Sounds like you needed to be more careful with gain-staging / driving the various parts of the synth.
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I agree owning both the Bass station 2 and the Moog grandmother and having owned several vintage Moogs over the years, the BS2 gets close to Moog but really it has its own sound that’s decidedly different, if you want the Moog sound it’s a combination of the sound of the Oscillators and filter of course but I find it’s actually in the behavior as well, the behavior of the circuitry the reaction time of the envelopes etc and it’s also in the shortcomings. Like how vastly the volume drops on a Moog filter when you turn up the resonance etc so there’s a lot of reasons the Moogs sound like Moogs (or why any particular synth has a specific sound) I’ve owned enough synths over the years to find that there really is not actual substitute when you need or want a specific sound and wont settle for “gets close enough”
I have been very pleasantly surprised by the Moog grandmother and how much it truly encapsulates the sound of vintage Moogs, I was super disappointed with the sound of the voyager and the phatty series but whatever they did with the grandmother they finally got it right.
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I think Moog is wasting time with Subharmonicons and evil “studio sets”…
They should release a 3-osc synth in a DFAM/MOTHER format with mini / voyager specs, good modulation options, etc… Such a shame… modern day MiniMoog should be really mini : )
Something a bit like Behr model d but 1% better sounding and with a few modern twists…
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Huh, so you really think the SubH isn’t a very good (creamy) Moog?
I was actually considering getting one 2’nd hand since I find the raw oscillator amazing… and I dig the fact that it can be locked to the everyday chromatic scale so it always plays in tune.
For me, size and functionality seem to be the deciding factors… the sequencer is a bit of a novelty to control the pitch; but these sequencers can be sent out to other gear without being hardwired to the Moog.
Would anyone say it’d be a waste to use it as a single multi-osc CV/Gate module, similar to a Werkstatt-01?
(I say single because there’s only one envelope, it’s possible to use CV for two tones, but I consider it a single tuned multi-osc due to the single amp envelope)
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No, SubH sounds lovely of course! And concept is interesting. But it’s far from like having 3 osc mini Moog with all the tiny details and features about it.
Would like to have it sometimes…
I still happy with my little DFAM … amazing for moog sfx’s type of sounds, strange analog sequences, acid bass, small and so well designed! But I doubt that adding SubHarmonicon to it will make it a ‘mini’… Interesting ho hear that Voyager / Mini owners think about it
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FYI everybody, I’m reeeaaally diggin’ the grandmother—-thanks for the recommendations everybody.
It’s such an inspiration machine. Can snarl and roar, or whisper and purr. It can get as spacey or funky as you want it to be—very difficult to make it sound bad. Loving the simplicity. Starting to get the hang of how the patching works (which makes me super interested in those little black moog semi-modular boxes!)
I thought I would be kicking my minilogue to the curb—but it’s actually a nice counterpart to the grandmother. Way more of a modern sound on the minilogue with more variation in sounds (and polyphony, obviously).
Didn’t officially sign up for NGNY, but I am definitely taking it to heart and trying not to buy anything new—the grandmother I think will make this task a whole hell of a lot easier. Wheeeeeeeeee!
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