I think when osc sync is engaged the pitch wheel only affects osc 2 pitch, so you can do your screaming sync leads using the wheel rather than osc 2 pitch knob. Source - watching Howard Jones doing What Is Love? :)
Sh!t you’re right! I remember doing that and couldn’t work out while I was recording if I was dreaming it 🤦♂️ but you’re right it absolutely does that.
@@StarskyCarr Came here to post the same thing! :) Yep, can't believe you missed that - it's by far the Prodigy's best feature/sound! This was my first "proper" synth, loved that thing. Mine had the extra ports on the back so I could MIDI it too. It's an *ideal* starter synth too, due to it's simplicity and layout.
@@mu_zines What's even more annoying is that I was playing with it doing just that last week... (first time in years though) and while I was demoing there was a niggle - saying playing the pitchbend - but a different part of the brain kicked in telling me there was no point.. pitch bends just affect the overall pitch. What makes it even worse is the pitch wheel has always been nicotine stained because the original owner played like that a lot. Again, something I know! hey ho.. can't believe it escaped me.
@@StarskyCarr The Prodigy's sync bend sound is quite unique among synths (I"m still waiting for a plugin to replicate that properly - it's a proper screamer!). As well as the sync-bend thing, because the pitch wheel has a decently wide range it's possible to significantly extend the tonal range of the oscillators by finding positions that sound interesting. Thanks for doing the vids, I enjoy them!
I paid £40 for a MkII Prodigy in the early 90s. It was more or less new in the box, it was an unwanted Christmas present that had been stuck in the loft for over a decade. Lookout for the MkII models made after 1981 as they're the only ones with CV/Gate.
The Moog mono-synths of that era have an unbeatable hard sync sound. My first synth was an MG-1 and I have never found another synth with a sweeter sync sound.
This is why Starsky's channel is so great (and DIFFERENT) from other SynthTuber channels - he pulls a forgotten jewel like this out that is completely outside the current spotlight, and demonstrates why it's still valid and still great. Content like this isn't the result of a company trying to push its current wares, it's about the real history and love of synths. Well done!
It’s been in production since 2015. It’s scheduled to ship in 2035, so there’s not much of wait in comparison to most of their products. I have one on pre-order!
This is the best I have ever heard the Prodigy. Disregarded it when I first got into synths back in the 90's. Remember when they were £250-300. If this video had existed then, I definitely would have bought one. Another great video.
Probably the best old Moog monosynth. The sound, simplicity to control and morph, fun, it just has greatness it in spades! If you've got one, as I have, it will be the last synth you'll want to sell! It's like a family pet for us synth-nuts. It's just one continuous sweet-spot synth to tweak around with. Fabulous!
I remember back in the day for me, it was either this, or the Rogue. I went for the Rogue without really giving the Prodigy the proper shakedown! Thanks tons for this!
What an amazing little piece of history. Simplified as to provide that magic timbre without the cost of more features, all in a time before it was so easy to obtain. Roughly 600 dollars at release is roughly 1750 usd now - Just about the cost of a matriarch. I really like the idea of a moog like this, features and size/price remind me of the Little Phatty in some ways. Nowadays I think moog wants to cram features into new synths since the market is now so flooded with good intro gear.
Aaah, my first Moog! I loved it despite its limited features. In *sync* mode the pitch wheel affects Osc 2 only IIRC. So you don‘t need to turn the interval knob.
I modded mine to add filter frequency modulation by VCO2 and it’s another beast. I also made the Cv/gate/filter in mods and programmed my own puredata midi/cv interface adding LFO, pitch enveloppes etc… It is on another level now. I would love to have the filter enveloppe modulating the VCO2 pitch for sync effects but no easy can do according to my synth repair guy. The pitch bend/ mod are oddly calibrated. Never change or lose the pots or you will lose some depth.
What a glorious synth. I've just been enjoying your demo with my cats, Cluskey and Humpy. They like it, too, but I guess that's not surprising. I think we've all agreed that's a hard want now.
I loved playing with my mate's Prodigy back in 1984. I think he only got it because I had an Korg MS-10 and wanted to show off, but I could be wrong. I was jealous anyway. Thanks for the video. I've been trying to remember what it was like for decades. 🙂👍
My synth band in the 80s had one of these. We used to shake glasses off of tables with it. The other guy in the band still has it, and will not part with it.
