Moog Vocoder

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#21

I completely agree with you if all this was, was a way to buy a synth – but i see it as a lot more than that. Heck if nothing more than a place to spend a few days and meet a bunch of interesting people – that’s worth the margin of cost on the synth to me. It also depends how precious this amount of money is to you – it isn’t to me. I also really like doing electronic assembly.

Weird to think but if i went i almost might switch sides and hope that the engineering synth is not sold commercially – as the one that you have then goes way up in value. For instance what’s the price of a Subharmonicon now?

So it’s: Yikes! Why haven’t i gone before.

#22

Definitely watching this later. Hope they release this and I hope that it’s vocoder section is great; I’d like a good vocoder and really don’t want to have to consider the Behringer, because… well, Behringer.

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#23

I think there are better vocoders out there, if your measure is the intelligibility of the output. The 1979 Moog Vocoder that i put videos above is much better in this regard. The Spectravox is only 8 band and analog so it’s less impressive that way. It’s all the other ways this is put together, that you’ll see in Loopops detailed review when you watch it, that make the Spectravox so interesting to me.

As far as other vocoders out there the Waldorf STVC has my interest – that is if they ever do ship that thing, it’s very late! The Roland VT4 is nice now too.

#24

We still haven’t heard a decent demo of it using a polysynth plugged into the Carrier input. Loopop’s video above starts out with something plugged into that input while he’s describing it, but then when the sound demo starts he’s just using the internal mono oscillator instead. Kind of frustrating. I’d really like to hear some chords from a string synth ran through it.

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#25

Is there a “rule” to good carriers for vocoders?
Or does each one react differently?
Do richer (i.e. sawtooth) waveforms work better?

Just curious about vocoder carriers in general.

#26

If you wanna just own it, yeah that’s expensive. if you want to learn how to built it by the pros : that’s a great price

#27

for sure it could be worth it for the experience. not sure that it would be for me, after travel, lodging, time off of work, etc… I’m sure it’s fun though!

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#28

Ah ha!

Moog actually is re-releasing this Vocoder!!

A little pricey – but this is the real deal, this is not a digital remake.

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