Thursday, March 7, 2019

Moog's Incredible Flagship... The Moog ONE!

For the past few years, I've had the incredible pleasure of working with Moog Music to develop sounds for their incredible new flagship, the ONE.

It's truly an analog dream machine, with an extensive set of features and abilities, and it's massive flexibility allows you to approach it as a polyphonic synth, a mono synth, and even a highly capable modular system.

Here it is in my home studio during a break from a marathon programming session...

More recently, I've been taking a little time to actually create some music with it. Although there's a number of things in progress, here's the first one to make it across the finish line...

This was an improv that revolved around using the ONE as a modular system. Everything was recorded directly to my iPad, my preferred way of working these days. I used the oscillators waveshaping and voltage controlled mixing capabilities to create timbral changes as the sequence progressed, and used the built-in effects to create ambiance (no external effects were used). I also used a pair of expression pedals to control things like panning and filtering during the recording process.

There's more to come...