Haha. Love it. I was just thinking sounds like a mix between the Stranglers and Human League and the Human League pops up. I think it should be a requirement for synth channels to elicit some laughs in the process.
These old vintage moogs sound so much bigger and fatter than the newer ones. I had an opus 3 a while back and it just sounded so much better than my matriarch. Obviously two different types of synth, but when you strip them back to the raw sound you notice the difference
Great to see this little synth getting the love it deserves. Don't know if you covered it, but if you place the LFO shape switch half way between the two (like the hidden piano trick on the Reface CP) the speed of the LFO is not only changed, but the sync and pitch bend becomes way extreme. Hard to describe, you just have to do it and hear the results. I found this out on some post years ago, and mine (an old pre-CV unit) does this trick. The Sub Phatty and new Sub-25 are the closest modern replacements I've found for playing live. Plus you can sync the OSC wave point starts ala Taurus-Minitaur bass punch.
I was considering doing a flash card demo… randomly selecting cards with various instructions/parameter settings to see how far I could take it without it sounding bad…
First real (non virtual) analog mono I ever touched. To this day I still think about getting one. I think I spent about 2 hours with it at Guitar Center when I first saw it. One big sweet spot indeed!
Always fun to get a mega simple synth and see how many sounds you can get from it. This is pretty extreme in terms of minimal features, but it does sound ace. I turned down many of these over the years because they are poorly built and flimsy and always needed work. Plus, most were the no CV models that needed modding. Now I look at the current price of them and I should have bought them all and sat on them.😥 Btw - enjoyed your ironic 83 musical interlude. 😀
i like this synth very much! it has a fat and warm sound and is very easy to use. i guess it is underestimated as a synth and as a moog because it was not designed by bob moog himself but by rich walborn and tony marchese. but it does sound and look like moog all the same.
I would suggest Mrs Carr hides the sherry in future to prevent further vocal outbreaks. Excellent review as either though. I could have purchased one of these when they were sold new but passed up the opportunity.
I actually really like the song, since it’s about the hollowness of wanting gear Just because one of your musical inspirations liked them. I remember wanting (and sometimes getting!) various synths or guitars because a friend or celebrity used them, instead of following my own style. And then wondering why it felt so empty and I couldn’t channel what they were channeling. Once I finally started to ignore consensus wisdom and find weird ones I loved, I felt much more in touch with my music. I’m sure the appeal of the Prodigy goes beyond the lyrics of the song for you of course! But it’s definitely a very real feeling. It’s kinda funny, I was always a bit confused when people described a filter as particularly musical. I’d go “oh that sounds nice” but I wasn’t sure what it was I was really hearing. Until I heard this one acting all wonky! It hit me that even a filter which hasn’t got the resonance super high, will accentuate or quash different harmonics than others by their various characteristics. Slope, intensity, and so on. So, thanks for that!
My goodness. Limited feature set indeed, yet that raw oscillator & sync tone notably is bloody FANTASTIC. I would totally delight in a video that compares strictly the sync sounds of various classic synthesizers. Like, how does the Prodigy sync sound compare to Pro One and Oberheim SEM? Cheers!
How did this compare with the Realistic MG-1? On the surface they seem similar - I never really wanted a Prodigy or heard much about it, but I do remember wanting the MG-1 badly back when I had no cash in school. I mean, you could see a MG-1 in the Radio Shack catalog!
I used to do this thing with mine where you put the LFO on OSC Mod and wedge the LFO waveform between triangle and square and if you got it in the right spot it would make an ascending tremendous squeal when you turned the modwheel up.
In a big way, the Grandmother taps into the Prodigy’s sound and relative simplicity. Of course, the the Granny has more possibilities, but it is a pretty simple synth with great oscillator sync. Prodigy has the better name. I wish Moog had just given us a rerelease of the Prodigy rather than the Grandmother. That said, the Granny will do.
My friend Larry owns one and back in the 1990’s he loaned it to me and I used it on 3 original tunes I wrote. Day Of The Moog I Was A Fool To Believe In You Minor Leagues I can post all three they’re here on UA-cam.
The front panel looks like "please, mod me! I'm so naked... Where are my knobs?" :)) I guess there is a lot of free space inside. According in those time was no SMD parts it should be pretty easy to mod.
