Audio and Video Illusion called the McGurk Effect
December 19, 2012 – 2:05 pm | No Comment

It is true, music is best heard when your eyes are closed or if you can get really really close to the stage performer.
Everyone knows this because visual cues can at time be distracting. …

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Synthesizer T-shirt that you can play
January 2, 2011 – 7:14 pm | 5 Comments
Synthesizer T-shirt that you can play

ThinkGeek has released a T-shirt with something resembling a Moog on it – that you can actually play. The ‘synth’ on the shirt features 5 different sampled sounds plus 8-voice polyphony (!). It …

Moog Voyager XL
September 8, 2010 – 3:58 pm | 2 Comments
Moog Voyager XL

The rumor mill has been abuzz with news of a new monster monosynth – the Moog MiniMoog Voyager XL. The Voyager XL promises to be a semi-modular monosynth (think Korg MS-20 on steroids), and …

Didn’t buy your vintage analogue synths in 1989? Sucker.
August 11, 2010 – 9:50 pm | 6 Comments
Didn’t buy your vintage analogue synths in 1989?  Sucker.

Peter Forrest’s book ‘The a-z of Analog Synths’ contains graphs over time of the average selling price for pretty much every analogue synthesizer ever made.
The graphs are all extremely interesting, but what sticks out like …

Joe Paradisio’s huge modular
July 10, 2010 – 7:37 pm | One Comment
Joe Paradisio’s huge modular

Joseph Paradiso is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Laboratory, where he directs the Responsive Environments Group, which explores “how sensor networks augment and mediate human experience, interaction and …

Moog Beer!
May 12, 2010 – 2:17 pm | No Comment
Moog Beer!

What if you could put all that wonderful, organic moog-y goodness into bottles and sell it?
Well, the Asheville Brewing Company and the Bob Moog Foundation have teamed up to do just that – …

AHNE Synthporn
April 26, 2010 – 9:42 pm | No Comment
AHNE Synthporn

Analogue Heaven North East (AHNE) 2010 is the annual gathering of analog synth fans from around the Boston area. The idea is that it gives people the ability to see, touch and hear many …

Moog Sonic Six vintage brochure
April 22, 2010 – 7:55 am | No Comment
Moog Sonic Six vintage brochure

The Moog Sonic Six was made by Bob Moog from 1974 to 1979. Moog had acquired Musonics, who made the Sonic V synthesizer, and Moog continued the series with the Sonic Six.
The Sonic …

Moog Auto De-tune
April 1, 2010 – 11:04 am | One Comment
Moog Auto De-tune

I’m not sure about you, but I go crazy every time I hear a new track that uses Auto Tune in an obvious way. It got old the second Cher released her track many …

Moog: When you’re having more than one
March 15, 2010 – 5:00 pm | One Comment
Moog: When you’re having more than one

Edd Kalehoff is a noted keyboard player, having been featured in the Moog documentary, and he was also the keyboardist for several albums by a band called The Roches. He was also the …

Why ADSR?
March 12, 2010 – 5:52 pm | 2 Comments
Why ADSR?

One of the things that characterizes almost every synthesizer is it’s use of envelopes to control things like volume, filters and all sorts of other parameters. It doesn’t matter if it’s digital, analogue, additive, …