Comments on: Craig Anderton’s Tribute to Moog: Rapture Presets, and a Call to Save History

By: Joe Symm

Joe Symm — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:54:33 +0000

I first heard and witnessed Moog equipment on some older skinny puppy / download tracks. - The distinct sound of the filters and kaleidoscope of possibilities are titillating..

I have to imagine the sound and response of full on / semi modulars systems through software emulations. Because i own little real equipment… Thankfully … technology has become so close.

If i had a moog or buchla board… Id end up processing it through modern software anyway.

Rapture looks like it was injected with some soul & has a plethora of modern processing abilities to it.. The fact he added tutorial movies in the package is going to be helpful to synth enthusiast

Craig Anderton is the man !

By: Michael Una

Michael Una — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:53:13 +0000

Damn, that mic flag looks sweeeet!

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Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:05:54 +0000

[...] one model. Others have reimagined some of the Moog sound designs on more modern instruments, as Craig Anderton did recently with Cakewalk’s [...]

By: bumhed

bumhed — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:55:47 +0000

is that britney spears?
He starts talking about falling in love and blushes

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:34:06 +0000

Future interviews — absolutely.

And my guess is we’ll be doing them in environments other than the NAMM floor in general. But I managed to botch some of our sound, so what we had to go with for this was our backup audio. Next time, we’ll be doing this in a studio with a proper setup for actual music and no trade show din in the background. And proper sound. ;)

By: Phos...

Phos... — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:41:06 +0000

It was so nice seeing the interview with Craig Anderton. Since my first copies of Electronics Projects for Musicians and Guitar Electronics for Musicians, I’ve been a fan of his.

Please, can I make a suggestion for future interviews of this type?

See if you can find a microphone with a more focused directional pattern for interviews in noisy environments.

By: Jonathan Flugel

Jonathan Flugel — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:12:56 +0000

Perfect timing. I’ve been saving my pennies for a Moog.

I like this guy, he has an obvious love for this field.

Dig.

By: amoeba

amoeba — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:32:22 +0000

no such thing as humidity here in colorado. they can, um, put all that stuff in my basement studio if they need too. i promise i will take good care of it.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:08:42 +0000

I think the Moog sound has been so influential as to become something we take for granted; that’s part of what Craig was saying (and it means it’s not even a discrete thing you can point to any more, we’re so used to it).

But that’s a really good question, what else might have that kind of influence. Moog has the advantage of being first, of course. I think we’re also deeply influenced in terms of how we assemble music by sequencers and DAWs, though there’s not a clear pioneer there that I know of.

Maybe the answer to your question is more personal, as far as recent instruments. But all of this I think makes an event stronger arugment for the important of the preservation mission at the Moog Foundation, not only for Bob Moog but all the people he worked with.

By: Cort3x

Cort3x — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:50:56 +0000

I’m not even sure that I can call up a memory of how the “moog sound” is. I might be able to recognise it, but it’s simply not very familiar to me.

It interests me that something that makes all kinds of sounds through manipulation of variables has had an impact on so many people’s personal aural histories. Instruments like these seem to me a thing of the past (909, 303, Moog synths etc)- I can’t think of anything we have today that has had the same effect on people. But who knows, maybe the Nord synths will gain similar fame sometime in the future?