I’m shaw you said that in irony. But that’s my goal. I have 2 moogs and a minibrut 2 my Digitakt and digitone have to go because I need a solena and a vc 340 and to top it off a Mellotron mini. I an using a drumbrute but would like a DRM IV to go with it. Your pads look good. Fantastic. Thanks
Quick question: Do you know how the cherry audio miniverse holds up against other emulations or the real thing? I've read good things, it seems to be rescource-friendly (which I like a lot in production). I think I'm gonna give it a spin.
I had one of these many years back and I don't know what I did with it. I would of kept it if I'd of still had it now. My first and only Moog I've had and was my first proper synth, can't really count the PSS780 I had around the same time although the PSS780 was a good keyboard.
Sounds "Housy" around 14:50. I guess if you do a chord using the filter as an oscillator you could do some House organ sounds with those non-diatonic chord progressions normally associated to transposing chords on sampler pads
When Liam Howlett came to name the band who would crossover every genre and change everything, he definitely made the right choice. 'W30' would have been a terrible name for a band.
if you set osc 2 to square and turn sync on , then put osc 1 higher than 2 or the reverse i can't remember and use pitch bend in negative value (down) then you can do PWM
yeah there's a bit of a workaround - similar to the JX3P. I couldn't remember exactly what it was when making this, but sync was the secret. Cheers. Wish I'd covered that now!!
@@StarskyCarr Not wrong at all. A few things added, a few things taken away, but fundamentally the same synth. The Rogue was my first ever synth. What a Christmas that was!
This was my first and only* Moog synth. I think I paid $200-250 for it back in the 80s. I wish I kept it. :-( * - I had a Realistic Concertmate MG-1 too for a while, which sorta counts, but wasn’t Moog-branded.
"IT IS One Huge Sweet Spot" would have been a more helpful title for English as 2nd language folks. (Even I first thought your title meant it IT HAS one huge sweet spot.) Our doomed language aside, excellent introduction to a somewhat odd Moog I always coveted (not designed by Bob Moog personally), that was used superbly by influential German female band Malaria.
Never thought of that… if it was possessive it would be spelt its not it’s but that’s defo probably too subtle for non-native speakers (although maybe not considering how well that can speak it 😂). I deleted a whole section about the history of Moog and the Norlin Corp etc as it lost the flow. But the gist was that luckily for us they never dropped the ball like they did with Gibson.
@@t55a2 I have beatstep pro that can translate MIDI to CV from any other MIDI-enabled synth. And I was doing just that but it has some downsides that are too critical for me. With CV you can't go lower than C0 because that's minimum V/Oct standard. You can't also have portamento because you can't just have one key held with one finger while pressing another - it's a uniform voltage that goes straight to oscillator frequency, which is quite limiting for me. MIDI by design is always polyphonic and even basic monosynths with MIDI do process simultaneous key presses. I can always play a synth by hand but old synths don't usually have good or reliable keybeds (or are just worn out) and they often require maintenance.
Hah I know… and I did know and for some reason I completely forgot.. so many comments on it now 🤦♂️😂 I was even playing with it last week when I was deciding what to demo. No idea how I forgot!
@@StarskyCarr I had mine back when it came out, you do get carried away, when playing it, it was the sort of synth, that you could think of a sound and patch it, just by thinking and imagining the sound.
I think when osc sync is engaged the pitch wheel only affects osc 2 pitch, so you can do your screaming sync leads using the wheel rather than osc 2 pitch knob.
Source - watching Howard Jones doing What Is Love? :)
Sh!t you’re right! I remember doing that and couldn’t work out while I was recording if I was dreaming it 🤦♂️ but you’re right it absolutely does that.
@@StarskyCarr Came here to post the same thing! :) Yep, can't believe you missed that - it's by far the Prodigy's best feature/sound! This was my first "proper" synth, loved that thing. Mine had the extra ports on the back so I could MIDI it too. It's an *ideal* starter synth too, due to it's simplicity and layout.
@@mu_zines What's even more annoying is that I was playing with it doing just that last week... (first time in years though) and while I was demoing there was a niggle - saying playing the pitchbend - but a different part of the brain kicked in telling me there was no point.. pitch bends just affect the overall pitch. What makes it even worse is the pitch wheel has always been nicotine stained because the original owner played like that a lot. Again, something I know! hey ho.. can't believe it escaped me.
