#184

I believe Coffeeshopped Patchbase has an FB-01 editor, but its $20 or $30. Basically Patchbase is free but there are then in-app purchases to add editors for the various synths. Since the data is just Sysex and Live 10 / Max4Live now support Sysex, it’s possible to create Sysex editors in Max4Live, where the parameters can also then be easily automated or saved with a project.

#185

Legend has it that this was used on Biosphere’s Substrata album. :smile:

#186

Just seen this. It’s one for those with deep pockets!

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#187

This is clearly a hidden tax on sixteen fingered aliens who need our earth technology to make their flying saucers sound good…

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#188

I’d really like to see a picture of some other part of the synth. The moog logo is very pleasant though.

#189

If you need to see a picture of it, you cant afford it.

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#190

here is a lot of pics: https://imgur.com/a/Iedm1Ip

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#191

Ah, also pleasant! So many little OLED screens.

Now I wonder what it sounds like.

#192

I just wanna hear James Blake riff on one.

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#193

A little more here…

#194

16 voice Moog One group buy/time share?
US$7999/100 people = US$80 each
would you pay US$80 to have it for 3.6 days each year?

(would need to be 100 people geographically close
but i would totally invest in an instrument library/shared resource like this)

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#195

Some more pictures here https://www.gearnews.com/more-moog-one-images-leaked-online-and-its-gorgeous/

Quiet a bunch of nice things on this, really like that it has two filters and the option for both filters to function as high-pass. Not sure about the big screen though, doesn’t really match with the rest of the UX/aesthetic imho, but we’ll see, maybe it’s very useful.

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#196

agreed, the screen gives off a workstation vibe that I’m not especially fond of, but I can understand why they need at least some screen for preset management and such.

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#197

the xy pad looks like the most intriguing part of the interface to me—i’ve personally never found pitch and mod wheels particularly playable, so to speak, while the equivalent matrix in ableton has always felt contrastingly expressive when properly mapped.

#198

an update on :computer: VST SEARCH TWENTY-EIGHTEEN :robot:

I decided to go with Bazille. Out of everything I tried, I liked it the most. It’s interface is deep but simple overall, and an entire patch is visible at once. Sounds great, 16 voice polyphony, and it doesn’t break my CPU. The phase modulation and distortion on it is soooo good.

Zebra also sounds great, and I love the Zebrify effect that comes with it, but I cannot stand the interface and trying to keep track of all the modules and routings I’ve placed in a patch.

The Arturia Easel is very cool but it’s only 4 voices so it doesn’t make sense at this point.

Kaivo… I’m torn about. I love the way it sounds but it behaves unexpectedly a lot of the time and I’ve been frustrated with the interface so far. I’m also finding that it doesn’t sit well with the rest of my compositions. I’ve gotten the best results from just sampling little pieces from it into my Digitakt and working with them from there. So it’s a maybe/probably but not right now.

Aalto sounds cool but it’s also limited to 4 voices so not what I’m looking for at the moment.

Thanks for the suggestions, y’all!

#199

Kaivo is an odd one. I feel like I should like it, but each time I fire up the demo it just doesn’t click with me. Which is weird, because I love the sound of Aalto (even if I find fine tweaks, especially to modulation amounts, occasionally fiddly to accomplish).

I’m really looking forward to Sumu though!

#200

not sure if anyone’s in the market but this beauty just popped up:

https://reverb.com/item/15671113-roland-mks-50-analog-6-voice-synth-with-pg-300-controller

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#201

I don’t feel like it’s weird that Aalto would click with someone and not Kaivo—though the interfaces are similar I tried hard to give them very different sonic personalities. Same for Virta and the upcoming Sumu.

At some point Aalto 2.0 will come out with eight or more voices, but that’s after Sumu. When I released Aalto, four voices was taking up a lot of most people’s CPUs, both in display and DSP. Since then I’ve optimized my code a lot and computers have gotten faster.

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#202

What really did for me with aalto was the oscillator section and modulation. the variable waveshape + timbre controls really let you produce some beautiful evolving pad sounds. This alone justifies the price.

The filters and lpg were ok but the whole digital filter thing, in my opinion, generally deteriorates into a DSP pissing contest anyway. Some are terrible, most are ok, and some are legitimately cool but probably took months of tweaking to reach that point. None are objectively better than even my shittiest analogue filters.

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#203

this feels significant if only because moog is confident it can turn a profit on a $6k/$8k synthesizer in 2018. i’m interested, it sounds (and looks) beautiful, but it’s definitely not for me. curious what everyone else thinks about it.

the age old question comes to mind: in a world where softsynths can sound nearly identical to uberexpensive hardware and bedroom recordings can sounds just about as good as stuff made in pro studios, what is worth a premium? i’m not sure of exactly how to articulate it, but this feels like the exact opposite of what happened to modular synths between keith emerson’s heyday and today. i’m not saying that’s necessarily a bad thing, just a thing.

youtube comment award goes to:

Moog One is a polysynth? You also need to make a monosynth called Moog Poly. Otherwise the whole lineup doesn’t make sense.

edit: it looks like this was covered in the polysynths thread; not sure if this needs a separate thread

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