Hello again, Daniel! We have been in touch earlier. Excuse me for two (late) stupid questions again. If I have understand you right, the oscillators send out a tone, and then you modify it. Is it because of this it's called subtractive? Is it the same thing with my (Moog) Sub 37? Musically yours Liselotte Frejdig in Karlstad, Sweden.
In 1969, I got to work with the Moog III at Philadelphia Music Academy. Every ten to twenty minutes or so, the oscillators had to be adjusted to maintain pitch, as the electronics at that time wasn't stable enough to maintain pitch when resistance and temperature changes occurred! Great instrument. I also got to visit Robert Moog in his factory in Trumansburg, NY. Amazing place; amazingly geeky lovable person!
Hi Don. It's hard to completely describe the sensation of working with a large modular synthesizer to someone who's only played plug-ins or a plastic keyboard with just a couple of generic knobs. Thanks for sharing!
A true synth veteran. I've today the same problem with a rare Prophet MK1... (founded in an abandoned house on the top of a mountain. Very very dirty, but still alive)
Wendy Carlos recalled having to hit the Moog synthesizer with a hammer during the recording of "Switched-on-Bach" because it was unreliable and went out of tune.
The thing about it is that it's idiot-proof. You can't plug into a "wrong place". The worst you could do is fail to make the sound you want. My employer once let me play his Moog IIIp (one that eventually ended up in Tangerine Dream's recordings) as much as I wanted to (in 1970-ish). Blew up some glassware, Had a LOT of fun making real music. Now I have a Behringer System 55, but can't remember the configuration of the IIIP from 50 years ago. Oh well, I have a lot of time to play with it. Thank goodness for YT and people posting their experience.
I've heard stories of how bands would achieve a certain sound with them, then we're never able to reproduce it again because the programmer forgot how they plugged the cables in. They almost had a "record this quick" mentality because obviously you could replay the recording back later as a lay down or sample track. Very interesting stories came out of working with this amazing machine. You could mess with it for hours and achieve all kinds of ethereal sounds.
@@davida.p.9911seems like it could do just about anything with the right settings, but you had to be very capable with it in order to get the best performance out of it.
@@rokker101 Roger Powell of Todd Rundgren’s Utopia toured with TWO System 55’s and a custom dual manual controller built by Bob Moog himself. They were lost in a warehouse fire. The custom keyboard controller was stolen and recovered 30 years later. It is now in the Moog Museum.
I really appreciate both Daniel's knowledge of the system as well as his genuine passion and love for it. Great video, I'm a new fan of his. Thank you, Daniel.
I didn’t have any idea what to do, but I knew I needed a click, so we put a click on the 24 track which was then synch to the moog modular. I knew it could be a sound of the future, but I didn’t realize how much impact it would be
It's cool to see MOOG bringing back classics in addition to their newer instruments. Even the old Realistic synth has that MOOG sound that other keyboards don't.
@@kikko422 It's worth it alright. Stop birthing out more humans (the cost of a baby is 100,000 K until it's 18+ and then there's the "misery cost index" of working just with MIDI) vs. working with Dudley Simpson's dream machine...
@G Probably at least partially because "In the year 1964, the first modern synthesizer that was commercially available was introduced by Robert Moog." The very first audio synthesizer was designed a bit earlier, though, 1876, with the first programmable version by RCA in 1964. Moog hit the market in '64, and Wendy Carlos' Switched on Bach in '68. Likely a good part of the reason. Building a synth is not difficult for an electrical engineer, it's basically just oscillators and various filters other types of signal processors, and a lot of patching or switching capabiity. Piece of cake if you understand Kruschev's current and voltage laws. ;-) I'm not really sure one would sound all that much different from another, given they are probably similar designs with mostly the same parts, at least early on. But then, there are still morons out there that insist vinyl records "sound better" than the highest calibur digital sound available...and then they listen to it on the equivalent of a "close and play". They are the ones that buy speaker connecting wire that costs THOUSANDS of dollars, there is a sucker born every minute (thousands of them, actually). I expect if you wanted to do a serious design now, you might go at it digitally, where you can do stuff you CAN'T do (in a practical sense) with purely analog equipment...you could even do it on a PC with virtual knobs and patch cords, and some app specific cards/DAC's/etc. if you wanted to. Not sure why you would, though.
I was an in house sound engineer at a live music venue for a couple of years. I'd heard many ,what I thought were great Moog simulations, from Korg, Nord etc. Until one night, a guy brought in a real moog. He did a sweep and I had to run for the faders. This thing was dangerous. These things can definitely blow speakers. The difference was astonishing.
Ive never heard of korg doing a moog emulation, but ust because something is louder, it isn't better, but I shouldn't need to tell a sound engineer that.
@@spiralmoment Not louder. "Bigger! In every way. More visceral. I had the same experience with a real B3 vs an emulation and again with a real Fender Rhodes vs an emulation. You experience those classic instruments not just hear them. There's definitely something special about them. That's why they're being emulated. That's my real world experience with them anyway .regardless of what you say.
This is very nice. $35,000 is actually quite reasonable for this type of instrument. I mean, some Steinway 9 foot grand pianos can go for like $70,000, and nobody makes much fuss about it. I mean, I can do most of the stuff I will ever need with my D-50. Even thought it's a digital synthesizer (70% of its development was software) it really sounds analog. Of course the Moog in this video I am sure has much more cleaner sound. The D-50 hiss level was even criticized back in 1987 when the instrument was introduced. Anyway, very nice video. Nice too see Moog modular in brand-new condition, not run down like most of the stuff you get off eBay.
