2/10/2003: Forehead advertising

[Elspode]

Originally posted by smed
aahhh......moog.
We got one in high school, circa 1983.
32 keys, whole lotta slides and levers.
You had to program the entire sound envelope prior to playing.
very low-tech by todays standards.

Yeah, but that's the fun part...in reality, if you are programming a unique sound, an old analogue is much quicker, easier and more intuitive to use. Proof of this is the fact that more and more new digital synths are being produced with numerous knobs, etc, which allow real time programming of various functions.

One of the reasons these old analogue beasties have become so popular is the 'hands on' usability, something that was greatly lost in the advent of digital, sample-based synths. You can't spontaneously do a varying rate filter sweep with a digital synth whose filter function is eight layers deep in some postage stamp sized LCD display.

I miss my MiniMoog. That's why I keep this picture around.