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kovacs · Post by **kovacs** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 10:45 pm

It's been hard to find time this month but here's my entry...

Bob's Funky Friday

I must admit to not knowing a whole lot about Mr Moog but I took the opportunity to write a funky synth lead to his tribute!

Components:

NI Pro-53 running through Camelspace

Bass loops (slightly tweaked) from Endangered Rhythms, running through Camelphat and Voxengo Voxformer

Drums from SampleTank 2 XL, running through Camelspace and a touch of Voxengo Elephant

All put together in Ableton Live 5 and dashed with PSP VintageWarmer.

griels · Post by **griels** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:02 pm

A little Boards-of-Canada inspired tribute to the great man:

A Slice Of Moog

The voice at the very beginning demonstrating various synths is in fact Raymond Scott, pioneer of the sequencer and close compadre of Bob Moog, who is heard later in the track...

Featuring Guru, BFD, Tassman 4, Mr Tramp, a heap load of Ohm Force and Digital Fish Phones FX, Larry Seyer Upright Bass and 8 instances of Minimonsta.

Hope you enjoy

mystahr · Post by **mystahr** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 8:27 am

Dear Mr. Robert Moog

Im sorry I never had the pleasure to meet with your crafted tools and play with fondled hands (yet), but the spirit you created will forever live on. I know there'll come a time when I shall wade through the purity of soundcreation that is called Moog. For now please accept my tribute created with an evolution from whence you started; the Juno60, as I feel this is my aptest in thanking you for bringing joy to the synthesized world.

Rest in peace

Dear Mr. R. Moog

emdot_ambient · Post by **emdot_ambient** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 12:00 pm

Wow . . . my first time posting an entry on page 3 (I'm usually a page 4 kinda guy).

CYBERNAUT

When I think of Dr. Robert Moog, of course, I think of synthesizers: big, huge, honking, bleeping, braying, wailing, bubbling walls of MODULAR synthesizes.

And when I think of big, huge, honking, bleeping, braying, wailing, bubbling walls of modular synthesizes . . . I think of T.O.N.T.O. Yeah, you know the one. It's picture has been plastered here often enough. But are you familiar with the music that came out of that alter to the gods of all gear junkies everywhere?

Tonto's Expanding Head Band. Those are the guys I'm talking about. While their music is a rarety today, their uber-monster-modular-synthesizer, The Original New Timbral Orchestra, a.k.a. T.O.N.T.O., is legendary. Malcolm Cecil built the beast largely based on Moog's series III modular synth, expanded with modules from Serge, Oberheim, ARP 2500/2600, Blacett . . . need we go on?

So naturally when it came time to decide what song to do as a tribute to Moog (and big, huge, honking, bleeping, braying, wailing, bubbling walls of modular synthesizes), I had to do a cover of something from Tonto.

Cybernaut was the first song on Tonto's Expanding Head Band's first album, Zero Time, and was an obvious choice. Released in 1971, Zero Time is a complete gem of an album: 100% electronic and all original. Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff's music wandered somewhere between the neo-classical synthesis excursions of Larry Fast (a.k.a. Synergy), Indian inspired ambient, experimental strangeness and the original synth-pop sounds of the Dr. Who theme.

I chose this piece as my tribute to Dr. Robert Moog's passing because it so fully epitomises the wild chances his early synthesizers inspired. And it so well foreshadows the Berlin School Moog-ishness that would arrive on the scene a few years later to inspire a young Emdot to fiddle with making strange noises on synthesizers.

This is a fairly straight-ahead remake of Cybernaut, though I ended up taking it a bit farther: adding new counter melodies and harmonies, throwing in a few more leads and generally putting a new sheen on it . . . not that the wonderfully simple original really needed it. I just couldn't help myself, the melody is so catchy and the bass line such a joy to play over top of. By the end, I think this slid pretty well into the mid-70's sequencer-driven Tangerine Dream territory that really started me composing music.

