The Moog Matriarch Joins the Family at Moogfest 2019
We solder and assemble a Moog, talk with "Money Mark" Nishita, and get a closer look at the new Moog Matriarch at Moogfest 2019.
Moogfest, an eclectic music, art, and technology festival, descends upon Durham, North Carolina each year to envelope the city with four days of concerts, panels, talks, and workshops orbiting the who, what, when, and how of Moog synthesizers history. The festival also provides an ideal annual occasion for the Asheville-based company to announce their latest products, and this year proved no exception, with the unveiling of an instrument bearing a name that clearly states its place within the Moog lineage.
The Moog Matriarch is a 4-oscillator paraphonic analog synth featuring modular connectivity and analog circuitry based upon classic Moog synthesizer modules designed by the company’s namesake himself. Checking over the spec sheet, the Matriarch could be considered the greatest hits of Moog know-how come to form ? an artful amalgamation of the synth company’s history expressed with mixers, filters, VCAs, oscillators, and other componentry that have given the 66 year old company a rarefied reputation amongst musicians. With 49-keys spanning most of the instrument’s 32-inch width, the four-voice paraphonic synth is equipped to provide an array of options via its built-in sequencer, arpeggiator, 90 modular patch points, stereo analog delay and stereo ladder filters. Its sum is what Moog calls the ?pinnacl...
Moogfest, an eclectic music, art, and technology festival, descends upon Durham, North Carolina each year to envelope the city with four days of concerts, panels, talks, and workshops orbiting the who, what, when, and how of Moog synthesizers history. The festival also provides an ideal annual occasion for the Asheville-based company to announce their latest products, and this year proved no exception, with the unveiling of an instrument bearing a name that clearly states its place within the Moog lineage.
The Moog Matriarch is a 4-oscillator paraphonic analog synth featuring modular connectivity and analog circuitry based upon classic Moog synthesizer modules designed by the company’s namesake himself. Checking over the spec sheet, the Matriarch could be considered the greatest hits of Moog know-how come to form ? an artful amalgamation of the synth company’s history expressed with mixers, filters, VCAs, oscillators, and other componentry that have given the 66 year old company a rarefied reputation amongst musicians. With 49-keys spanning most of the instrument’s 32-inch width, the four-voice paraphonic synth is equipped to provide an array of options via its built-in sequencer, arpeggiator, 90 modular patch points, stereo analog delay and stereo ladder filters. Its sum is what Moog calls the ?pinnacl...
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