Man do I love synths... But the joy it brought me just to see the shine in your eyes as you reexplored this fantastic machine (and memory)... Undescribable.
I've listened to electronic music since youth. I know I'll never lay my hands on a Moog modular synthesiser, but If I would, I would not know where to start. Thanks for such a brief and extensive tour of such an instrument.
Hi Sebastien, you can read about synths all day, but nothing beats getting your hands on one. Try a small one first or, try any of the free/low cost synth apps out there. But, if you can get/borrow one, nothing beats real knobs for learning. Thanks for watching!
This modular synth is literally the father of all synthesizers. I mean with these complexities, you can create sounds that are just so damn out of this world
It’s amazing that just sticking a bunch of wires into different inlet/outlets and twisting a few knobs and u have music and, then you hear you messing around a little bit with it and u can kind of sort of hear so many familiar noises and sounds from a lot of iconic and classic songs in all different genres of music and u see home much work went into getting the instrument so make the right noises to make the desired sound.... it’s not just about sticking some wires in random holes and u got a song.. a lot of hard work and time it takes to refine that perfect sound!! Good stuff!!! keep on rocking!!
The second sound gave me goose bumps.it almost sounded like a whale call with the delay. Amazing sound and the range ive never herd such extremes from just one synth.
I predict that there will be a resurgence of analog synth use for the next few years, then musicians will begin to struggle with failing jacks and patch cables and dirty pots and we will all discover again, why digital synths so quickly replaced analog, 30 years ago. Still I gotta say, LOVE THAT SWEET ANALOG TONE.
Hmm, No I don't think so. When digital synths came around 30 years ago, they offered something new. Sounds and possibilities that musicians didn't have before. Because everybody likes a new toy, they traded their analog synths for digital ones. However, now everybody is used to and well aware of the possibilities of digital synths (and VSTs etc.) But also the limits of digital stuff. That's why analog has made a comeback. Not to replace digital synths, but rather as an additional tool for flexible sound creation.
Moog is very nice and all, but since we have like at least 5 main synthesis methods, closing oneself down to subtractive synthesis only, it's quite limiting in my opinion. If one has $35,000 for a subtractive synth, one should also have the same for a Fairlight additive and sampling, Synclavier (I believe additive and FM, and sampling, too) and $30,000 for Yamaha VP1 physical modeling synthesizer. Then the system would be better balanced than buying all subtractive synthesizers only, which seems so prevalent nowadays. I'd far prefer to have my system balanced to cover all synthesis methods: say Kawai K5 for additive, Casio FZ-1 for pseudo additive, waveform drawing, sampling, and subtractive, Yamaha DX7II for FM, Roland D-50 with PG-1000 programmer for subtractive synthesis, and Casio VZ-1 for phase distortion, and Yamaha VL1 for physical modeling. Of course my ultimate dream synth would still be the VP1, with polyphonic physical modeling. Let me put it that way, if I won the lottery I probably wouldn't by the Moog. It's nice and all, but I'd more likely lean towards the VP1 or Fairlight CMI series II or III and have he D-50 cover my subtractive needs.
Andrew Piatek Yes, except that a digital synth don't have to be that expensive anymore. Back in the days of the Fairlight and Synclavier computer chips, especially memory chips, where really expensive. Adding a few megabytes of memory to a Fairlight in the early eighties cost a fortune. Nowadays it can all be done with small chips at the cost of a few dollars. Analog is a different story though. Especially when they recreate a vintage synth like the Moog 15/35/55. All those discrete and sometimes hard to find components are reflected in the high price.
As far as I am aware, the Fairlight CMI series-II reissues is flat fee $20,000 available from Mr. Vogel. Synclav seems to have died away somewhere in Massachussets probably? Now, when it comes to "analog", you should owe it to yourself to see teardown video of Dave Instruments Prophet 12. It's basically hollow inside. If the the newly released Sequential Prophet-6 with VCO's is similar, then the Prophet stands for Profit there. MS-20 mini and new ARP Odyssey are probably analog (although Dave Smith says it's just stupid to use analog chips for envelopes) and both within $1,000 range. My point is that the integrated circuits make the analog technology very cheap, too. Having said that, the $35,000 price tag for Moog 55 is not outrageous. After all this is what a fine Yamaha grand piano will cost you. And nobody seems to make any fuss about that, so not sure why would anybody make any fuss around the Moog, and neither do I. I am just saying that it makes more sense to have representives of all forms of synthesis, as opposed to just subtractive. But of course, I respect anybody buying the new Moog modulars. I am just saying that if I won a lottery, I wouldn't but the Moog. I'd try to gind Yamaha VP1 isntead, and maybe even contact Mr. Vogel about his Fairlight.
