Moog Source

Yet again, Moog was leagues ahead. With this monophonic Moog Source, synthesizers entered the age of digital editing in 1981.

Judging by usability or appearance, this Source isn’t your typical Moog. Trusting your own ears, on the other hand, everything comes up roses. Aside from the typical Moog sound, with its oscillator sync, an arpeggiator, and two real-time sequencers and 16 memory slots, this source offers something that even the Minimoog can’t cross off its to-do list.

Regarding the Minimoog, in a short interview with Gert Prix, Bob Moog shared some rather disparaging comments about this Moog Source as the successor to the Mini. Of course, this could be because the master was no longer involved at all in the project. Or it could also be because two wonderful synthesizers are competing with each other that are each totally unique in their specialist area. The Source is also a source of pure happiness!

If anyone reads that as a personal endorsement for the Moog Source, which was only manufactured in limited numbers, they’d be absolutely right.

First love never dies!

The membrane buttons of the Moog Source are its major mechanical weakness. It’s the right decision in principle if all the buttons still reacted properly even after thousands of concerts, including in this eboard.

Well, it doesn’t hurt for a pianist to cut their fingernails every now and again … :-)