Moog Model D back in production

[stoken6]

Just now, KuruPrionz said:

That, plus "the notes that are wrong", those are fun too!!!!

Do you know, I've just spent half an hour transcribing a few licks full of "wrong" (OK, "altered") notes, and it's very cool.

 

The notes from the I pentatonic over the V - now that's wrong and uncool. (I tire of the "fourth degree of the V mixolydian" sound very quickly).

 

Cheers, Mike.

[KuruPrionz]

Just now, stoken6 said:

Do you know, I've just spent half an hour transcribing a few licks full of "wrong" (OK, "altered") notes, and it's very cool.

 

The notes from the I pentatonic over the V - now that's wrong and uncool. (I tire of the "fourth degree of the V mixolydian" sound very quickly).

 

Cheers, Mike.

Honestly, I don't think at all when I play guitar. Chord shapes are a fundamental part of my thoughtless expression of music. I do know my pentatonic majors and minors everywhere on the neck, I know what all the notes are on every string and every fret but I just let things "flow through me". 

Inexplicable, I know. You might have to be an autistic left-handed (who plays right handed) sort of human to get it. 

 

There are so many variants on notes that are NOT on the tempered scale but in-between. Much of the music in the world is not based on 12 evenly spaced notes, Middle Eastern, Indian and African musics have different scales, some with more notes than 12. Native singing up here (I've been to a few Lummi celebrations) are not correctly playable on a standard piano either. I don't know enough about European tempered notation to know if or how that is dealt with but maybe you do. 

On the other hand, a keyboard like the Moog CAN play those notes, it's more a matter of listening and understanding these different approaches. 

 

I've been tempted a few times to switch to fretless bass but I scalloped the fretboard on my Strat instead. Freedom to play the notes that are wrong!!! 

[GRollins]

I, too, seem to recall hearing that there was some component that was in short supply for the Moog D reissue, but I don't know where I saw it. I don't recall that it specified what part it was, so it's not as though I can go look in my parts bins to see whether I have any.

 

C3P0: "If any of my circuits or gears will help, I'll gladly donate them!"

(On seeing R2D2's smoldering carcass after blowing up the Death Star. I may be a word or two off, but you catch my drift.)

 

At least for me, I'd be quite all right with using modern 1% metal film resistors, rather than 5%, 10%, or worse yet, 20%, carbon comp resistors. Upgrades like that wouldn't offend me in the least, although I'm sure they'd be anathema to a purist. Capacitors? Oi! Now, there you'd be opening multiple cans of worms. I'd have to make part-by-part decisions on that. My guess is that the real booger is the semiconductors, though. Even if you find a supposed cache of NOS transistors these days, you have to worry about whether they're counterfeit.

 

Grey

[GovernorSilver]

1 hour ago, RABid said:

 

I really do hope Moog does well with the reissue Model D. Success enables them to fund more interesting instruments like the DFAM which is probably my favorite Moog purchase over the last 20 years.

 

That the way I see it too.   May the revenue from the latest reissue fund more cool projects.

 

I wouldn't mind if the revenue also funded more firmware updates/bug fixes for the Matriarch and other firmware dependent Moog gear.

 

In general I don't have a problem with Moog Music making money.  It keeps the employees, well, employed.

[analogika]

5 hours ago, GRollins said:

Kinda like when I heard that there was a New & Improved cut of Star Wars on the way--I got rid of my trusty VHS set. Bought the newfangled DVD set, only to find that...WTF?...Greedo shot first??? WHAT??? Gawd, I wish I had my old VHS set back. My boys have never seen the cantina scene properly.

 

Despecialised is the only way to watch Star Wars: https://goo.gl/1WGHBA

 

It is absolutely worth the effort. They're fantastic. 

 

Go download them! 

[NewImprov]

7 hours ago, RABid said:

Well, I just ordered a Behringer Model D. For the going price of $261 it is hard to pass up and will sit nicely next to my Behringer 2600. Gives me a nostalgia fix without raiding my Jupiter X fund. I plan to MIDI it to a keyboard, play along with "Just What I Needed" and see for myself if osc 2 has fallen out of tune by the time the first synth solo comes around. 

 

I really do hope Moog does well with the reissue Model D. Success enables them to fund more interesting instruments like the DFAM which is probably my favorite Moog purchase over the last 20 years.

I just got a Behringer Model D myself, and, yeah, it does sit nicely next to my BaRP 2600. I've barely had a few hours to play with it since it arrived, and I haven't had a chance to put it up against my OG Mini Model D. My first impressions are that it doesn't quite have the depth of sound of the Mini, but it sounds damn good. Offhand, I'd say it has a little more bass than my Mini. It definitely sounds better to my ears than the Mother 32, which has always sounded kind of generic to me. I will probably keep the Mini, the B Model D, and the Mother 32. These are pretty wonderful times to be an analog synth nerd!

 

And, yeah, I love love LOVE my DFAM! It's the most fun I've ever had with a drum machine. Every time I work with it, I get something cool.