hmm ... I'm having to rethink the inserts. 1/2 and 3/4 are stereo normaled if you have something in 2 or 4 ... not sure I like that or not.

Edit: not sure if anyone messing about has had a chance to mess with the inserts. Can you look if you can isolate 2 and 4 even if you have a plug in each?

You only get fans when you get the very toppermost tier of analogue synths. All these cheap synths WISH they had a fan! It adds a truly acoustic quality to the playing experience.

somewhat ot.
but do you use an elasticised back support?
ive found them invaluable with the tension of muscles and my awareness to move and lift things with much greater care..

ive just spent 3 weeks pretty much incapacitated, in significant pain, and have had long running issues with my back.

Thanks for the offer!

Yeah, I remember when I could lift stuff. I used to kick ass, now I’m mostly sitting on mine.

Yes, help has arrived... and is eating dinner.

Who cares about food when a new Moog One is calling out... “ffs unbox me already, wtf, you got me on pre-order with free 2-day shipping, now you just wanna stare at me inside my shipping box!”



Re fan noise... I really don’t like fan noise either. I replaced the new MacBook Pro with a 2013 Mac Pro trashcan mostly over the MacBook’s very loud, ever present fans. The MP trashcan is the quitest computer I’ve ever had. Sits right next to me quite as a mouse. I like a quite control room.

Alright...I've been having to figure out how to do a bunch of video stuff I've never done before. The first preset video is up now. I'll do a couple more at least before the weekend is done. I've got to go rock out on the guitar with some friends on Saturday morning, but I'll try to have one done Saturday afternoon. Maybe one more tonight.

Moog One presets from 1892 Horror Film to Clavinott. The Moog One was recorded from its outputs straight into a Focusrite Clarett 2Pre into my Macbook running Logic Pro X and combined with the video in iMovie. There are no room mics going or talking.

No effects (compression, EQ, reverb, etc) were used outside of the Moog One. I made no attempt to balance volumes, so you hear them as they are. I just noodled, playing a little bit of each preset, then using the Mod Wheel and X/Y Pad to see what they did. Don't be expect to be wowed by my noodling. I hope you enjoy!

Please 'Like' and 'Subscribe' to help to know if I should make more. Thanks for watching.

To be fair though, a lot of those vintage synths got REALLY hot. A band-mate of mine back in the 90's had an OBxa which I remember you could almost fry an Egg on.

My Jupiter 8 got quite warm without a fan and didn't the Prophet 10 have heat problems?

Cool electronics last longer I believe. I hope the fan noise can be addressed though I suspect there is no magic fix other than running them slower.

Why do you have to be a d!ck?

More demos please!!

Have unboxed, and set up, messed about for about an hour, and no recordings for now.
The major points:
1. It sounds amazing and is so malleable that when it does not, you can make it so.
2. Annoying when you switch presents with delay/verb still hanging on. This needs a bug fix, but for the time being, don't do that.
3. Fan noise after the initial boot up is not bad for me. Quieter than a computer, a Deepmind, or background noise of a guitar amp turned up loud.
4. Gain staging is supremely important, in a good way.
5. Took one of my go to OB6 patches, just because it happened to be sitting within arms length, and tried, with limited success, to match it. Suddenly got much closer when I played with the envelope attach curve. This is potent. Ultimately found a Moog preset with OB in the name that was in the same ballpark, tweaked that, and got a little closer. Still, that particular OB6 patch makes my big toe shoot up in my boot, to quote Little Richard.
6. The oscillators definitely do not, without assistance, jump out of the speakers crackling with life like those of a Model D or some vintage VCO's. They are however, to put it in a good light, classy and rich. Also versatile, and with the waveform shaping and mixing, capable of a huge variety of tones. They are more lively with no modulation tricks than say, the digital oscillators of a Pro-2, or the DCO's of a Juno ( or DM12 as a contemporary example). One of my next moves will be to use a boost pedal with a little bit of "hair" on it on an insert with the filter wide open, and bring it into the external input of another "synth" to drive the filter a bit more, and to see how Minimoogy it can get. I will also similarly experiment with using my Voyager oscillators with the slew rate mod triggered via midi into an external input mostly for my own edification as an A/B. Will do same with the OB6 or Prophet 6.

In a short time, what I know it can do is to be an absolutely brilliant and deep polysynth. In my mind it is the love child of a Pro-2 and a Voyager, but with both of their best features, and better looking and more successful than its parents. I did most of my little bit of tweaking sans effects, but I'd pop them on to mess with them, and they are wonderful. It can cover a lot of ground. A string sound with the ensemble effect sounds pretty great. A fat but clean bass - pretty great. Pillowy OB type sound - great. Still working on a screaming lead where one note will raise the hairs on your arms. Think I can get there. But where this will really shine is not covering for other instruments but exploring what is uniquely the Moog One, and that is by far the most exciting thing.

Thanks for that, just taking a listen now. Two thumbs-down out of four already! There are some sad people in the world.

getting the sensors calibrated to fan speed can be a touchy business.

Behringer should put up the price of the deepmind. It's now got high end components in it. Overnight it became a luxury item.

So it sounds like a memorymoog then? I absolutely would have expected a fan. The memorymoog is the loudest synth fan out there. No one ever mentions it because it is plugged into something outputting crazy sounds

Why complain if your fans can go in the audio range? Most fans can only modulate the sound, these can be oscillators! #FANGATE

For me that would be a very positive thing.

can you get completely silent fans . how the os is that ok .

I thought someone would mention that. The so called fan in the DeepMind is actually a Virtual Fan. A very clever optical illusion implemented with an array of LEDs. Fan noise synthesis is performed with an unused main synth voice. It's a development of the pioneering work that first appeared in LED powered tube gear.

moog one launch disaster > hubble space telescope launch disaster

by a long shot

To be clear, it is not just that the reverb/delay hangs on, it is more that it sounds like the effects are jumping to their new state in an unpredictable and sometimes unpleasant way.

The bigger the fan, the slower it has to rotate to move the same amount of air.
Low RPM = nearly silent.

Yup, just what the doctor ordered. Keep 'em comin'. (And thanks - I'm sure this takes a fair amount of time and effort).

I think the presets sound pretty great actually

Sure. There are definitely productive ways to discuss them as an owner or prospective owner. Even as someone expressing an even-handed opinion about the merits and detriment of gear with fans in a studio or live context.

No, but once someone’s posts start to consist solely of jokes about the fan (despite simultaneously promoting a competing product that also has a loud fan), quotes like “hahaha” or references to the “90dB fan” despite nobody having measured the noise level, it’s hard to characterize this as productive, well-intentioned conversation. It’s trolling. Pure and simple.

HOLY ANALOG BATMAN!!!! The One is going to make my Modal 008 look like one of those Roland Boutique synths. My Spider Pro will definitely accommodate it, but I'll have to move it back 6 inches.

It's all in glorious mono!

LOL it might just be the same two guys from this thread...

I've used just about everything including various belts, girdles, tens-units, etc. Unfortunately for me though, when my back is feeling decent on occasion, then my sternum injury acts up, or my neck, joints. My doctor believes it is Gulf War Syndrome which includes of myriad of fun issues.

exactly... there is something buggy going on with that...

Great review. I heard some incredible leads on the demos so you will have no problem finding those.