Andrew Piatek I think the new Fairlight is actually way overpriced. I just looked at the website and he's asking a whopping $25.000 for it. Ouch! Even with the nice keyboard, monitor and the limited production number it should not cost more than say $6000-8000 in my opinion. I think mister Vogel is just really trying to cash in on the name Fairlight. Different from the Moog, it's not an exact reissue of the original, but rather a new instrument based on the look and feel of the original. With modern chips and production, the cost should be a lot lower than back in the eighties. The Fairlight basically being a sampler, I don't see why you would really want to have this compared to more modern sampling options. Except for the cool look maybe. The Dave Smith instruments are also new designs, allowing him like you said to use more integrated electronics and keep the price relative low. I would BTW not call the Prophet 12 analog. It's got digital oscillators. The filter is still the CEM one, but the sound is still very cold and digital in my opinion. The Prophet 6 on the other hand looks quite promising. The Moog 15/35/55 are different because they are exact replicas of the original. Using the original circuit design and parts instead of relying on cheap integrated technology, makes all the difference. So yes I do think the price on those is not outrages taking this in consideration. They are unfortunately out of my price range though :( And yes I agree there is a place for all types of sound generators, analog and digital. I like both for different reasons.
That thing is one righteous piece equipment, definitely lne of greatest wonders of man's creativity. I could literally spend all my life with a Moog synth and explore only a fraction of the infinite soundscapes it can produce. I actually got here by listening to Mort Garson, one of the finest Moog synth players I know. Some of his stuff is beyond jawdropping and way ahead of its time for 1971, pure wizardry.
Hi Peedlebum. I own quite a few Tomita records and CDs and cherish every one of them. I think my all-time favorite is The Planets. Thanks for watching!
I just closed my eyes and got sucked into a John carpenter film! This thing is like chess, over a billion possible outcomes from only a couple choices. From an engineering point of view it's just a result of additive and destructive interference but from an artistic standpoint this thing is a Ouija board
I worked with a band that was from D.C. I ended up playing with the guys down in Florida . The Band was called Bristol . Guy Meredith was in the band .He was one of the few guys that actually used one of these in the band .He studied electronic music . Talking back in 1973 74 . It is cool to see one in action again . Gee I can actually say I lived it .Getting old I guess . Can you say ELP .
the phat, rich unrivalled sound of analogue ~ priceless ~ digital will hardly ever even come close to the 'full'ness, the ambiance, the distinct quality of analogue
Thank you, we watched this in class, 5.B (age 10-11), in Budapest, Hungary. It was very interesting! Children asked why we don't learn about these things in music class. Maybe they are right.
There was an album released in 1970s called "switched on Bach" - a suite of Bach's compositions played with the Moog synthesiser................it was a hit in Australia. Still got the Vinyl somewhere!!! Stavros of yesteryear
YES. I knew it reminded me of something, but couldn't remember what. That's _exactly_ what I was thinking of. (the very beginning of the Overture, actually). Thank you!
Great demo, thanks. It is amazing to me the variety of sounds that come (came) from such a machine, with so few differing functions. You listen to stuff like Wakeman's from the early Moog time period and he made sounds that were totally recognizable (not perfect obviously) as vocal choirs, as opposed to anything else. I remember the "old man" getting Wendy Carlos' Switched on Back when it first came out, and hearing the Moog for the first time on a rather awesome system he built (15 Altecs, the GOOD ones, 800 cycle horns in large cabinets, home designed and built amps with electronic crossovers (an engineer), and a crow bar overcurrent shutdown on the horns so you could POUND the things without fear of damage, in a paneled 24' X 24' Fl room built mostly for the stereo system, a fireplace, and a place to put the pool table). I was blown away the first time I heard both the stereo and the Switched on Bach (later), and just about played the oxide off that reel to reel tape (there were many many brown alcohol filled q tips)...those were the days....and so are these. And the pipe organ on those woofers...not quite my current Velodyne Servo subs equal, but awesome, nonetheless. An aside, when the wall sconce filaments were starting to get crummy in the livingroom wall sconces, the kids would always want me to "finish" them off with the sub, and my daughter, when she was young, called it the CyberWolf, instead of subwoofer...I thought that was awesome, too.
Haha actually it's not TH-cam. I can hear the oscillator until 1:01. It's where our ears cut out the high frequencies because it's outside human hearing range. Your dog heard it though lol.
chefzabi ok, i just checked the timecode i used, and i can also hear it until 1:01. But i know that youtube cuts off frequencies above something like 20 khz.
+StarTrek123456 It makes sense, many many people can't hear above 18kHz or something. Although for mostly young people, this is a pitty :) Don't listen to music on TH-cam!
+MikroXdrums You can hear up to 18kHz until - well about 8 years. Then your ability slowly drops. A normal middle age adult may hear up to 12 - 14kHz. So you can imagine how it will be when you´re old.
Riding the Storm Out. Never Been Any Reason, won't Get Fooled Again. Hundreds of"Patches" that define our Rock and Roll heritage. Outstanding video!!! I hope the children born after 2K can grasp ahold. Thank you so much!!!!!
I really like the sound you have from 0:00-7:52
Benjamin Rosfeld Agreed. Watching this commemorates the first time I said, "Take my money" aloud.
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Benjamin Rosfeld hahahahahahaha
oh , ..... i get it now.....ha ha
Ha ha
this guy actually understands this thing. he should make an album with it.
whoever likes that 4:35 beast mode must be an alien...i had a headache...he was so cool at it.
Try Jean Michel Jarre's album Oxygene and Equinoxe (from
76 and '78) and you'll hear what this can do.
