If you can’t afford a pretty Moog Etherwave Plus ($519) and you still want to sound like Portishead (I know it wasn’t a real Theramin) maybe Thereminator (iTunes link) for the iPhone will do the trick for you. It’s $3 and has over 200 five star ratings.
“The theremin, originally known as the aetherphone / etherophone or termenvox / thereminvox is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928. The controlling section usually consists of two metal antennas which sense the position of the player’s hands and control oscillators for frequency with one hand, and amplitude (volume) with the other. The electric signals from the theremin are amplified and sent to a loudspeaker.” – Wikipedia.org
For more info: yonac.com
This entry was written by , posted on February 17, 2010 at 5:19 am, filed under iPhone and tagged moog, Portishead, Theremin, Thereminator, Yonac. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O4_Y6506cs
A very pretty ash wood and jade green backlit Minimoog Voyager playing some drum sounds. $3,000 for one short real analog and fast envelope drum zap? You bet! Ok yeah we can multitrack these days.
“If you want THE Moog sound, this is it. Period. This has Bob Moog’s legendary synthesizer design expertise in its circuits. Say no more. It sounds amazing, looks amazing, and feels amazing. There is no substitute.” – moogmusic.com
For more info: moogmusic.com
via Matrixsynth
This entry was written by , posted on January 27, 2010 at 4:51 am, filed under hardware, synthesizer and tagged Minimoog, moog, Voyager. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkm-2OuIOhI
Oh pretty thing there you are. Sweetwater has an exclusive on a special edition Moog Little Phatty Stage II. Besides it’s pretty rear it has a Control Voltage output modification pre-installed at the Moog factory. Analog sequencer bassline fun is on the menu. This thing has CV, Midi and USB! I’m glad the economy is in the tanker because these are $1500. Do you want one too?
“You can also connect it directly to a computer running the Little Phatty Editor/Librarian. MIDI Clock Sync allows you to synchronize the LFO and arpeggiator rate to your MIDI sequencer, drum machine or software. Sample and hold, triangle, square, sawtooth and ramp wave modulations can now be perfectly timed with your rhythm track. With the pre-installed CV Output module, you also get CV output for the gate (0V – +5V), pitch (1V per octave), volume envelope (0V – 5V), filter envelope (0V – 5V), and off of the mod bus at a variable voltage.” – sweetwater.com
For more info: sweetwater.com
This entry was written by , posted on December 2, 2009 at 5:16 am, filed under hardware, synthesizer and tagged Control Voltage, moog, Sweetwater, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Novamusik is selling a special version of the Moog Voyager called the “NE”. I think it’s the best looking version of the best looking synth out there. They come in several colors with white-washed cabinets, matching backlighting, matching colored rocker switches and matching capped jack panels. I like the Electric NE above and in a close second the Solar NE below. You can see the other colors at the Novamusik site: click here
They will get you for $3,295. How many weeks pay gets you one? For more info: www.moogmusic.com
This entry was written by , posted on September 19, 2009 at 6:36 am, filed under hardware, synthesizer and tagged analog, colors, hardware, Minimoog, moog, Moog Voyager, Novamusik, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
MOOG + BIGODE from arthur joly on Vimeo.
Here’s a quick reminder to all rock bands out there to please mix your synthesizers loudly. Don’t they sound nice in the example above? Another great example of rock loud synths in action is Granddady’s AM 180: click here
This entry was written by , posted on July 20, 2009 at 4:51 am, filed under music, synthesizer, video and tagged Grandaddy, moog, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
yr3wk48 moog & tonematrix from longcat on Vimeo.
A few posts back I compared Retro vs Future audio producing technique videos. Today’s video shows old and new working together. The Moog Opus 3 was released in 1980. Vintage Synth Explorer has the Opus Manual available for download: click here ToneMatrix, Andre Michelle’s Tenori-on software clone is pure 2009: http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix
“With the ever wonderful moog opus 3, and the insanely addictive tone matrix from andre michelle… it’s freely usable so long as you have the most recent flash update, it reminds me of early software drum machines like hammerhead… it seems he is creating a whole reason-ish music creation world online all run with flash, it’s quite heavy on the CPU but very interesting x lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix the moog is still missing it’s string sound, but one of it’s faults allows me to just have the filter with no sound underneath which you hear at the beginning… i love this synth x” – longcat
Thanks for Robbie Knight for this video. Isn’t time shifting on a rainy (in NYC at least) Friday nice?
Related post: Thoughts and photos from the Tenori-on Berlin event.
