![]() But the monster of Roland’s family is little brother Jupiter-4. Roland’s Jupiter-8 is another all-time standard, this time polyphonic. A classic instrument – reliable, user-friendly and rich sounding. Now, in case your studio houses enough bass-/lead-/classic-/whatever-synthesizers, you might per chance happen upon another category of vintage synthesizer – the … Analog Monsterĭo you know what that is? I’d say there are only a few out there, so maybe you’ve never even gotten acquainted with one. Looking for tremendously colourful and warm sync-sounds puts the Prodigy on top of the mountain. If you’re just out for creamy, solid lead- and bass-sounds, the Minimoog fits the bill perfectly. Well, reducing the Sonic Six to any classic synthesizer concept is definitely a big mistake. There’s a Prodigy and a very nice Minimoog in my Setup as well, so why the hell would I need the Sonic Six? It’s just another 2-VCO synthesizer with the famous Moog ladder filter, isn’t it? Just a few months ago I planned to sell the Sonic Six (boy, am I glad I didn’t). It’s not only an ordinary synthesizer, it’s a real analog monster! It has an overwhelming, aggressive sound. In my opinion, the Sonic Six sounds better (and is more interesting) than many other Moog instruments. ? (Time to listen to some of the soundfiles attached to this review). ![]() But let’s ignore the fact that this instrument is based on a very off-the-line concept and concentrate on its sonic richness. That was a really bad buy for musicians, at least for those who wanted a classical Moog synthesizer. Original retail price of the instrument was about the same as for the Minimoog. The Sonic Six was produced from 1974 to 1979. Exploding the myth – the Sonic Six’s value It’s full of bristling historical background information and explains the instrument’s architecture in detail. Read more about Moog’s singular behaviour and the unusual Sonic Six story in Reid’s review. The result was the Zumchak Sonic 6… oops, I mean the Moog Sonic 6.” He then added a pitchbend wheel and glissando control. To do so, he made just one significant change he returned to one of the rejected 1969 drawings for the Minimoog (one that never made it, even as a prototype), and installed the Sonic V’s circuitry and keyboard into this. “Despite his personal antithesis towards Zumchak, Bob Moog obviously liked his design because, once Zumchak had departed for the second time, Moog decided to take the Sonic V and turn it into a Moog product. ![]() But once muSonics bought the insolvent R. At first, Bob Moog was not interested in that instrument’s concept at all. In fact, he tells us that Ukranian Gene Zumchak was the designer of the original Sonic V. Reid offers us an alternative view of the development of the Moog synthesisers. The one lone envelope is the sad side of the story, but then there are two independent signal-mixers for bombastic rich analogue sounds and, last but not least, you have your own built-in speaker for plug & play.Īnyone interested in the muSonics V / Moog Sonic Six story should read through Gordon Reid’s wonderful Sonic Six review. Playing Arabian music? No problem with the Sonic Six. And you’re allowed to set your own scalings in the oscillator section. The ring modulator is a real bonus, rather rare on Moog instruments. Nice keyboard, beautiful knobs (especially those big ones in the LFO section), two oscillators and a strong filter. At the start, it looks just like any ordinary synthesizer. The Etherwave Theremin is out now from Moog dealers and at Moog Sonic Six is different in many little ways. In April Moog Music updated their Theremin models previously sold as the “Etherwave Standard” and “Etherwave Plus” as an instrument simply known as the “Etherwave Theremin.” Hand-built at Moog’s Asheville, North Carolina headquarters, the Etherwave Theremin boasts “improved bass response and stability in the lowest registers,” improved antenna connections for quick assembly and teardown for travel and CV output integration from the Etherwave Plus for connecting with modular, semi-modular and Eurorack synths. The future modular synthesizer inventor built his first Theremin at age 14 and for 60 years a Theremin has had a place of honor in the Moog Music catalog. The physicality of playing a Theremin - an instrument that the performer never touches, but passes their hands over a pair of antennas controlling pitch and volume - intrigued a young Bob Moog. The Theremin was also the first Cold War instrument - the product of a Soviet research program into proximity sensors, presaging the next 60 years of inventors re-appropriating military R&D for sound design and the instruments to design it. While there is contentious debate about which machine was the first electronic musical instrument, there’s no question that the Theremin was the first one which was mass-produced as an instrument intended for the masses.
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