a couple of shots from inahiddenplace's Musimesse 2009 flickr set. (click for more)moogerfooger wall
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Musikmesse: Moog Booth
a couple of shots from inahiddenplace's Musimesse 2009 flickr set. (click for more)moogerfooger wall
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what exactly has kept moog from producing a new modular system. do they see it as too antiquated? anyone in the know?
ReplyDeletethe fact that they won't make money out of it. modular synths aren't cool. guitars are.
ReplyDeleteSomeone else owns the copyrights to Moog modular.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.moogce.com/
"Someone else owns the copyrights to Moog modular."
ReplyDeleteit doesn't have to be a clone. as rose by any other name...
"modular synths aren't cool. guitars are."
fashion changes, the fact that kids are buying those moog pedals is testament enough to that.
"the fact that they won't make money out of it."
they sell enough sill stuff, you don't think, being a regular reader of this site, that, i dunno, a moog eurorack series would sell umpteen hundred modules.
i don't think it's cost prohibitive, and i don't think it's style, or lack of ownership. it's lack of forward movement. then again the did make the mini old school.
No, what was moogce does not own the copyrights. I believe he was asked to change the company name to Modusonics and did so.
ReplyDeleteThe back story is that Mike Bucki used to be with Moog Custom Engineering. When the old Moog Music closed in the 80s he bought out a lot of parts and service notes and over the years has made small numbers of more or less exact copies. Bob Moog who didn't own the company didn't have a problem as far as anyone has mentioned. When Bob Moog legally got the use of the name back I think it was agreed he could still make the modules but not call himself Moog Custom Engineering.
One can clearly make a little money, or else all these modular builders would not be making anything. Issues are that making exact copies becomes expensive enough that few will sell. Also modulars have rarely found a home in retail music stores (and guitar pedals do, a fact that Bob Moog definitely understood). Moog Music makes most of it's money from retail. Though it would be cool and not that difficult for them to make a couple pieces that they haven't yet to make the Moogerfoogers into a proper synth.
Then I've always seen it quite possible for them to produce the existing moogerfoogers in a more compact module format.