New audio effects from MOOG
Moog Music today announced the new MF-401 Auto De-tune, a new rackmount audio effect that promises to add natural imperfections to even the most heavily AutoTuned vocals:
Introducing Moog Music’s MF-401 Auto De-tune, featuring Authentic Vocal Imperfection technology, even a T-Pain vocal can be restored to its complete original character, scrubbing the pitch correction and leaving the untreated vocal in all its wavering sharp or flat glory. Results may vary, and Moog Music in no way bears responsibility for discomfort or irritation caused by the use of the MF-401.
Presets include:
- •Drunk as a Sailor
- •Seattle sensitive alternative warble
- •Where did all the green room beer go?
- •Original Star Trek cast member attempts to make pop music
- •My vocal monitor is blown, so Soundman, please mix me REALLY low
- •Mrs. Miller
- •Too punk rock to turn down your !#$%&*!! stage volume
- •Cat in an alley under a full moon
- •Tone Def
- •Florence Foster Jenkins
According to Moog, each preset can be adjusted to taste or lack thereof with the Warble rate, Deviation range, Emotive Overload, and Caterwaul rotary controls, allowing a virtually infinite variety and depth of vocal expression and variation.
New MOOG emulation
Xhun Audio has introduced LittleOne – a virtual emulation of the Moog Little Phatty analog synthesizer.
Description:
LittleOne emulates every component of the Little Phatty (oscillators, filter, envelopes, LFO …), preserving the original frequency responses and frequency ranges.
The result is an analog-sounding instrument – all in the digital domain. In addition to the Little Phatty synthesizer emulation, LittleOne encloses a full rack with a 16-step MIDI sequencer, a 16-step trancegate effect and two master effects slots.
Specs
- The Moog Little Phatty Physical Modeling emulation
- Two aliasing-free analog modeled oscillators with continuous selection mode ( like the original ) between Triangle, Saw, Square, Pulse
- A 4-Pole Low Pass filter modeled on the classic Moog Ladder, featuring the original frequency responses and overload control
- Two 4-Stage ( ADSR ) envelope generators
- Modulation LFO with the original waveforms and frequency ranges ( 0.2~500 Hz )
- Monophonic/polyphonic mode, pitch bend ranges and more – all accessible from LittleOne LED display
- 128 ready-to-use presets from classic analog to contemporary cutting-edge dance to psychoacoustic sounds and SFX
- XSQ16M, a build-in 16-step MIDI sequencer
- GATED!, a build-in 16-step trancegate effect
- Two master effects slots with the possibility to choose between delay, reverb, tube distortion, flanger, chorus
- Full MIDI CC#s mapping (according to the original Little Phatty CC#s specs)
Moog Taurus bass synth
Moog shows off their new Taurus bass sythesizer at NAMM 2010.
New VST iMoog for free
Sound Blocker has introduced iMoog, a free software synthesizer for Kontakt 4 based on sounds of the Moog Minimoog Voyager.
Mike at Sound Blocker notes:
I sampled some Moog Voyager sounds and made a free Kontakt instrument. All samples are made with analog outboard gear like API A2D, 5500, 2500, SMC 2b or Hammer EQ.
For now you can download two demo packs: “Big Boy” and “I saw U”.
More sound packs will come soon – Hope you like it. Have fun …
Cheers Ola
Teaser for NAMM 2010 – Moog
2010 NAMM Show: This is a Berlin School teaser from Moon Modular for their booth at the upcoming Winter NAMM Show.
And happy new year btw
A good look at the Moog
Bill Holland was minding his business in the Gearwire studio when the ancient alien creature known as the Caretaker transported him to the Delta Quadrant, where his only hope of getting home was to shoot this series of video demos on the Moog Music Minimoog Voyager.
Part 1
Bill Holland wakes up on the wrong side of the Voyager in this amazing display of ghost piano. Where’s the sound coming from if nobody’s pressing the keys? The secret lies within this video. Don’t look at the Moog Minimoog Voyager, look through it!
Part 2
Ever onward with our look at the Moog Music Minimoog Voyager. The next stop on this luxury-synth cruise will take us to the banks of assignable control options, including everyone’s annular favorite, the mod wheel.
Part 3
Little Phatty VST editor
Moog Music and reKon audio have announced the release of the VST Little Phatty Editor,
Created by reKon audio, the VST Little Phatty Editor is a VSTi format software application that provides full control and editing of Little Phatty presets and performance controls via MIDI from within your VST compatible host application. This allows total management of custom sounds directly within the user’s sequencing and music production environment. The following actions are supported :
• Full editing of all Little Phatty preset parameters via MIDI CC messages
• Automation of all LP parameters in real time through the VST host application
• Save/Load presets to and from the Little Phatty
• Presets can be saved in VST Editor format
VST Little Phatty Editor is available for Windows and Mac OS X in the VST instrument plug-in format. It is available directly from Moog Music for $69.
Robert Moog and Max Brand
Synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog began designing electronic circuits for Austrian composer Max Brand in 1957 – the instrument was completed roughly a decade later.
The sounds it produces were featured in a concert at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz on September 6, 2009. The composition is by Elisabeth Schimana, performed by Manon Liu Winter and Gregor Ladenhauf.
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/6507219]
About the Max Brand synthesizer:
Wood, metal, keyboard, bandmanual, pedals, patch board, mixer, voltage controlled oscillator, low frequency oscillator, ring modulator, lopass filter, envelope generator, frequency divider, formant filter, tubes, transistors
I am the Machine – A Personal Approach
Deep within the hallucinatory ramblings of an electro-acoustic sound, it is this voice, hollering, steeped in pathos and desperately overamplified, that sets your teeth on edge. The launch has already been prepared against a background of crackling tension, the rocket has been fired with a whizz and a bang, and has finally slipped into space to the sound of an atmospheric juddering: these sounds in the first minute of Max Brand’s tape composition The Astronauts (1962) are also accompanied by voices, but on the right side of the pathetic. Brand had used NASA recordings of the radio conversations between ground control and John Glenn during the latter’s first flight into space as the basis for his electroacoustic ode, a pathetic oratorio in honor of the god of technology. This excerpt is from the book “Zauberhafte Klangmaschinen | Von der Sprechmaschine bis zur Soundcard”, Schott 2008
Serge on Moog
Since I am currently on vacation my posts will be shorter and more ad hoc, but be sure I will keep you posted on the coolest electro stuff on the web – just the same, have a great summer
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Serge TKB talks to the Moogerfooger CP-251 and to the EML-200. Squawky as hell. Enjoy!
Can't afford a real Moog?
Well here’s the second best 
Mini-paper-Moog
DATAMASKIN