See Keith Emerson one of the 1st to use and took on tour until he died. Different model but much the same.
geek does not means musician or composer
Hello again, Daniel! We have been in touch earlier. Excuse me for two (late) stupid questions again. If I have understand you right, the oscillators send out a tone, and then you modify it. Is it because of this it's called subtractive? Is it the same thing with my (Moog) Sub 37? Musically yours Liselotte Frejdig in Karlstad, Sweden.
It also makes long distance phone calls over seas.
underatted
kingofallwhites this made my day 😂
Roger Waters - Yeah, needs more rats
Misha Pchen I always thought these looked like old communications switch boards as well.
Exactly what I was thinking when I saw all those patch cables.
It sounds primal. Like listening to the programming of the universe.
Excellent observations ❤
How a big thing like this doesn't have background noise
This comment was made by a 5 year old
In 1969, I got to work with the Moog III at Philadelphia Music Academy. Every ten to twenty minutes or so, the oscillators had to be adjusted to maintain pitch, as the electronics at that time wasn't stable enough to maintain pitch when resistance and temperature changes occurred! Great instrument. I also got to visit Robert Moog in his factory in Trumansburg, NY. Amazing place; amazingly geeky lovable person!
Hi Don. It's hard to completely describe the sensation of working with a large modular synthesizer to someone who's only played plug-ins or a plastic keyboard with just a couple of generic knobs. Thanks for sharing!
A true synth veteran.
I've today the same problem with a rare Prophet MK1... (founded in an abandoned house on the top of a mountain. Very very dirty, but still alive)
@@mv1692 that's awesome, I want one desperatly
Wendy Carlos recalled having to hit the Moog synthesizer with a hammer during the recording of "Switched-on-Bach" because it was unreliable and went out of tune.
Weird to hear how these synthesized sounds feel organic.
Freaking love that.
I always like to imagine that it's the organic sounds that sound synthetic.
Analog analog analog.
Analog is superior
Synthesized*
Analog feels strangely human
This dude is like a kid in a candy store. It's so cool to see such enthusiasm for such an extreme instrument
That's no synth, it's a space station!
Lol
I guess it is
it´s a electronic keyboard ,no synth allowed, it´s a forgoten form of art ,see the two burglers video
You can't win, but there are alternatives to fighting.
i´m 5 years late... but i think it´s an entire dimension inside that shit!!!
5:47 I love abrupt cut to how the cables are cranked up to 11 then “alright lets see what this does”
Kenta Sugimoto voila! Bossanova.
1:31 - 1:41 Regular Show Intro
that is what i thought too lol
*1:36
2:53 Those foley wind sounds are incredible!!
The thing about it is that it's idiot-proof. You can't plug into a "wrong place". The worst you could do is fail to make the sound you want. My employer once let me play his Moog IIIp (one that eventually ended up in Tangerine Dream's recordings) as much as I wanted to (in 1970-ish). Blew up some glassware, Had a LOT of fun making real music. Now I have a Behringer System 55, but can't remember the configuration of the IIIP from 50 years ago. Oh well, I have a lot of time to play with it. Thank goodness for YT and people posting their experience.
that small snipit at 1:45 - 2:22 was beyond epic
For the price you should be able to talk to the dead with it.
Scyber_Sounds Of The Future That’s the $8,500 upgrade,but it comes with a flight case.
If there's a magic sound that can raise the dead, I'm sure there's a Moog registration for it.
or open a portal
Oh, you can, don't worry.
You pay your money, your get the features as advertised. Now the next problem is how you get the dead to talk back to you. (Baksheesh maybe?)
With 100 cables plugged in... "Alright, let's see what this does"
the problem is to know how to connect and combine a web of cables
😂
@@RUfromthe40s 1 at a time.
I've heard stories of how bands would achieve a certain sound with them, then we're never able to reproduce it again because the programmer forgot how they plugged the cables in. They almost had a "record this quick" mentality because obviously you could replay the recording back later as a lay down or sample track. Very interesting stories came out of working with this amazing machine. You could mess with it for hours and achieve all kinds of ethereal sounds.
@@davida.p.9911seems like it could do just about anything with the right settings, but you had to be very capable with it in order to get the best performance out of it.
The white noise gives me the chills! so good!
OH yeah FINALLY a synth I can take on the road
If you outfit it with wheels . . .
Notice how it’s sitting on its road case?
keith Emerson did for most of his career RIP X
Kansas also
@@rokker101 Roger Powell of Todd Rundgren’s Utopia toured with TWO System 55’s and a custom dual manual controller built by Bob Moog himself. They were lost in a warehouse fire. The custom keyboard controller was stolen and recovered 30 years later. It is now in the Moog Museum.
I really appreciate both Daniel's knowledge of the system as well as his genuine passion and love for it. Great video, I'm a new fan of his. Thank you, Daniel.
I didn’t have any idea what to do, but I knew I needed a click, so we put a click on the 24 track which was then synch to the moog modular. I knew it could be a sound of the future, but I didn’t realize how much impact it would be
It's cool to see MOOG bringing back classics in addition to their newer instruments. Even the old Realistic synth has that MOOG sound that other keyboards don't.
True; you can almost always tell you're listening to a moog.
From 6:25 on I was just waiting for some Metal Drums and Guitars to kick in.
It's Mick Gordon's fault.
Christianice sinceramente mai mi sarei aspettato di trovarti qui 🤣🤣
@@giovannicarlospalla2316
Perché? :)
@@ChristianIce Sono troppo abituato a vedere i tuoi commenti sotto video trash🤣🤣. Comunque grande, significa che hai buoni gusti musicali. Ciao!