This entry was written by , posted on May 29, 2009 at 4:09 am, filed under hardware, synthesizer, video and tagged longcat, moog, Opus 3, Robbie Knight, synthesizer, Tenori-on, ToneMatrix. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Here’s two videos that both help you make music with hardware. One is based on 1970’s tech and the other is pure 2009. What’s more lust worthy? A green lit Minimoog Voyager or an iPhone with polyphonic velocity sensitive keys controlling Ableton and more?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W868tnYADDk
“The MF-101 Low Pass Filter’s ENV OUT Control Voltage makes a number of amazing Rhythmic Modulation techniques possible. This video shows some of these applications in a Dance Music setting. This technique is not limited to Dance Music. The applications are as endless as your imagination.” – MoogMusicInc
MSA Remote + VDMX + Ableton Live from Memo Akten on Vimeo.
“MSA Remote is a remote control application for iPhone & iPod Touch that sends OSC messages over the wifi network. This allows you to control any OSC supporting applications such as Max/MSP/Jitter, PureData, Reaktor, VDMX, vvvv, Resolume, Quartz Composer etc. In this video, OSCulator is routing the OSC (& TUIO) messages coming from MSA Remote to midi and forwarding to Ableton Live and VDMX simultaneously. Nothing is done in post, the same signal is controlling both audio and video. At the beginning of the video you can see the polyphonic velocity sensitive keys in action (yes, the harder you hit the keys, the louder the sound – works equally well when the iphone is laid on a table), and later on the faders, triggers and multitouch tuio-pad. Should be in the app store soon: www.memo.tv/msaremote_for_iphone” – Memo Akten
I like you so you can have both set ups but for fun answer me this: Which set up would you rather have?
This entry was written by , posted on May 18, 2009 at 5:18 am, filed under Ableton Live, hardware, iPhone, synthesizer and tagged filter, MF-101, moog, Moog Voyager, MSA Remote, Voyager. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
The next two days in New York be sunny and warm. My wife’s been pointing out all the holes in my favorite T-shirts. Therefore this post is for her and her wallet. Most of these prints are available on American Apparel shirts which means they fit well and are nice and soft. The classic and now fully hipsterized green Moog T? Could I be in full “Hawtin, bald, those black geek eyeglasses” Ableton T mode? Do I want to date myself with the Fairlight T? I love AD and Ohm Force but no one other than readers of this blog would have a clue what the prints mean (which is ok by me!).
Here’s the links:
Audio Damage T-Shirt
Moog T-Shirt
Ableton T-Shirt
Fairlight T-Shirt
Ohm Force T-Shirt
Bonus… Elektron T-Shirt
Which one do you want?
This entry was written by , posted on April 16, 2009 at 5:44 am, filed under Ableton Live, Uncategorized, plug-ins, synthesizer and tagged ableton, Audio Damage, Elektron, Fairlight, moog, ohm force, T-Shirt. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
The Moogseum Project from Steve White on Vimeo.
A Moog museum. A program to bring electronic instruments into schools. Ton of archives, schematics written by Bob on display for the public. These are a few of the things the Moog Foundation is working on and they need your help. This is not a “mini” project! The Moog brand is a true American success story and it’s story deserves great respect and preservation.
“Michelle Moog-Koussa of The Bob Moog Foundation discusses the first Bob Moog museum or MOOGSEUM.” – Steve White
Learn more and donate: www.moogfoundation.org
Visit Moog online: www.moogmusic.com
This entry was written by , posted on April 13, 2009 at 4:51 am, filed under business, synthesizer and tagged Bob Moog, moog. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
MicroMoog and Freqbox from Rhythmicons on Vimeo.
“Good evening ladies and gentleman my name is Eric from the Rhythmicons demonstrain’ some Moog products.” Specifically Eric uses the FreqBox as a second Oscillator for a old Micromoog. Things get fun at about 3:33 in. The USA flag surely fits in this Arkansas Moog kitchen!
Here’s how Eric did it:
MicroMoog Kbd out to Cp251 Attenuator
Attenuator out to Freqbox Frequency input
Freq Out to Audio Input of Freqbox.
Audio output to MicroMoog Audio Input.
Definitely check out some of Gabe Carlisle and Eric Kriner’s music: www.myspace.com/rhythmicons
This entry was written by , posted on March 25, 2009 at 4:44 am, filed under synthesizer, video and tagged Eric Kriner, Gabe Carlisle, MF-107, Micromoog, moog, Rhythmicons. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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