[Squawk 8888]

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[left that other site]

I remember those!

[aposiopetic]

Thanks for the post. Please add me to the ping list.

[Misterioso]

Learn the spelling for ShostAkovich.

[CAluvdubya]

I think I have the album, “Switched on Bach” somewhere. Now I have to go look.....

[To Hell With Poverty]

Ever hear of Stereolab, Squawk? They were a UK/French group who were big indie faves during the 90’s who made great use of the Moog and Farfisa. Their sound was basically The Velvet Underground plays Neu! songs. Literally:

http://youtu.be/3qEq4mAnV64

[Sirius Lee]

I was fortunate to learn my chops on a a system 55 (studio), and to own a mini-Moog (home/gigs) back in the day. Tempermental as all heck. The Moogs, too.

[dayglored]

> This is the Modern Music Ping List... FReepmail or reply to this post to be added to or removed from this list.

I cannot conceive of how I managed to live this long without realizing this list existed -- I must be on it. There simply is no alternative. Thank you SO much in advance. :)

-- Dayglored

[Lurker]

“Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and Rick Wright”

Saw all of them back in the day. Very, very cool.

[jcon40]

please add me to the list

An old man now but still a Synth Junkie. .... played Moogs but never owned one ...started with the Yamaha DX7 but also had wurlitzer elec, fender Rhodes 73’s that i wish i still had.

Still own several rack mounts including an old Proteus that I’ll never give up.

Dont gig as much now but play every day......

thx for post

[colinhester]

Cool....please add me to the Modern Music ping list.....

[ADemocratNoMore]

Real nice to hear, although modulars were never really “gone”, they have been in production by one outfit or another since the ancient time of the Great Analog Beasties.

Personally, while I've always drooled over such sexy pieces of hardware,, my lack of musical prowess precluded spending much money for keyboard instruments I could not play.

The PC, DAW and the VST changed all that for me and now I have several synths including the Arturia Modular V, the iMini, the Animoog, iSEM and iVCS3. In fact, I've got a few other MiniMoogs and VCS3s as well, both on my PC and my iPad, purchased at a fraction of the price of just one of the many modules that made up the old machines and I must say the softsynhs sound very close to the original for a fraction of the price.

I find it interesting to consider the evolution of noise generators, from the first drums to physical means of producing fixed pitches to electrical and electronic instruments that generate analog signals that resemble their physical predecessors to digital sound generators that were then programmed to have more of the quirks and instabilities of the analog world to physical modeling in software of the real world physics behind real world instruments.

One problem, the softsynths were lacking those big knobs and switches. The solution...

http://www.synth-project.de/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCYKA-Ty1Js

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXcIDzRtsJI

Some really incredible builds ! Later I'll post about the time I got beat up by Keith Emerson's Moog 3C.