But playing the sync via the knob was such a great idea.
@@StarskyCarr The Prodigy's sync bend sound is quite unique among synths (I"m still waiting for a plugin to replicate that properly - it's a proper screamer!). As well as the sync-bend thing, because the pitch wheel has a decently wide range it's possible to significantly extend the tonal range of the oscillators by finding positions that sound interesting. Thanks for doing the vids, I enjoy them!
I paid £40 for a MkII Prodigy in the early 90s. It was more or less new in the box, it was an unwanted Christmas present that had been stuck in the loft for over a decade. Lookout for the MkII models made after 1981 as they're the only ones with CV/Gate.
The Moog mono-synths of that era have an unbeatable hard sync sound. My first synth was an MG-1 and I have never found another synth with a sweeter sync sound.
This is why Starsky's channel is so great (and DIFFERENT) from other SynthTuber channels - he pulls a forgotten jewel like this out that is completely outside the current spotlight, and demonstrates why it's still valid and still great. Content like this isn't the result of a company trying to push its current wares, it's about the real history and love of synths. Well done!
The core tone is just amazing. Might need one, so simple but amazing sound.
This is BEGGING for a comparison video with the Grandmother.
It on my list ;) and thanks for the lovely comment.
I agree! I have one and this looks like the Grandmother in form factor.
Man, that 606 is so darkwave!
A great candidate for Behringer's authentic re-creation moves.
It’s been in production since 2015. It’s scheduled to ship in 2035, so there’s not much of wait in comparison to most of their products. I have one on pre-order!
🤮
Behringer presents The gifted Child.
@@79Glitch 20 years?
@@HOLLASOUNDS Yeah, it’s sick! I can’t wait. There’s some scuttlebutt that it could even come as soon as early 2030’s.
This is the best I have ever heard the Prodigy. Disregarded it when I first got into synths back in the 90's. Remember when they were £250-300. If this video had existed then, I definitely would have bought one. Another great video.
Andy Fletcher used one if these in the very early days of Depeche Mode when they used beer-crates for keyboard stands.
Probably the best old Moog monosynth. The sound, simplicity to control and morph, fun, it just has greatness it in spades! If you've got one, as I have, it will be the last synth you'll want to sell! It's like a family pet for us synth-nuts. It's just one continuous sweet-spot synth to tweak around with. Fabulous!
I remember back in the day for me, it was either this, or the Rogue. I went for the Rogue without really giving the Prodigy the proper shakedown! Thanks tons for this!
Wow! I wish my sub 37 sounded this good. Thanks for another great video.
The Sub and Subsequent have their own sound. And both are magnificent.
But the oscillator sync on those can’t compare.
What an amazing little piece of history. Simplified as to provide that magic timbre without the cost of more features, all in a time before it was so easy to obtain.
Roughly 600 dollars at release is roughly 1750 usd now - Just about the cost of a matriarch.
I really like the idea of a moog like this, features and size/price remind me of the Little Phatty in some ways. Nowadays I think moog wants to cram features into new synths since the market is now so flooded with good intro gear.
One of the best Moog ever, I liked it much. Howard Jones had 2 of them on stage hehe.
He used to strap one on and dance around the stage...
Aaah, my first Moog! I loved it despite its limited features.
In *sync* mode the pitch wheel affects Osc 2 only IIRC. So you don‘t need to turn the interval knob.
Mine too😊 I had the MK1, so no CV. For that reason I eventually sold it, nowadays I have the Grandmother. The Sync on that is pretty nice too 😊😊😊
Love your vocal track! Really captures that vibe
It’s so lean, in features, but very phat, in sound...nice. Very nice.
Its a twisted little fire starter 🔥
A punkin' instigator
Excellent demo as always! It’s so interesting to me how great vintage Moog triangle waves sound
It seems comes with “83 Singing Skills Pack! Cool song , cool Moog 😎
My mate bought one second hand in the 80s for £30. It sounded amazing. Wanted one ever since.
I modded mine to add filter frequency modulation by VCO2 and it’s another beast. I also made the Cv/gate/filter in mods and programmed my own puredata midi/cv interface adding LFO, pitch enveloppes etc… It is on another level now. I would love to have the filter enveloppe modulating the VCO2 pitch for sync effects but no easy can do according to my synth repair guy.
