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Patches performed live in one take.

Due to the expansive frequency content and harmonic complexity of the Moog Modular Synthesizer, studio monitors or high end headphones are required for the proper listening experience.

Moog Modular Artist Takes

Patches performed live in one take.

Due to the expansive frequency content and harmonic complexity of the Moog Modular Synthesizer, studio monitors or high end headphones are required for the proper listening experience.

Suzanne Ciani Take 2

Suzanne Ciani Take 1

Kaitlyn A. Smith

Holy Ghost Raw Sounds - Unmixed

Chris Berg Live Take 2

Chris Berg Take 1

Every sound is sourced from the RME, tracking Midi notes to Logic then controlling the RME as it plays the sounds, one track at a time. Audio mangling from real-time control of Eventide H3000. Post processing with delays and backwards reverb, and editing within Logic. No other synths or audio sources used.

1.Recalcitrant Malfeasance

Recently, Moog had the honor of sitting down with Nine Inch Nails’  Trent Reznor, the genre-defining music innovator, master synthesist and Academy Award winning composer. In the interview, Reznor recounts his intimate relationship with the Minimoog Voyager, which he feels “is the archetype of what a synthesizer is and should be.” Through personal stories, Reznor reveals his decades long history with the instrument and how it has shaped the way he views and creates music. 

The video is set to an original score by British electronic music producer, The Haxan Cloak, co-producer of Bjork’s Vulnicura.. Befitting the occasion, the artist used a Minimoog Voyager and a prototype Mother-32, Moog’s newest synthesizer, to create the score. 

"I made the track in a unique way that I never have before.

I have had modular synths for a long time, and consistently produced music with them, but purposefully never had a ‘keyboard-based’ setup because of not wanting to treat them in such a ‘traditional’ manner (purely for reasons of self-limitation).

Having the Voyager allowed me to utilize a more responsive approach of seeing the picture and essentially ‘playing’ along to it. I then took those results and used them to modulate other parameters and processed them further. The Mother 32 was used extensively as a sound source alongside also.

The Voyager is a synth I have always been fascinated by, but unfortunately never had the opportunity to own. I knew people that had them, but my first physical encounter was actually on the recent Bjork tour.  I used it for a lot for recreating basslines from her back catalogue, which it did effortlessly.
It’s such an incredibly versatile synth and has already become a uniquely indispensable backbone of my studio." - The Haxan Cloak

Archetype Of A Synthesizer - The Haxan Cloak

Dave Smith PRO2

Utilizing 8x Mother-32 Synthesizers, Eila and Richard Devine arrange a warm composition dedicated to the mothers in their lives.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koflHAPX1yE&lc=z12gep5yqoj1c51k123ry55zzlyiut55404

Little Gift | Eila & Richard Devine

Techno-rhythmic emancipator Russell E.L. Butler adopted four Mother-32s and one week later, “Sirens From a Distance” was born.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slY-F8VJrg0

Sirens From a Distance | Russell E.L. Butler

Bobby Krlic approaches music and composition from a place of primal perception. Performing under the name "The Haxan Cloak", Krlic crafts haunting soundscapes by harnessing the power of shifting air molecules into brooding, undulating waveshapes.

Shortly after co-producing Goldfrapp’s "Silver Eye", the British synth mystic takes to his Los Angeles home studio to weave new aural patterns into a track called “Transposition #4”.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4NAAilCD64

Transposition #4 | The Haxan Cloak

Moog Synthesizer IIIc (Or: Music For Riding Dragons) performed live in one take with no external effects. 

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFubiCmmEXc

Performance by Christopher Geissler (Moog Music Production Manager)

Chris Berg Live Take 2

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