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Best (Unofficial) Product Slogan Ever: Minimoog Old School

If you haven’t been reading the ongoing controversy over the Minimoog Voyager Old School, here’s the best part of the comments yet. Original internal slogan for the project:

“Got Balls?”

I couldn’t let anyone miss that. (Hey, I think it could have worked as an ad campaign.) I’m not going to touch the debate any more; if you don’t like the Voyager OS, you’ll use something else. But I will say, useful as presets and MIDI are, it is possible to make music without them.

Hmm, I can come up with a few alternate slogans for other products we saw:

The not-yet-functional LinnDrum II prototype: “Silence is golden.”

Camoflage X-50 Korg: “Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit …”

Roland’s C-30 digital harpsichord? Um, well, “Are you old school?” really covers that one.

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5 Comments

dead_red_eyes

“Got Balls?” could’ve been sweet!

“Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit …” would’ve been absolutely perfect for the Camoflage X-50! Haha!

January 23, 2008 @ 11:18 pm

lost

for the harpsichord “Taken’ yah to church!”

January 23, 2008 @ 11:38 pm

velocipede

Some people never mastered presets and midi… Funnily enough, the very friendly guy at the booth that I talked with said the Minimoog OS would be better for the studio where changing patches isn’t an urgent matter like it is on stage. I have to say that I agree. I can imagine taking digital photos of patches for future reference, though, and I guess that is not very old school…

January 24, 2008 @ 12:38 am

Barry Wood

Plenty of people used the original Mini Moog on stage without presets. Sure Rick Wakeman just kept buying new ones as a way of storing patches but there is something to be said for not being able to rely on stored sounds. Having to dial up a sound when you need it will force you to know the instrument inside out.

BTW, the “got balls” catch phrase is spot on. I played with one at NAMM for a bit and it certainly had some serious cojones. More so than the Little Fatty.

January 24, 2008 @ 1:48 am

velocipede

Indeed, remembering patches is certainly a possible skill.

I do recall a key point from the staff about one of the differences between the OS and the standard Voyager. On the OS, all the knobs are also analog. Thus, a connoisseur might be able to hear the difference when sweeping the filter, for example.

I have to say, every time I get to play with a Moog or one of Dave Smith’s synths, I really start to want a real analog unit.