Dr. Moog . . . we'll miss you!

VSTi's:
Moog Modular V (3 instances)
KarmaFX Synth (2 instances)
MinimogueVA (5 instances)
Benedict's Molder (1 instance)
Triangle I (2 instances)

FX:
KarmaFX Deelay
Kjaerhus GPP1 & Classic EQ
GlaceVerb
Waves RBass

And here's the good doctor himself, in 2000, along with Tonto's Expanding Head Band (Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil from left to right). And then there's some other git on the far right. I think he's fairly inconsequential

nikp2000 · Post by **nikp2000** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 12:44 am

here's my entry

http://nikp2000.com/09_05_nikp2000_a_sa ... e_seas.mp3

nick

rsmus7 · Post by **rsmus7** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 10:07 pm

here is my tribute song for bob:

moogerrobber

tho I didnt use any moog-emulation for this

just X-phraze in eXT
nothing else

have fun

liqih · Post by **liqih** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 10:15 pm

funky mooger

funky music inspired by moog sound

instruments:

my real guitar
DK+ drums
moog samples in EVE ONE : bass and lead
Astrobelt

slartibartfast · Post by **slartibartfast** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 4:08 pm

I too have very fond memories of the Wendy Carlos albums as my first introduction to electronic music, so it was pretty obvious that I should cover an appropriate classical piece in Moog style. What better piece to choose, on an occasion such as this, than...

Albinoni's Adagio

This has to be one of the saddest and most moving classical pieces every written, and has been used in many movies, including Gallipoli, Rollerball, Welcome to Sarajevo and Flashdance.

All sounds were produced from 7 instances of Minimonsta. The only effects used were some reverb and compression.

The basis of the track was a Midi file picked up from the 'net, and edited to bring the track length down from over 8 minutes to within the time limit for this month's theme. Some tweaking was also necessary to get the correct sounds from Minimonsta. I would have liked to do something a bit more original, but I hope you enjoy it nevertheless.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:10 am

aldred · Post by **aldred** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 9:15 am

I'm no believer. But I always secretly hope that after all the pain there's something nice waiting for people like Bob Moog when they pop their clogs.

Gentlemen Don't Die

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Glooper · Post by **Glooper** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 2:52 pm

This originally started out as my contest entry... all the synths in it are moog...

though it kinda got sidetracked into a katrina CD project... with remco providing vocals...

But I thought It'd still stick it here to get a review...

Hope is a bird with feathers

( I did start another track but didn't get past the intro... DJ Glooper

)

Ben

Techbot · Post by **Techbot** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 7:11 pm

He He. This is a heavy un.
It was Chemical Brothers inspired me to ave a go in the first place.

This has several moog presets, none of which come from moogs or moog emulations, but the korg prophecy, bass station and JP8000.

http://www.eclecticmeme.com/audio/0509- ... _gross.mp3

Markleford · Post by **Markleford** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:19 am

Chameleon

From Herbie Hancock's seminal "Head Hunters" album.

- m

Yagushi · Post by **Yagushi** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 4:40 am

There's nothing quite like a really cheesy cover of a classic instrumental to properly pay tribute to Moog synthesizers... Here's my take on "Sleepwalk" by Santos & Johnny... Enjoy!

http://mp3.yagushi.org/05_09_Yagushi_Sleepwalk.mp3

Three instances of ASynth is about the closest I'll ever get to an authentic-sounding Moog arrangement...

gunnare · Post by **gunnare** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 6:27 pm

Congratualtions!
I listened to the track and like it a lot. That is how a moog should sound!

But I think the lead line was one of my sounds.
Is the lead patch "Voyager slippery" in MinimogueVA?

I did the work on MinimogueVA because I cannot afford those expensive synts. Enjoy the Minimosta, it is a good synth. I have the demo on my machine.

Minimogue will have snappier envelope attack times in version 2,1. I did some testing today. The basses did benefit from the shorter attack times.

All the best
gunnar

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