Bob Moog memorial Google Doodle

[gaffa]

As it's music related, I figured it should be here.

Anyone produced any cool sounds yet?

[Loach]

Everything I do seems to make it sound worse.

[Biggirl]

I played Do-Re-Mi on it. And then I fuzzed it up. Can you record separate tracks and play it back? Man. like I didn't waste enough time doing nothing on the internet.

[Ashley Pomeroy]

It was fun, but it's a shame the controls were so small! There's a slightly larger variation here, but without a filter and with only two oscillators, so it's not much of a Minimoog. But he tried, which is more than I did.

[gaffa]

Originally Posted by Biggirl

I played Do-Re-Mi on it. And then I fuzzed it up. Can you record separate tracks and play it back? Man. like I didn't waste enough time doing nothing on the internet.

Yeah, it has 4 monophonic tracks. Just click on the meters to enable recording on each track.

[Baron Greenback]

Originally Posted by Biggirl

I played Do-Re-Mi on it. And then I fuzzed it up. Can you record separate tracks and play it back?

Aye, there are four tracks available, on the right hand side (and you can record there too). Mind you, I could be making something more musical by actually stamping on frogs. What a tricky bit of kit, assuming this is a reasonable simulation.

[Savannah]

This was a bloody impressive Google Doodle.

[Small Clanger]

Originally Posted by Baron Greenback

What a tricky bit of kit, assuming this is a reasonable simulation.

Well... You've got simulated VCOs with switchable wave forms, a simple ASR "VCA" with follower filter, rather OTT portamento (which I couldn't turn off?) and seemingly uncontrollable LFO modulation. So reasonable simulation? I think not, though I was a Korg/Arp/Yamaha user, never had a Moog

Back in the old day's we reckoned that you could tell how easy a synth* was to use** by how long it took you to set up the sound of a helicopter attack. No chance with this toy, for a start there's no noise generator. For seconds you can't patch the LFO to either the "VCA" or "VCO", for thirds....

* a proper VCO analog synth mind you.

** and how proficient the user. This lasted until about when the Yamaha DX7 came out and nobody could figure out how to make that sound like anything except bits of metal being banged together.

[DfrntBreign]

I played with that all day! I've always wanted a mini-MOOG but never had a chance to get my hands on one (not that i knew how to play it). The bizarre part, at least for me, was how easily I understood (mostly) what I was doing with it. Best Google Doodle Ever!

[BigT]

I'd have liked it save for the huge delay after pressing any key and getting sound, making recording anything with rhythm nearly impossible.