This messenger feels like Bad gear to me
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Does anyone know if the Messenger will self calibrate/tune its oscillators when you switch it on? I canāt see any options for calibration in the manual. Or is this not required in a synth like this?
I hate to be negative, but the āMessengerā Outline āLogoā gives me an extremely cheap vibe. And why do they have another Logo theyāve used in the Video. As if someone didnāt have the guts to put it onto the synth in the last moment, and/or in the last minute a person who is not a designer slapped this outline on there per instructions from high-up.
Even if that all is not what happened, it still is the vibe the logo print oozes 
But of course, one can print a sticker and put it over that.
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I agree, why didnāt they use that fantastic font that appears in the video thumbnail!
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Well, itās already received enough speculative hate from people whoāve never played it.
The Messenger is another iteration of the mono synth. It is priced to interest the serious hobbyist. There are good sequencing and performing functions. If this was a Korg wouldnāt people be saying it was good?
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Likely no, theyād complain that it is priced above the monologue, despite the feature differences.
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I just say something about my feeling
No hate, but doesnt feel right to me.
The audio i hear is not really appealing to me
The looks are not in my taste
I do understand the position it has in the market. I am not there. But no hate. I hate it if people misuse my words 
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Is there such thing as too much marketing? After a few YouTuber videos it begin to feel really disingenuous and actually really turns me off the product. I wonder if this type of YouTube blitz marketing is losing its effectiveness or if Iām just too jaded by it all now.
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I think you were just describing how you managed to observe the current āformulaā commonly employed to create hype and sales for a synth-related product, good or otherwise.
If Iād been trapped in a cave for the last 30 years - I can imagine how Iād be impressed by this synth.
Moog should have named this, The Ouroboros
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Cuckoo knows how to explore a new synth.
Thank you Cuckoo !!
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Now that Iāve had a chance to watch a few videos, I think this looks like a fun synth. The sequencer looks fun to jam on. Some of the basic functions remind me of jamming on my Monologue, being able to turn notes on and off and whatnot, but there are other options, like gate and note probability, and note pool. The mod bus looks easy to assign things. Also cool is that the sub oscillator has variable wave shapes, and it can be modulated separately from the oscillator that itās derived from. I look forward to trying one out. Maybe a music store nearby will get one sooner rather than later.
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Yeah I dunno I canāt really watch the 40min long tutorial review things anymoreā¦ let alone like the 4 or 5 of them that launch with a product but I never really liked them, like what good does hearing someone sweep oscillator shapes really do someone. Iād rather just listen to patchs people are making and it in the context of musicā¦ and just general stuff thatās broken stuff that works funny which generally seems to only comes out once people in forums and stuff get there hands on it.
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Loopopās
I hope Moog / inMusic looks at ways to get this to work inside the synth. Definitely useful, and sounds good ā itās basically there, so it seems possible.
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Moog wankers.
Now Iāll never sell that bloody sub37.
Fucksake.
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Iām pretty sure this is one of those synths that most Youtubers raving about it now will just never appear in their setup again. Itās a nice machine, but I doubt it will excite those who already have a bazillion (mono) analog synths.
Watching the Sonicstate video, I also found it offputting how often the Moog guy pointed out that āthis is a classical Moogā thing. We get it, Moog is still Moog after being sold. Just cut back those marketing blurbs if youāre talking to Nick Batt and play us some nice synth patches instead.
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300 ex Moog employees hardly think itās the same company
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It surely did something. Nick Batt gave the Award of best Monosynth of SB2025 to the Moog Messenger. 
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What was the monosynth competition this year?
Novation Bass Station in a new color way $579
A vaporware SuperLate Space Bee $1890
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Good point. Does the Majella Implexus in black count?
From what Iāve seen, I would have give the Award to the Instruo Seashell.
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