@@giovannicarlospalla2316
Get gabe Serbian from the Locust on that track
I hear Edgar Winter. Billy Thorpe. Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Kraftwerk. What a great video. Thanks for sharing.
7:18 when somebody tryna make a beat on Fl Studio for the first time
KingCobraJFS what’s looo sample
😂
Guys using GarageBand and Logic Pro for the first time
(Or basically 5 yr olds)
I head many sounds that you created on this video that were used on ELP's, Lucky Man....COOL!!!
I like hearing $10,000 modular synths through ear buds on youtube...
keep trying hunny, this shit is worth way more
$10 000? Oh sweetie, bless your soul. It’s a bit more than that though.
@@kikko422 It's worth it alright. Stop birthing out more humans (the cost of a baby is 100,000 K until it's 18+ and then there's the "misery cost index" of working just with MIDI) vs. working with Dudley Simpson's dream machine...
They go for around 35k..
@G Probably at least partially because "In the year 1964, the first modern synthesizer that was commercially available was introduced by Robert Moog."
The very first audio synthesizer was designed a bit earlier, though, 1876, with the first programmable version by RCA in 1964. Moog hit the market in '64, and Wendy Carlos' Switched on Bach in '68. Likely a good part of the reason. Building a synth is not difficult for an electrical engineer, it's basically just oscillators and various filters other types of signal processors, and a lot of patching or switching capabiity. Piece of cake if you understand Kruschev's current and voltage laws. ;-)
I'm not really sure one would sound all that much different from another, given they are probably similar designs with mostly the same parts, at least early on. But then, there are still morons out there that insist vinyl records "sound better" than the highest calibur digital sound available...and then they listen to it on the equivalent of a "close and play". They are the ones that buy speaker connecting wire that costs THOUSANDS of dollars, there is a sucker born every minute (thousands of them, actually).
I expect if you wanted to do a serious design now, you might go at it digitally, where you can do stuff you CAN'T do (in a practical sense) with purely analog equipment...you could even do it on a PC with virtual knobs and patch cords, and some app specific cards/DAC's/etc. if you wanted to. Not sure why you would, though.
It sounds like the universe being ripped apart. I love it
StephenAnthonyMusic
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$35,000 for every sound ever made ever if you spend the time to figure it out.
I'd say it's worth it.
As our music theory teacher said,able to create every sound you can imagine&more that you can't
Hardly. The Moog was a ground breaking device/musical instrument, but it has limitations as far what sounds it can create.
These days you can make more sounds with a computer and free software. You hardly need to spend 50 grand.
@@dbbubba1 Are you referring to a specific model, or... ?
It took a real professional of their craft to get the best out of one of these!
I was an in house sound engineer at a live music venue for a couple of years. I'd heard many ,what I thought were great Moog simulations, from Korg, Nord etc. Until one night, a guy brought in a real moog. He did a sweep and I had to run for the faders. This thing was dangerous. These things can definitely blow speakers. The difference was astonishing.
Ive never heard of korg doing a moog emulation, but ust because something is louder, it isn't better, but I shouldn't need to tell a sound engineer that.
@@spiralmoment Not louder. "Bigger! In every way. More visceral. I had the same experience with a real B3 vs an emulation and again with a real Fender Rhodes vs an emulation. You experience those classic instruments not just hear them. There's definitely something special about them. That's why they're being emulated. That's my real world experience with them anyway
.regardless of what you say.
This is very nice. $35,000 is actually quite reasonable for this type of instrument. I mean, some Steinway 9 foot grand pianos can go for like $70,000, and nobody makes much fuss about it. I mean, I can do most of the stuff I will ever need with my D-50. Even thought it's a digital synthesizer (70% of its development was software) it really sounds analog. Of course the Moog in this video I am sure has much more cleaner sound. The D-50 hiss level was even criticized back in 1987 when the instrument was introduced. Anyway, very nice video. Nice too see Moog modular in brand-new condition, not run down like most of the stuff you get off eBay.
Yes, it's a reasonable price for what it is. But let's keep in mind they did it that way because there was no other way to do it back then. LOL
I have no idea what's going on but it sounds cool.
...and fascinating to watch...even though it's entirely over my head....
Man do I love synths... But the joy it brought me just to see the shine in your eyes as you reexplored this fantastic machine (and memory)... Undescribable.
From your demo I heard snippets of many songs from the 60’s. Awesome.
If I could, I would ❤
Will have to get the Behringer version.
I've listened to electronic music since youth. I know I'll never lay my hands on a Moog modular synthesiser, but If I would, I would not know where to start. Thanks for such a brief and extensive tour of such an instrument.
Hi Sebastien, you can read about synths all day, but nothing beats getting your hands on one. Try a small one first or, try any of the free/low cost synth apps out there. But, if you can get/borrow one, nothing beats real knobs for learning. Thanks for watching!
if moog would do a lifetime payment plan i would add to cart now.
MyBichSustained
You’re STUPID man!!!...I’m sorry that’s too funny lmao!
MyBichSustained
AIN'T DAT DA TRUTH, BROTHA?!?
Straight up
There’s an uber cheap payment plan for modular synth plug-ins on Moog’s website
When he was turning up the white noise I was like,"No... don't....nooo....NooO.... NOOOOOOOO....AAAAHHHHHH"
I’m dead me too 😂😂😂
jajajajaja it's souns freak when your are high like me haha
@@zardelgettho83 wOoW haha u do weed?
