The Moog Synthesiser is 50 years old

[Sysman]

Apparently it's 50 years this week since Robert Moog demonstrated his synthesizer at an exhibition.

Various examples featuring on R6 at the mo'

[doodab]

Mmmmm. Moogy.

[Doggy Styles]

Walter Carlos was an early adopter.

[Bunk]

Phhhwoooooar!

Just look at the knobs on that.

Build one Zeity! Got to be better than those silly line-following machines?

[doodab]

I have to say having played briefly with an older moog and spent a few hours on the modern Voyager I prefer the new ones. They are lovely. Nearly £3k for something that only plays one note at once though.

[Doggy Styles]

Rather before he became Wendy.

I thought that was his wife. Didn't she sing "I want to marry a lighthouse keeper"?

Damn, i've got to look it up now.

edit: no it wasn't

[Doggy Styles]

Rather before he became Wendy.

Ah, I never knew that.

[Martin@AS Financial]

Mmmmm. Moogy.

I would love to have that in my studio especially now that I'm starting to get my head around Ableton.

[doodab]

I would love to have that in my studio especially now that I'm starting to get my head around Ableton.

I have various soft modulars (scope DSP powered one, NI reaktor, Karma FX) and when I can be bothered to use them these days I usually patch a fairly standard 2 or 3 oscillators into a filter with envelopes, LFO and step sequencers for modulation. NI Massive or my Virus can do pretty much the same thing (I use the step sequencer in my drum machine to sequence it) and they are a lot easier to use.

Having said that I've had a go on / demo of a Cwejman S1 and some Doepfer gear in a shop and they both sounded pretty amazing. It's a lot of money for something that only plays one note at a time though, I doubt the rest of my studio is worth that much in total.

[VectraMan]

Nearly £3k for something that only plays one note at once though.

Lots of instruments only play one note at once. A friend of mine spends more than that on Saxophones.

Anyone have the Moog album from the 70s (maybe there was more than one?). I can remember Proud Mary, Raindrops keep falling on my Head, but a bit hazy on the other tracks.