The pitch bend/ mod are oddly calibrated. Never change or lose the pots or you will lose some depth.
What a glorious synth. I've just been enjoying your demo with my cats, Cluskey and Humpy. They like it, too, but I guess that's not surprising. I think we've all agreed that's a hard want now.
You're sounding positively Gary Numanesque!
Awesome video. Always makes me smile when you explore a synthesizer I already own.💪🏻😎👍🏻
great video. bought mine in 1980 (original batch)..still have it and love it!
Nice, Mr.Starsky. Nice.
I've got the mg-1 and love it. Basically the rogue
Depeche Mode & Howard Jones rocked the Prodigy IMO. GREAT DEMO!
T.Reznors first synth!
Coming soon… Vince Clarke’s first synth 😉
I love it, I want one.
Seems to be the same category and approximate form factor as a Roland SH-101 but with that classic Moog sound.
Nice idea for a vid
Great song mate!
I loved playing with my mate's Prodigy back in 1984. I think he only got it because I had an Korg MS-10 and wanted to show off, but I could be wrong. I was jealous anyway. Thanks for the video. I've been trying to remember what it was like for decades. 🙂👍
Thanks man, love that review! I think I need one now… 😅 And keep spicing it up with the vocals!!
My synth band in the 80s had one of these. We used to shake glasses off of tables with it. The other guy in the band still has it, and will not part with it.
I seem to remember Howard Jones playing these. Very nice synth.
Amazing sound, legendary power. Thanks for the review!)
Moogs fav synth. I was doing some stuff for "Vaz Mod" and we created a 3D Moog Prodigy. you could move it around in a 3D environment.
Definitely one of the coolest vintage synths. Love the part where you try to make it sound bad on purpose but it just gets better.
Haha. Love it. I was just thinking sounds like a mix between the Stranglers and Human League and the Human League pops up. I think it should be a requirement for synth channels to elicit some laughs in the process.
Had one when I was playing live back in the late 70s/early 80s. Loved it. Had a Prophet Pro 1 as well.
These old vintage moogs sound so much bigger and fatter than the newer ones. I had an opus 3 a while back and it just sounded so much better than my matriarch. Obviously two different types of synth, but when you strip them back to the raw sound you notice the difference
Great to see this little synth getting the love it deserves. Don't know if you covered it, but if you place the LFO shape switch half way between the two (like the hidden piano trick on the Reface CP) the speed of the LFO is not only changed, but the sync and pitch bend becomes way extreme. Hard to describe, you just have to do it and hear the results. I found this out on some post years ago, and mine (an old pre-CV unit) does this trick. The Sub Phatty and new Sub-25 are the closest modern replacements I've found for playing live. Plus you can sync the OSC wave point starts ala Taurus-Minitaur bass punch.
awesome cute songwriting and singing... .
i love analog machines at arriving my sixties.
encounted such nostalgic song... .
As you say, hard to get a bad sound. Every setting you played was very usable.
Enjoyed the ode to 83 😄
I was considering doing a flash card demo… randomly selecting cards with various instructions/parameter settings to see how far I could take it without it sounding bad…
First real (non virtual) analog mono I ever touched. To this day I still think about getting one. I think I spent about 2 hours with it at Guitar Center when I first saw it. One big sweet spot indeed!
Always fun to get a mega simple synth and see how many sounds you can get from it. This is pretty extreme in terms of minimal features, but it does sound ace.
I turned down many of these over the years because they are poorly built and flimsy and always needed work. Plus, most were the no CV models that needed modding. Now I look at the current price of them and I should have bought them all and sat on them.😥
Btw - enjoyed your ironic 83 musical interlude. 😀
Plus its a lot easier to demo them!! Love that as I'm doing this you're working your way through the Model 10.... bananas.
Dude! I should have bought one of these a long time ago, I was thinking about this vs the grand mother! You should totally do that!
this is the Moog Sub Phatty from the 70s and 80s 😁
i love to drink and synth.
i like this synth very much! it has a fat and warm sound and is very easy to use. i guess it is underestimated as a synth and as a moog because it was not designed by bob moog himself but by rich walborn and tony marchese. but it does sound and look like moog all the same.
The Prodigy and the Pro One are my two most coveted synths. Might have to buy one of them for Christmas!
Ace opening song by the way.
