New Moog Gear
It’s another NAMM, and everyone is finally getting a peak at the results of many months (and years) of hard work by some very smart people. Some products are ready to ship, some is right around the corner, and some of it is a long way in the future, but NAMM attendees have seen enough to know that most of it is worth the wait. In the middle category (right around the corner) fall two products from Moog Music: the MP-201 Multi-Pedal and the Minimoog Voyager OS—the “OS” stands for Old School.
The MP-201 is much hipper than any other foot-operated device I’ve seen, siimply because you can do so much with it. Essentially, it’s a programmable controller with four MIDI outputs and four control-voltage (CV) outputs that allows you to control four MIDI or CV devices using a single optical pedal. You can specify the range and polarity of the pedal and program it to address any parameter in real time to control your Moogerfooger, soft synth, digital or analog effects device—just about anything with a MIDI or CV input. This description barely touches on what you can do with this thing, so we’ll get a video clip of it online real soon. Suffice it to say, it’s much cooler than it might sound.
And if you’re wondering whether to take your aging Minimoog to the shop or replace it with something new and more dependable, you have a new reason to put it out the pasture. The Minimoog Voyager OS (remember, that’s Old School, not operating system) is a real analog synth with no digital functionality–no program memory, no fancy arpeggiator, just the same classic sound and hands-on controllability you got with the Model D. It does everything the vintage Minimoog did in an all-new package. You also get the audio and CV connectivity found on the original Voyager, thanks to a bank of 1/4-inch jacks. At $2,595 retail, the OS is priced between the Voyager and the Litle Phatty and will be shipping soon.