That reminded me of the "wind sounds" Keith Emerson did on the Pictures at an Exhibition album. Sweet memories. Thanks Daniel.
I heard bits of the intro to Rush's '2112' in there :-))
Oh boy...1980/ 1992 flashbacks here! I've heard a lot of favourite electronic/wave, house, gabber and techno record sounds come by! ❤
This modular synth is literally the father of all synthesizers.
I mean with these complexities, you can create sounds that are just so damn out of this world
It’s amazing that just sticking a bunch of wires into different inlet/outlets and twisting a few knobs and u have music and, then you hear you messing around a little bit with it and u can kind of sort of hear so many familiar noises and sounds from a lot of iconic and classic songs in all different genres of music and u see home much work went into getting the instrument so make the right noises to make the desired sound.... it’s not just about sticking some wires in random holes and u got a song.. a lot of hard work and time it takes to refine that perfect sound!!
Good stuff!!! keep on rocking!!
This was actually cool to watch. Even though I was born at the end of the 80s a lot of these synth still sounds take me back in time
3:10 I find it really awesome that you somewhat replicated the rushing sound at the beginning of the 2112 overture. Such a great song!
"It gives me chills!" Right person. Right job.
Wow thank you ! your passion is inspiring :D
The second sound gave me goose bumps.it almost sounded like a whale call with the delay.
Amazing sound and the range ive never herd such extremes from just one synth.
I know most of you won't believe me, but in all honesty, I can't afford this.
no way bro. dirt cheap. wall mart cheap
Can build your own yourself, if you have a few years to spare.
No way! Aren't you that guy who won the lottery?
But, but... it's only 3 easy payments!
@goplay, I built synths in the 70s, not difficult. Also, Euroracks don;t take long to build and are far cheaper and more modules available.
...awesome tones, great flexibility, don't have kids, have a system 55.
Do have kids. You'll need to sell your first born child to afford one of these. :D
Douglas Linder
i know this is sarcasm, but i absolutely agree
You can't have kids around this thing with their sticky hands and being prone to spilling liquids.
Haha is so funny how anyone want kids... My loneliness is gone hhahaha...
_What a strange thing to say_
I like the vibrations of these electrons
I am still saving up for the cables. Been about 10 years saving so far :)
Absolutely fascinating to see this in operation after so many decades.
Hi Kevin. I hope you weren't talking about me ;-) The Moog System 55 that I played here was a new reissue. Thanks for watching! -_Daniel_
even over a youtube video, that sound is incredible. such crazy bass in the oscillators.
Sooo cool........love playing around with synths.🙂
uff... seems like Real Thing for Sound Creation ... thanks for this great Demo
The one and only, the original synthesizer! Such a legend!
I predict that there will be a resurgence of analog synth use for the next few years, then musicians will begin to struggle with failing jacks and patch cables and dirty pots and we will all discover again, why digital synths so quickly replaced analog, 30 years ago. Still I gotta say, LOVE THAT SWEET ANALOG TONE.
Hmm, No I don't think so. When digital synths came around 30 years ago, they offered something new. Sounds and possibilities that musicians didn't have before. Because everybody likes a new toy, they traded their analog synths for digital ones. However, now everybody is used to and well aware of the possibilities of digital synths (and VSTs etc.) But also the limits of digital stuff. That's why analog has made a comeback. Not to replace digital synths, but rather as an additional tool for flexible sound creation.
Moog is very nice and all, but since we have like at least 5 main synthesis methods, closing oneself down to subtractive synthesis only, it's quite limiting in my opinion. If one has $35,000 for a subtractive synth, one should also have the same for a Fairlight additive and sampling, Synclavier (I believe additive and FM, and sampling, too) and $30,000 for Yamaha VP1 physical modeling synthesizer. Then the system would be better balanced than buying all subtractive synthesizers only, which seems so prevalent nowadays. I'd far prefer to have my system balanced to cover all synthesis methods: say Kawai K5 for additive, Casio FZ-1 for pseudo additive, waveform drawing, sampling, and subtractive, Yamaha DX7II for FM, Roland D-50 with PG-1000 programmer for subtractive synthesis, and Casio VZ-1 for phase distortion, and Yamaha VL1 for physical modeling. Of course my ultimate dream synth would still be the VP1, with polyphonic physical modeling. Let me put it that way, if I won the lottery I probably wouldn't by the Moog. It's nice and all, but I'd more likely lean towards the VP1 or Fairlight CMI series II or III and have he D-50 cover my subtractive needs.
Andrew Piatek Yes, except that a digital synth don't have to be that expensive anymore. Back in the days of the Fairlight and Synclavier computer chips, especially memory chips, where really expensive. Adding a few megabytes of memory to a Fairlight in the early eighties cost a fortune. Nowadays it can all be done with small chips at the cost of a few dollars. Analog is a different story though. Especially when they recreate a vintage synth like the Moog 15/35/55. All those discrete and sometimes hard to find components are reflected in the high price.
