The weirdly tight cloth (?) gloves were the first thing I noticed too!
I’ve also noticed some eurorack focused youtubers who demo with nitrile gloves on. Is this glove thing an extreme form of “I must not get body oils on my gear” or is there some new synth-fetish subculture that I’m clueless about? 
But yes, demo sounds nice!
Totally agree, one of my favorite features of the Norand Mono - 3 pole variable state filter.
Well, a bit late because of real life things, but I am in. We’ll see how it goes.
Just pushed the button, got one arriving tomorrow
Thank you for sharing, I am glad you find the presets interesting.
The reason I’ve chosen to wear gloves is because I have vitiligo and some people might find it somehow disturbing (although is just skin depigmentation).
It’s not comfortable, especially that the keys and everything become very slippery, but this is the solution I found.
I’m glad that you think it sounds nice, thank you!
Thank you, I really appreciate it!
figure out how to use the gloves and video effects to do something like @ylva
For what it’s worth, I don’t think anyone will find it disturbing. You can embrace it!
Great patches btw.
I don’t think so. What I find disturbing is someone wearing a rabbit mask.
Out of interest is anyone else here using their Messenger with modular? If so, how?
For what it’s worth, I’ve seen supermodels with vitiligo.
Anyone disturbed by that needs to get a grip.
Marbled pigment isn’t weird, but the gloves, um…
Cheers!
Holy smokes. I don’t think I’ve had more fun with an instrument than I did today. I’ve owned several bits of gear from Moog, and I understand that there is trepidation after the buyout but this thing is so bloody fun.
The controls are immediately understandable as with most (traditional) Moog synths. There is that classic colour and warmth to the sound that just makes you want to cake the thing in reverb and pretend you are on a spaceship.
Then you get to the arp/seq. Man, whoever designed the digital side of this deserves a Nobel prize haha. It’s so obvious how things work with only a small read of the manual. And it has parameter locks!!! I like that you can only lock one parameter per step, it already led to some interesting things I would have never thought of.
Sorry for gushing but I’m in love lol.
most important word in your post, and for this synth: FUN.
I have only had about an hour with it before evening dinner and a movie but damn, it has thunder.
Build feels solid but it’s also light, decent keybed. I effectively replaced a bs2 with this and what a great move, and that before I started playing with the FM.
Really interested in the Messenger after playing it at a store, this thing really sounds massive!
But two things irritated me and maybe some owners can enlighten me 
Cheers!
EDIT: 2 is solved, from the FW changelog: “Removes situation where moving from Arp patch (PLAY ON) to patch with sequence auto-plays se-
quence” (1.0.7)
2nd EDIT: 1 is solved as well; the patch volume memory setting is default ‘off’ and indeed affects the master volume, so no extra gain stage or ‘relative’ volume setting… :-/ one can hope on a FW update…
Posted in the Moog forum first, but that forum is a bit slow (apparently each message needs to be proof-read by a moderator before being posted, and it’s been days now…?)
Anyhow:
Had the Messenger for a few days, and all the mentioned positives apply, but:
is there a chance to have a sequence play and use the keyboard to play notes on top of it, without those notes being recorded? Right now, pressing a keyboard key will transpose the sequence (which in my case is rather counter-productive: once the sequence is dialed in, I want it to stay there).
Yes, mono synth, but what I would wish for is like on other synths where you can either play on top of the “space” or rests and add single, individual notes to the sequence, jamming it live, or you can use the keyboard to just steal the mono voice from the sequencer, hence introducing spontaneous rests.
Is this possible at all? I have not found a setting for it…
I miss their music so much… I love their albums!
@michaalhell: In case you’ve missed it:
