In the mid-70s, when Moog was in the ascendancy, composer Mort Garson created an album for plant life and its owners (or caretakers). Mother Earth’s Plantasia had the tagline “warm earth music for plants… and the people who love them.” The history suggests it was never going to be a […]
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Italian synth manufacture Crumar has announced it will be relaunching a modern version of the classic Spirit synth, forty years after it was first released in the early 1980s. In fairness, the idea is not new and the company is not the original, however there have been movements on the […]
Behringer has just launched its “tribute” to the classic Moog analog audio gear with the BODE Frequency Shifter 1630 in Eurorack format. Claiming to be an authentic recreation of the famous ’70s module, it features state-of-the-art circuitry including a voltage-controlled beat frequency quadrature oscillator. It can accurately shift the entire […]
AJHSynth has launched the MiniMod Keyz synth as a modular mono synth featuring much acclaimed MiniMod modules, recreating the vintage circuitry and sound of the early Moog Model D in a Eurorack modular format. It can be used as a standalone keyboard synth or expanded further by patching it to […]
GAIKA – War Island industrial soundscapes sound pack Spitfire Audio has announced the availability of its GAIKI War Island sounds pack offering multidimensional, evolving sounds from the beating heart of London’s industrial underground. Featuring harsh bassy synth drones, tape-processed drums, pads, leads and warped vocal effects, these expansive sounds are […]
If circuit bending is your thing, check out the three finalists at this year’s Moog Circuit Bending Challenge. Watch videos of Jeff Boynton, Daniel Baum and Dr Moonstien as they do some serious mods to a CX-500, Fujitone II and a ‘guitar sequencer thingumajig’. Read more
Moog Music has announced that only 40 more Voyager Old School synthesizers will be built. If you need some encouragement to go and get a first (or second) Voyager OS, take a look at what Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman has to say: “Only Bob Moog could come up with a […]