As far as I am aware, the Fairlight CMI series-II reissues is flat fee $20,000 available from Mr. Vogel. Synclav seems to have died away somewhere in Massachussets probably? Now, when it comes to "analog", you should owe it to yourself to see teardown video of Dave Instruments Prophet 12. It's basically hollow inside. If the the newly released Sequential Prophet-6 with VCO's is similar, then the Prophet stands for Profit there. MS-20 mini and new ARP Odyssey are probably analog (although Dave Smith says it's just stupid to use analog chips for envelopes) and both within $1,000 range. My point is that the integrated circuits make the analog technology very cheap, too. Having said that, the $35,000 price tag for Moog 55 is not outrageous. After all this is what a fine Yamaha grand piano will cost you. And nobody seems to make any fuss about that, so not sure why would anybody make any fuss around the Moog, and neither do I. I am just saying that it makes more sense to have representives of all forms of synthesis, as opposed to just subtractive. But of course, I respect anybody buying the new Moog modulars. I am just saying that if I won a lottery, I wouldn't but the Moog. I'd try to gind Yamaha VP1 isntead, and maybe even contact Mr. Vogel about his Fairlight.
Andrew Piatek I think the new Fairlight is actually way overpriced. I just looked at the website and he's asking a whopping $25.000 for it. Ouch! Even with the nice keyboard, monitor and the limited production number it should not cost more than say $6000-8000 in my opinion. I think mister Vogel is just really trying to cash in on the name Fairlight. Different from the Moog, it's not an exact reissue of the original, but rather a new instrument based on the look and feel of the original. With modern chips and production, the cost should be a lot lower than back in the eighties. The Fairlight basically being a sampler, I don't see why you would really want to have this compared to more modern sampling options. Except for the cool look maybe.
The Dave Smith instruments are also new designs, allowing him like you said to use more integrated electronics and keep the price relative low. I would BTW not call the Prophet 12 analog. It's got digital oscillators. The filter is still the CEM one, but the sound is still very cold and digital in my opinion. The Prophet 6 on the other hand looks quite promising.
The Moog 15/35/55 are different because they are exact replicas of the original. Using the original circuit design and parts instead of relying on cheap integrated technology, makes all the difference. So yes I do think the price on those is not outrages taking this in consideration. They are unfortunately out of my price range though :(
And yes I agree there is a place for all types of sound generators, analog and digital. I like both for different reasons.
Years ago I had everything you wanted to hear on a Moog. It's really great to finally see how one works. Thanks for the video.
Omg, the Moog looks pretty fun. lol.
Good stuff. Thanks for posting.
That thing is one righteous piece equipment, definitely lne of greatest wonders of man's creativity. I could literally spend all my life with a Moog synth and explore only a fraction of the infinite soundscapes it can produce. I actually got here by listening to Mort Garson, one of the finest Moog synth players I know. Some of his stuff is beyond jawdropping and way ahead of its time for 1971, pure wizardry.
O.K., Santa. That's what I want in my stocking.
"We need a bigger stocking."
Thanks for watching! -_Daniel_
Um I would like to see if I can a rebuild of the moog system 55 for any amount
Great to see one of those close up. Incredible how Tomita created such great music using one and other 70’s electronics
Hi Peedlebum. I own quite a few Tomita records and CDs and cherish every one of them. I think my all-time favorite is The Planets. Thanks for watching!
Sweetwater me, too. It’s hard to pick a favourite but for me, I think it would be “The Engulfed Cathedral” from his really early work - 1974 I think.
The fixed filter bank with white noise was intriguing, band pass filters allowing science fiction spacecraft frequencies to pass thru. 🛸
Very impressive Dan.
I just closed my eyes and got sucked into a John carpenter film! This thing is like chess, over a billion possible outcomes from only a couple choices. From an engineering point of view it's just a result of additive and destructive interference but from an artistic standpoint this thing is a Ouija board
Hi Dan. Those are some very apt analog analogies!
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Amazing,I never expected to see an analog DJ from XX century.
What synth dreams are made of! Loved the spooky noises of band passed white noise.
It's truly amazing that the modular Moogs from 1969 can actually do hundreds of thousands of things that today's synthesizers can't do.
But for a modular synth it doesn't get much more vanilla than this.
my heart was begging the entire video for the intro to Karn Evil 9. Either way this instrument is mesmerizing !
Hi Metal Bob. Here are two different ways to get that sound:
th-cam.com/video/E0Ff4Tv93Rw/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/JtOn3DhhvJE/w-d-xo.html
Just got one! It will be here friday!!
"Hyper Gamma Spaces" by Alan Parson's Project, is one of my all time fave, I wonder if one of those where used to create it.
Even the buttons and knobs have buttons and knobs LOL I like it!
I worked with a band that was from D.C. I ended up playing with the guys down in Florida . The Band was called Bristol . Guy Meredith was in the band .He was one of the few guys that actually used one of these in the band .He studied electronic music . Talking back in 1973 74 . It is cool to see one in action again . Gee I can actually say I lived it .Getting old I guess .
Can you say ELP .
"ELP" Thanks for watching! -_Daniel_
the phat, rich unrivalled sound of analogue ~ priceless ~ digital will hardly ever even come close to the 'full'ness, the ambiance, the distinct quality of analogue
Wow that thing is amazing
the white noise via fixed filter bank was pretty sp00ky
Sounds like creepy whispers in a cave
Sound like gates from hell, howling of the death from hell.
The low pass + high pass had my mind immediately quote 2001: "Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
incredible machine
i never wanted to have anything so bad then this! how beautiful it must be… to play it live!❤️
I had to resubscribe twice? This is such a moog heavy weight! Those filters!
