{"id":650,"date":"2010-12-07T19:59:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T03:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/?p=650"},"modified":"2011-07-14T20:01:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T04:01:31","slug":"micromoog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/item\/micromoog","title":{"rendered":"Micromoog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-651\" title=\"Micromoog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/micromoog.jpg\" alt=\"Micromoog\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Micromoog was Moog and friends&#8217; solution to making synthesizers affordable to poor starving musicians. It has a fraction of the features (and 1\/3 of the oscillators) that the Minmoog has, but still has quite a few of its own. A multitude of rotary and rocker switches provides flexible routing options without making it difficult to operate. Even though it&#8217;s only got 1 oscillator, it has a variable doubling control that divides it down one or two octaves for extra Moogy phatness.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 Variable-Waveshape Oscillator<\/li>\n<li>LFO<\/li>\n<li>Envelope Generator<\/li>\n<li>24db\/octave Filter<\/li>\n<li>Noise Generator<\/li>\n<li>Sample and Hold<\/li>\n<li>32 Key Keyboard<\/li>\n<li>Mod Wheel<\/li>\n<li>Ribbon Controller for Pitch Bend<\/li>\n<li>Monophonic<\/li>\n<li>All Analogue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The best part about this particular Micromoog is that it was found in a dumpster and still works great. Why somebody would throw something like this out I have no idea, but they obviously didn&#8217;t know (or care) what they had. When I first plugged it in I expected a puff of smoke or at the very least silence. It fired right up though. Right away I was able to play the filter with the keyboard. After some wiggling of dirty pots I was able to get the oscillator to make sound. Overall it needs some cleaning, the keyboard needs some new bushings and I think one of the rotary switches needs to be resoldered, but it works great. Even the ribbon controller, which tends to have problems on these Moog synthesizers, works just fine.<\/p>\n<p>Cosmetically it&#8217;s a bit scratched, there&#8217;s an extra hole in the back and the sweet sweet simulated woodgrain finish is starting to peel, but it&#8217;s not too bad for a synth that was made in the late &#8217;70s and stuffed into a dumpster.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-652\" title=\"Robot Rock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/micromoog-robot.jpg\" alt=\"Robot Rock\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Micromoog was Moog and friends&#8217; solution to making synthesizers affordable to poor starving musicians. It has a fraction of the features (and 1\/3 of the oscillators) that the Minmoog has, but still has quite a few of its own. A multitude of rotary and rocker switches provides flexible routing options without making it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-synthesizers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modd3d.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}