Grandmother kicks the prodigy's arse 😄
I would suggest Mrs Carr hides the sherry in future to prevent further vocal outbreaks.
Excellent review as either though. I could have purchased one of these when they were sold new but passed up the opportunity.
I actually really like the song, since it’s about the hollowness of wanting gear Just because one of your musical inspirations liked them. I remember wanting (and sometimes getting!) various synths or guitars because a friend or celebrity used them, instead of following my own style. And then wondering why it felt so empty and I couldn’t channel what they were channeling. Once I finally started to ignore consensus wisdom and find weird ones I loved, I felt much more in touch with my music.
I’m sure the appeal of the Prodigy goes beyond the lyrics of the song for you of course! But it’s definitely a very real feeling.
It’s kinda funny, I was always a bit confused when people described a filter as particularly musical. I’d go “oh that sounds nice” but I wasn’t sure what it was I was really hearing. Until I heard this one acting all wonky! It hit me that even a filter which hasn’t got the resonance super high, will accentuate or quash different harmonics than others by their various characteristics. Slope, intensity, and so on. So, thanks for that!
I got the Sub25 - luckily Moog R&D only adds one new knob per decade!
😂
My goodness. Limited feature set indeed, yet that raw oscillator & sync tone notably is bloody FANTASTIC. I would totally delight in a video that compares strictly the sync sounds of various classic synthesizers. Like, how does the Prodigy sync sound compare to Pro One and Oberheim SEM? Cheers!
The band the prodigy was named after this synthesizer
My first synth back in 1981 and I’ve still got it. I’ll never sell it.
How did this compare with the Realistic MG-1? On the surface they seem similar - I never really wanted a Prodigy or heard much about it, but I do remember wanting the MG-1 badly back when I had no cash in school. I mean, you could see a MG-1 in the Radio Shack catalog!
I used to do this thing with mine where you put the LFO on OSC Mod and wedge the LFO waveform between triangle and square and if you got it in the right spot it would make an ascending tremendous squeal when you turned the modwheel up.
LOVE IT
Your singing is amazing!👏👏👏
In a big way, the Grandmother taps into the Prodigy’s sound and relative simplicity. Of course, the the Granny has more possibilities, but it is a pretty simple synth with great oscillator sync.
Prodigy has the better name.
I wish Moog had just given us a rerelease of the Prodigy rather than the Grandmother. That said, the Granny will do.
My friend Larry owns one and back in the 1990’s he loaned it to me and I used it on 3 original tunes I wrote.
Day Of The Moog
I Was A Fool To Believe In You
Minor Leagues
I can post all three they’re here on UA-cam.
I'm a musician, not a nerd. Love it and want one! Ha ha Sounds great. :}
Newsflash! Moog Prodigy Reverb prices suddenly double!
...introducing... the Behringer Prodigy
The front panel looks like "please, mod me! I'm so naked... Where are my knobs?" :)) I guess there is a lot of free space inside. According in those time was no SMD parts it should be pretty easy to mod.
It inspired the prodigy from this synth …. Legend
Martin Gore's first synth the Prodigy!! The dude from Depeche Mode
He's there in the final scene of the Kids in '83 track..
i've got an old prodigy that sounds pretty rad, but im thinking about seeing if i can get it fixed up bc it is a little busted
Hey I don’t know where you live but belltone synthworks outside of Philadelphia got my prodigy all fixed up for a reasonable price.
Great sound and a great presentation.
LUV that song!!!! wow....I traded a cs-50 for a Prodigy in the 90's lol A simple mod is osc fm of the filter. Takes the synth up a notch.
cool
I’m shaw you said that in irony. But that’s my goal. I have 2 moogs and a minibrut 2 my Digitakt and digitone have to go because I need a solena and a vc 340 and to top it off a Mellotron mini. I an using a drumbrute but would like a DRM IV to go with it. Your pads look good. Fantastic. Thanks
Micro moog is also insane
Yeah would love to get hold of one or a Multimooog
Youre right about the singing (or, wrong )
Quick question: Do you know how the cherry audio miniverse holds up against other emulations or the real thing? I've read good things, it seems to be rescource-friendly (which I like a lot in production). I think I'm gonna give it a spin.
Did you subconsciously play the melody from Out of Space by The Prodigy during the intro to this video or was it intentional LOL? Cheers!
