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Thursday, 11 September 2003
Everything old is new again.

Behold, a digital reproduction of the Moog Modular V synthesizer, designed to faithfully emulate the original instrument (including the instability of the analog capacitors and oscillators). The interface is absolutely nifty; to connect the various modules, you drag virtual patch cords between the inputs and outputs.

Even better: there are demo versions available for both Windows and Mac (OS 9 and X). You can't save presets, and there's a regular white noise which prevents you from recording (unless, say, you recorded a couple of different times and crossfaded between them to avoid the noise), but you can play around with it to your heart's content...

I don't know that I'd pay $329 for it, but it's still pretty neat.

Posted by godfrey (link)
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Ah, Moog, the company that put Rochester, NY on the map. That, and Chuck Mangione.
Posted by Lunchbox on 11 Sep 2003 11:50
Chuck Mangione is a Yankee? Impossible; Hank Hill would never respect the man if that were true.

Posted by Godfrey on 11 Sep 2003 12:15
I've been to Rochester and Schenectady!
Posted by Ginevra on 11 Sep 2003 12:28
Oh yeah baby, Chuckie baby was a Western New Yorker! He played often with the Rochester Philharmonic, and took him family camping in the gorges up there (there's much great terrain in WNY people don't know about.)
Posted by Lunchbox on 12 Sep 2003 07:06
Schenectady is a funny word. I wonder if it's on the same parallel as Walla Walla, WA.
Posted by Lunchbox on 12 Sep 2003 07:07
Yeah, they're both in the "weird but not dirty" category, along with Hackensack, NJ; Yazoo City, MS or Loogootee, IA.

It's definitely not in the same league as Beaver Lick, KY; Knob Lick, MO or Poop Creek, OR. Or even Booger Holler, AK. (Newfoundland's got nothing on the US when it comes to odd place names!)

Posted by Godfrey on 12 Sep 2003 07:28
Moog makes me think of the Monkees, which makes me smile, but then I remember the Monkees Rape Slash fanfic site I stumbled across and then I frown and call a therapist.

Just picture a surly Mike Nesmith spanking a weeping Davy Jones.


Posted by Sarra on 12 Sep 2003 16:44
Ye gods. Is there nothing that is safe from being turned into slash?

Posted by Godfrey on 13 Sep 2003 08:13