Daniel Fisher e seus teclados. Au!
¡Nunca vamos a ningún lado sin el otro!
I had to keep taking my headphones off, so intense. You have a good life sir.
Crazy I just looked it up and this thing is $35,000 man!!!!!
The Hot Pink Vegan You should consider Synthesizers.com systems. Somewhat cheaper with essentially the same power as the Moog.
Holy crap. The first concert I saw was EL&P. watching Keith Emerson Play his Moog. The raw sounds from it were awesome.
Oh, the extreme portability and ability to recall presets on the fly is the main a attraction to buy this thing. But thankfully it also sounds EPIC.
Hi DoomedDawn. You forgot to mention that it'll run 8 hours on four AA batteries. Thanks for watching!
Sweetwater Indeed... ;-)
The transition at 5:50 from like 5 patches to 50 patches is probably unintentionally funny, but I thought it was hilarious.
Leave it to Moog to actually make a clone of one of their past synths that is more or less 100% accurate and not some tiny boutique toy.
I'm freaking love this! my body feels the vibrate
By 1969 Hugo Montenegro had an Album entitled "Moog Power!!!!" - that is about the kind of electronic sinthetizer he used! -
Thank you, we watched this in class, 5.B (age 10-11), in Budapest, Hungary. It was very interesting! Children asked why we don't learn about these things in music class. Maybe they are right.
Terrific, especially the white noise
There was an album released in 1970s called "switched on Bach" - a suite of Bach's compositions played with the Moog synthesiser................it was a hit in Australia. Still got the Vinyl somewhere!!!
Stavros of yesteryear
3:05 Rush's "The Temples of Syrinx"
Hi fkcyber, 2112 is, without question, one of my favorite albums! Thanks for watching!
We are the priests
Of the temples of Syrinx!
This must have been the computers they were talking about
fkcyber Pretty sure I also heard some REO Speedwagon, Pink Floyd, and Emerson, Lake, & Palmer! ;)
YES. I knew it reminded me of something, but couldn't remember what. That's _exactly_ what I was thinking of. (the very beginning of the Overture, actually). Thank you!
He said in the beginning that he studied on one of these 35 years ago. Where would one go to study something like this in the modern day?
the past....
Imagine what one of those knobs feels like. Silky smooth.
Now try to imagine what 133 of those knobs feel like... -_Daniel_
Bill,and I drove up to Virginia Beach, 72, Damn good show.
Great demo, thanks. It is amazing to me the variety of sounds that come (came) from such a machine, with so few differing functions. You listen to stuff like Wakeman's from the early Moog time period and he made sounds that were totally recognizable (not perfect obviously) as vocal choirs, as opposed to anything else.
I remember the "old man" getting Wendy Carlos' Switched on Back when it first came out, and hearing the Moog for the first time on a rather awesome system he built (15 Altecs, the GOOD ones, 800 cycle horns in large cabinets, home designed and built amps with electronic crossovers (an engineer), and a crow bar overcurrent shutdown on the horns so you could POUND the things without fear of damage, in a paneled 24' X 24' Fl room built mostly for the stereo system, a fireplace, and a place to put the pool table). I was blown away the first time I heard both the stereo and the Switched on Bach (later), and just about played the oxide off that reel to reel tape (there were many many brown alcohol filled q tips)...those were the days....and so are these. And the pipe organ on those woofers...not quite my current Velodyne Servo subs equal, but awesome, nonetheless. An aside, when the wall sconce filaments were starting to get crummy in the livingroom wall sconces, the kids would always want me to "finish" them off with the sub, and my daughter, when she was young, called it the CyberWolf, instead of subwoofer...I thought that was awesome, too.
Amazing piece of art and technology! Thank you for this video!
Great demo showing what cannot be achieved with digital synths.
And hey nothing can replace the fun of playing with knobs and jacks.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Michel Raj hahahahhahahah
Michel Raj Yeah, but these cost a fortune, and the digitals don't.
technoshamanarchist And turquoise is also Darth Vader in a submarine.
***** Oh really? Wow... I could have sworn it was an overhead camshaft engine.
0:59 And that's when youtube cut out the high frequencys.
Haha actually it's not TH-cam. I can hear the oscillator until 1:01. It's where our ears cut out the high frequencies because it's outside human hearing range. Your dog heard it though lol.
chefzabi ok, i just checked the timecode i used, and i can also hear it until 1:01. But i know that youtube cuts off frequencies above something like 20 khz.
+StarTrek123456 It makes sense, many many people can't hear above 18kHz or something. Although for mostly young people, this is a pitty :)
Don't listen to music on TH-cam!
MikroXdrums I just listened to music on spotify when i read your comment. Illuminati confirmed? :D
+MikroXdrums You can hear up to 18kHz until - well about 8 years. Then your ability slowly drops. A normal middle age adult may hear up to 12 - 14kHz. So you can imagine how it will be when you´re old.
Wow beautiful
Riding the Storm Out. Never Been Any Reason, won't Get Fooled Again.
Hundreds of"Patches" that define our Rock and Roll heritage.
Outstanding video!!!
I hope the children born after 2K can grasp ahold.
Thank you so much!!!!!
Born 2000 here, love synths ! Here thanks to mainly foreigner!
God starts to speak to me after 04:24... oh man..