We will miss you Bob!
Musicmaster
Bob Moog has died
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- KVRist
- 310 posts since 19 Aug, 2001 from Sweden
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- KVRist
- 102 posts since 10 Jul, 2003 from Palos Verdes, CA (near Los Angeles)
You'll be with us in the soundwaves, Mr. Moog. The soundwaves that encompass us all and the very ones you helped change this world forever with; they are how you will be with us as well as how you are remembered. Thank you, and we'll all keep listening.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."--Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc, 1989
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- KVRist
- 453 posts since 20 Aug, 2004 from Falls Church, VA
I was trying to put Bob's contribution into words for my non-musician friends.
Before I heard about Bob, I was messing around with the new version of Finale, which has integrated GPO-Kontakt playback of the score. Before the Moog synthesizer, sampling--just like analog--was an esoteric technique, used only by the experimentalists. It was all in the Lab.
In bringing his synthesizer out of the Lab and into the marketplace, Bob Moog opened the floodgates for all these other techniques that we now take for granted.
Is it going too far to say that just about everything we do as computer musicians--even with the samplers that have nothing to do with analog synthesis--are part of our everyday workflow because of Bob's huge success with the Moog?
And then, of course, there's just the room-shaking power of the Moog itself. Man, that still just gives me goosebumps... even if it's coming from an Arturia Moog Modular V2 that resides inside my computer!
Before I heard about Bob, I was messing around with the new version of Finale, which has integrated GPO-Kontakt playback of the score. Before the Moog synthesizer, sampling--just like analog--was an esoteric technique, used only by the experimentalists. It was all in the Lab.
In bringing his synthesizer out of the Lab and into the marketplace, Bob Moog opened the floodgates for all these other techniques that we now take for granted.
Is it going too far to say that just about everything we do as computer musicians--even with the samplers that have nothing to do with analog synthesis--are part of our everyday workflow because of Bob's huge success with the Moog?
And then, of course, there's just the room-shaking power of the Moog itself. Man, that still just gives me goosebumps... even if it's coming from an Arturia Moog Modular V2 that resides inside my computer!
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- KVRAF
- 1942 posts since 29 Aug, 2003 from Austin, TX
Cheers Bob! Thanks for everything. Riley
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- KVRAF
- 2321 posts since 23 Mar, 2004 from Two lower than LS6
I've never played a Moog, but the fact that he created them and got them out there means that entire forms of music were born
Without Mr Moog, KVR wouldnt exist, i wouldnt be able to write songs (which is still open to debate) or enjoy certains bands
A true genuis and pioneer
Without Mr Moog, KVR wouldnt exist, i wouldnt be able to write songs (which is still open to debate) or enjoy certains bands
A true genuis and pioneer
Phil
"The fool who persists in his folly will become wise" - William Blake
*No more band for me* | **My Host**
"The fool who persists in his folly will become wise" - William Blake
*No more band for me* | **My Host**
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- KVRAF
- 6490 posts since 14 Jun, 2004 from Rochester, NY
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- KVRAF
- 2117 posts since 24 Feb, 2004 from Germany
There are always the best which pass away.... 
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- jaaathmaster
- 2690 posts since 1 Jun, 2001 from Marlow, S. Bucks, UK
Rest in peace Bob. A good innings... You changed the musical landscape, and put keyboardists in the spotlight for once 
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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- KVRist
- 118 posts since 20 Aug, 2003 from Durham, NC
I was going to go to the service, but I'm too sad.
I went to Asheville and got to see Bob at the factory when he was alive. I want to remember him that way.
I went to Asheville and got to see Bob at the factory when he was alive. I want to remember him that way.
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- KVRAF
- 1530 posts since 20 Apr, 2005 from southsubchicago
that's pretty cool....hues wrote:I'll be there in Asheville on Wednesday. I'll take some pictures at the memorial service. That way all my friends from KvR can be there, too.
i'm a total dumbass..my first synth was a moog- a Sonic Six...my second was a Prodigy... later i got a MultiMoog...
sadly, i sold them all...you couldn't believe the warmth of the Multi's osc's, or the bass and sync sounds on the Prodigy...or the pure discovery i went through and the filter i judged all others by from the Sonic Six (or the price it's worth today!)
sadly, i sold them all because i was broke (too many times over the years)...it is so, so sad...i wish i had part of the legacy...but it says something of the lasting quality of these intsruments...
however, i do have a Big Briar Theremin, it belonged to my dear, departed wife, who i miss more than i ever knew i would, and i will pass it on to my children....me and the old lady shared a passion for synths, but i can't play that theremin like she could, no way...
it's amazing how much moog's legacy touches in ways you wouldn't think...it shows how real and great his stuff was...i have so many memories....
my son is into "robot music" now, another synth fan for the future...
rg
KVR: come for the music, stay for the polemics and grammar lessons...