Moog One (poly synth for bachelors & rock stars)

[echorec]

There are some incredibly ethereal sounds in this introduction. The YouTube video is quite a bit more impressive to me than the Soundcloud snippets.

https://soundcloud.com/moogmusicinc/sets/moog-one

There's so much movement, space, and complexity. It can certainly do classic 70s analog sounds, but there's so many futuristic sci-fi possibilities, too. Cianni's narration is quite entertaining and insightful as always. (starts at 6:24) Some of the older players did sweet-sounding organ-esque patches, but some of the other players did layered parts with the onboard FX.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdhzVFZlKsM[/youtube]

[Bartimaeus]

Me: this is dumb and overpriced

*sees Ryuichi Sakamoto playing some weird chords with an ominous pad sound*

Ok how to do I fund this???

[Jwar]

Yea it looks crazy cool. I'll wait for the clone version. lolz.

[MrNovember]

Well, time to start selling all of my gear so I can afford this...

[Ev_O)))]

Yeah that video was incredible and it's seems to be the incredibly versatile machine I'd thought it would be. I think the focus on more classic sounds in parts of that video are more symptomatic of the individuals demoing it and the snippets of weirder/crazier sounds had me salivating.
I'd kill for one of these but once you convert to AUD its a fucking shitload of cash.

[moid]

I enjoyed Suzanne Ciani's parts the most, the majority of the rest of them seem to be just making 70s synth sounds - to my unenlightened ears any way. However considering how expensive this is, I guess it's aimed at the synth equivalent of blues lawyers who just want to recreate their favourite 70s jazz and prog rock sounds... It would be more interesting to hear someone make some new sounds with it. It seemed like most of those sounds could be done digitally on a MIDI keyboard and most audiences would be none the wiser... I was really hoping this would sound new and different considering how much effort it must've been to design and build. Not that I could ever afford one, so they haven't lost any money from not trying to cater towards my tastes

[dubkitty]

Yeah that video was incredible and it's seems to be the incredibly versatile machine I'd thought it would be. I think the focus on more classic sounds in parts of that video are more symptomatic of the individuals demoing it and the snippets of weirder/crazier sounds had me salivating.
I'd kill for one of these but once you convert to AUD its a fucking shitload of cash.

that's a shitload of cash in any currency.

[echorec]

It's interesting that there's been no mention of the modulation routing in anyone's ad copy. In this video, Fisher says he doesn't know how many sources there are and he's already used dozens of options.

(in the first 10 seconds, you hear something that sounds like it's straight out of Animoog, playing starts again around 3:15)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S_WPVvunBI[/youtube]

It's also curious to me that there's been no mention of MPE, but if that has been standardized and the Moog offers USB MIDI, shouldn't that mean that it can be added later, if it doesn't sync up initially? There's also an option to update the unit and save things externally, so perhaps that can be done by updating the firmware.

Honestly if you skip around different demos, the One sounds a bit like an expanded, multi-timbral hardware Animoog crossed with a Sub 37. No one's really done anything aggressive in the demos, but I feel like those sounds are definitely in there. ---It took me years to find a demo, where I felt like the Sub 37 was a no-brainer purchase. Hardware synth demos are generally lacking, and even the best videos fail to really scratch the surface. Once I had a Sub 37, though, I was blown away by how it sounded in headphones with no external effects.

(this one has too many mono leads, but you can hear some metallic timbres that remind me of the Animoog. it also features the arpeggiator after 2:00 and some unison detuning around 4:15)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApSKSJNV0zw[/youtube]

(haven't completed this one yet, but around 15:20 I think Fisher says he did 40-50 mod sources in a single patch...that's insane)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQK2YiB1kjQ[/youtube]

[Muse FTW]

There's an AMA with Amos on /r/synthesizers which discusses some of these points.

MPE functionality will come with a patch, but not at launch.

The mod matrix allows for: "Currently there are 20 modulation slots available per timbre (a total of up to 60 per preset). That's in addition to all of the "hardwired" modulation paths on the panel."

The ethernet port allows for diagnosing problems with Moog engineers.

Modulating effect parameters will also come with a patch, not at launch (due to the architecture of effects living at the global level and modulation living at the per-voice level).

https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/c ... _engineer/

[odontophobia]

I fucking love Daniel Fisher's voice. It's soothing in the same way that Fred Roger's voice is soothing. I could sample his voice and sleep to it.
Also. This shit is out of hand. I should take another mortgage.

[MrNovember]

I need to stop checking this thread and watching demos

[odontophobia]

I need to stop checking this thread and watching demos

Suddenly you’re gonna start wondering where you can get $8k.

[MrNovember]

I need to stop checking this thread and watching demos

Suddenly you’re gonna start wondering where you can get $8k.

Oh, I'm already wondering. I figure I can just ride my bike to work. I don't need a car; it's only 40km (25 miles?)

[odontophobia]

I need to stop checking this thread and watching demos

Suddenly you’re gonna start wondering where you can get $8k.

Oh, I'm already wondering. I figure I can just ride my bike to work. I don't need a car; it's only 40km (25 miles?)

Retirement, what retirement?



but synths and not gold coins.

[oscillofuzz]

It's probably the best standalone synth I've ever heard, but as a synth noob (from the perspective of owning/playing them at least) I wonder: what is the point of having 16 voices when you only have 10 fingers to simultaneously play it with?