Re: Moog Grandmother
Posted: 18 May 2018
I have no more interest in mono keyboards. There’s literally millions of them on the market. What we need are more analogue polys in the affordable price range.
Same here, but the only “affordable” analogue poly is DeepMind. I also like Novation Peak, then up at the next price point there is Prophet and Nord series that look interesting.miscend wrote:I have no more interest in mono keyboards. There’s literally millions of them on the market. What we need are more analogue polys in the affordable price range.
Or you can have a few mono synths, and use Distributor inside Reason with a few EMIs. That's perhaps a cool concept to consider.
cough Minilogue coughselig wrote: ↑18 May 2018Same here, but the only “affordable” analogue poly is DeepMind. I also like Novation Peak, then up at the next price point there is Prophet and Nord series that look interesting.miscend wrote:I have no more interest in mono keyboards. There’s literally millions of them on the market. What we need are more analogue polys in the affordable price range.
Right now there is no one analogue poly that totally fills every need for me, so I’m waiting…
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Yea, guess I should have stated what “fills every need” means to me, which includes having more than 2 envelopes and 1 LFO per voice.sublunar wrote:cough Minilogue coughselig wrote: ↑18 May 2018Same here, but the only “affordable” analogue poly is DeepMind. I also like Novation Peak, then up at the next price point there is Prophet and Nord series that look interesting.
Right now there is no one analogue poly that totally fills every need for me, so I’m waiting…
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$499 USD, it's a fun little beast. I got mine about a year ago.
Ah, I understand. I'm not a big synth guy and I've bought and sold some but I'm a fan of the Minilogue for simplicity and analog goodness. When I want something more complicated than what I can get from the Minilogue I reach for my Nord 2x. I got the Nord by chance as I didn't know anything about synths at the time but it was a good deal and sounded interesting. Now that I've had it for several years, I love it. But, it's "virtual analog" so it doesn't count in this discussion.selig wrote: ↑18 May 2018Yea, guess I should have stated what “fills every need” means to me, which includes having more than 2 envelopes and 1 LFO per voice.sublunar wrote:
cough Minilogue cough
$499 USD, it's a fun little beast. I got mine about a year ago.
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Still, at $499 I can see the appeal!sublunar wrote:Ah, I understand. I'm not a big synth guy and I've bought and sold some but I'm a fan of the Minilogue for simplicity and analog goodness. When I want something more complicated than what I can get from the Minilogue I reach for my Nord 2x. I got the Nord by chance as I didn't know anything about synths at the time but it was a good deal and sounded interesting. Now that I've had it for several years, I love it. But, it's "virtual analog" so it doesn't count in this discussion.
fieldframe wrote: ↑18 May 2018Analog is nice and all, but what I really want is for someone to turn the sub-$500 market on its head with a really wild digital synth. Novation halfway did it with the Circuit, but focused on sequencing at the cost of synthesis control.
I want something as powerful as the Circuit’s Nova engine in a desktop box with 1:1 controls, plus the best-designed hardware mod matrix ever. The Circuit is $350 - I think my dream digital synth can come in under $500.
IMO, the name is only part of the equation. Every Moog synth that I’ve ever laid hands on SOUNDS like a Moog. The newer Sub Phatty, Sub37, etc have some new circuitry that dilutes that specific sound in order to cater to a larger market, but even those really do have an unmistakeable sound that I’ve never heard elsewhere. It’s not the filter (alone) it’s the raw oscillators and how they drive into the filter. The last synth that Bob Moog himself worked on, the Little Phatty/Slim Phatty, sound pretty much identical to the vintage Moog sound and the only thing people dislike is the editing system being a parameter access and menu dive type system.
jimmyklane wrote: ↑30 May 2018
Grandmother is an interesting idea, but probably not something that I’ll buy into. It has some neat features but nothing that I want so bad as to purchase more Moog. I’ve got that sound covered I think.