Man i’ve been round this block so much recently. Then i pinch myself and say menus make it easier?? But im coming round. 
I was going to write the word guitar in the thread. Saying some days you just want to pick up a guitar. Or play the piano. But im thinking on electronic days when you want electronic sound how do you go about this?
Thanks for this. Ive checked out some videos and it does most of what i ask. Two would be amazing. One for Drums the other for basslines. Maybe add a Prophet 5 if thats not cheating.(which it is).
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Is that Keith Emerson?
Yes indeed.
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These cables are worst than menu diving, don’t they?
Yeah, but…
…no menus! 
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Did you take a look at the small moogs (mother, dfam, subharm) too? Behringer Crave („clone“ of mother) could be an option too.
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Yes the 3 of them together. But something holds me back. Its like im buying into the whole Moog thing. But i came across this video.
2 Norands a Prophet 6 and a Jomox drum machine. Which is a sound i absolutely love when put together.(pure analogue bliss). Here my wallet goes again lol.
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I have the Matriarch. It lives up to the hype. The sound-playability-fun factor is really, really high. It has a distinct sound, and a focused range, and you might not want that sound and you might want other gear beside it. I found that once I had it, I didn’t find any of my other synths as appealing to play (as in “it’s very addictive”). I have not used the Sound Studio range, so my experience doesn’t translate directly… but I imagine (hope) this “very appealing” quality is part of the “Moog thing”.
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I was hoping it wouldn’t be too transparent.
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Clearly this
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Interesting topic, and one I started mulling over recently. I’m changing my setup somewhat to accomodate more ambient / soundscape kind of stuff. And then this subject popped into my head, and I started thinking that I love playing my Moog Grandmother the most. I mean, it’s an instrument.
And I started thinking about what kind of gear would suit that music, and if I could switch over to that. However, I don’t have the means nor the space to really do this at the moment, but as I was getting rid of a relatively menu-heavy device, and looking at other menu (screen) heavy devices, this train of thought also started up in my head.
Still, also because I can’t (and don’t really want to) throw out everything I have for some notion that pops in my head, I’m not going to go down that rabbit-hole at the moment. And that includes modular, which both terrifies and fascinates me.
Anyway, searching for ideas I ran across another thread, on Reddit, where this was part of one of the responses: “If you can remember instantly how to change the settings you need without breaking the “flow”, then the menu diving is not a problem.”
And I realized that, though I am just getting to know it better, the Digitone is really good at that. I mean, yes, menu’s for sure, but the combination with the 8 rotaries makes it really intuitive quickly. And that thought helped me, for now, not getting carried away in switching out gear.
Of course with ambient / soundscapes I may be less reliant on sequencing, but it’s still a very useful tool to have. And the Digitone brings this in spades. Regardless, I have decided to minimize the number of “grooveboxes” in my setup, because having only one “brain” simplifies things.
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