I had one of these many years back and I don't know what I did with it. I would of kept it if I'd of still had it now. My first and only Moog I've had and was my first proper synth, can't really count the PSS780 I had around the same time although the PSS780 was a good keyboard.
Sounds "Housy" around 14:50. I guess if you do a chord using the filter as an oscillator you could do some House organ sounds with those non-diatonic chord progressions normally associated to transposing chords on sampler pads
When Liam Howlett came to name the band who would crossover every genre and change everything, he definitely made the right choice. 'W30' would have been a terrible name for a band.
😂😂
Wd40 would ve been a better name 🔥
Can hear the Alex Ball (singing) influences.
if you set osc 2 to square and turn sync on , then put osc 1 higher than 2 or the reverse i can't remember and use pitch bend in negative value (down) then you can do PWM
yeah there's a bit of a workaround - similar to the JX3P. I couldn't remember exactly what it was when making this, but sync was the secret. Cheers. Wish I'd covered that now!!
But... the song is good. And your voice fits well. Remember why Jimi Hendrix was singing?
Ahhh! I thought that Moog had rereleased this synth when I saw the new video posted! Haha. Is the Realistic "moog" basically the same synth?
No it was different, I think that was more like the Rogue - but could be completely wrong!
@@StarskyCarr Not wrong at all. A few things added, a few things taken away, but fundamentally the same synth. The Rogue was my first ever synth. What a Christmas that was!
good question - think I’ll crack open a dark beer and fire up the cherry audio version to make sure!
This was my first and only* Moog synth. I think I paid $200-250 for it back in the 80s. I wish I kept it. :-(
* - I had a Realistic Concertmate MG-1 too for a while, which sorta counts, but wasn’t Moog-branded.
"IT IS One Huge Sweet Spot" would have been a more helpful title for English as 2nd language folks. (Even I first thought your title meant it IT HAS one huge sweet spot.) Our doomed language aside, excellent introduction to a somewhat odd Moog I always coveted (not designed by Bob Moog personally), that was used superbly by influential German female band Malaria.
Never thought of that… if it was possessive it would be spelt its not it’s but that’s defo probably too subtle for non-native speakers (although maybe not considering how well that can speak it 😂).
I deleted a whole section about the history of Moog and the Norlin Corp etc as it lost the flow. But the gist was that luckily for us they never dropped the ball like they did with Gibson.
fuckin lovelyyyyy
I like that one. Even considered putting it on "the list", but then I saw the prices. Not outrageous, but out of reach.
Who did you find to do the calibration Starsky?
I’m not sure whether I can give out details . I’ll ask, on my way today.
midi would be nice, was there ever a midi mod?
I had a chance to buy this one for $500 recently, but no MIDI is a killer and finding a competent techie who is willing to an upgrade is tricky.
You can also use an Arturia Keystep controller
@@t55a2 I have beatstep pro that can translate MIDI to CV from any other MIDI-enabled synth. And I was doing just that but it has some downsides that are too critical for me.
With CV you can't go lower than C0 because that's minimum V/Oct standard. You can't also have portamento because you can't just have one key held with one finger while pressing another - it's a uniform voltage that goes straight to oscillator frequency, which is quite limiting for me.
MIDI by design is always polyphonic and even basic monosynths with MIDI do process simultaneous key presses.
I can always play a synth by hand but old synths don't usually have good or reliable keybeds (or are just worn out) and they often require maintenance.
@@wrmusic8736 Might as well buy the Prodigy though, decent investment
How many copyright notices did the filter sweep get you this week?
Ah ha… I played an interval so didn’t get hit. I’ve learned not to play one with a simple C!
You can also sync with pitch bend wheel, the sync switch changes the routing of the pitch bend wheel to one osc
Hah I know… and I did know and for some reason I completely forgot.. so many comments on it now 🤦♂️😂 I was even playing with it last week when I was deciding what to demo. No idea how I forgot!
@@StarskyCarr I had mine back when it came out, you do get carried away, when playing it, it was the sort of synth, that you could think of a sound and patch it, just by thinking and imagining the sound.
The Progue DIY module is excellent
It's nice simple synth, what's its current price?
Currently £2k But Reverb has had them from 800-1500.
@@MusicZeroOne Might be better to buy the Moog Sub fat.
@@HOLLASOUNDS Less issues and hassle for sure.