on to the next generation. I kind of felt like I was doing business with a company that "shook Sinatra's hand" and had dignity in the actions they took. But now I am a little concerned that I was mistaken to think that MOOG wouldn't ever one up themselves, which is really what I'm blown away by - my own naivety. I mean they've done it before, most recently the Little Phatty, and the Etherwave theremin have had physical upgrades that cannot be added to originals. The Voyager had MIDI added as well.
Why would they go this way, and not just simply offer more ability in say an MP-201, which could be added to the existing, making previous foogers retain their special place, I was pretty excited to see how that controller evolved for each of the specific abilities it could provide. But now I'm concerned that it will get updated once with a number of good improvements, and then that's it.
Yes, they have answered may customer's requests to accommodate them in many ways, and they do respond, so in many ways they can still hold their heads high... The MIDI MuRF is a great idea. The Bass MuRF and MuRF combined into one, and the ability to create your own patterns is a great idea. So with that said, I'm looking forward to their future ideas, and innovations, but I'm not looking forward to more re-doing stuff. It would be really awesome of them to allow some kind of "upgrade" program, however I'm not expecting they would, it doesn't make sense to do.
I guess where all of this really comes from is where does the purity of analog synths and effects really lie. If all of these are MIDI controlled, they just become a physical plug in... There isn't a hole lot left in the analog world if MIDI controls it, except for the sound itself. The MuRF could have been easily sync'd before by using a click into a filter, and sending env out to the midi tap tempo input. My observation is that this is a lazy man's feature. What happened to music that breathes? (uh-oh... I'm getting old
)(Most of this is just a rant, but I do in fact want to hear some of your opinions regarding this. I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm just discussing a perspective currently in view.)
) and it's still worth what I paid for it - to me. I won't be rushing out to get the new MuRF, but the new features might be handy at some point. 
