# Bob Moog memorial Google Doodle **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-moog-memorial-google-doodle/622862 "2012-05-23T19:25:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-moog-memorial-google-doodle/622862/1 "2012-05-23T19:25:17Z")
As it’s music related, I figured it should be here. [Anyone produced any cool sounds yet?](http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Music/2012/0523/Bob-Moog-How-to-play-the-Moog-doodle) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-moog-memorial-google-doodle/622862/2 "2012-05-23T20:51:20Z")
Everything I do seems to make it sound worse. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-moog-memorial-google-doodle/622862/3 "2012-05-23T21:03:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashley_Pomeroy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-moog-memorial-google-doodle/622862/4 "2012-05-23T23:33:29Z")
It was fun, but it’s a shame the controls were so small! There’s a slightly larger variation [here](http://www.angryoctopus.co.nz/synth12/synth.php), 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. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-moog-memorial-google-doodle/622862/5 "2012-05-23T23:54:11Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-moog-memorial-google-doodle/622862/6 "2012-05-24T00:32:29Z")
> [@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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-moog-memorial-google-doodle/622862/7 "2012-05-24T04:25:15Z")
This was a bloody impressive Google Doodle. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-moog-memorial-google-doodle/622862/8 "2012-05-24T10:27:58Z")
[QUOTE=Baron Greenback] What a tricky bit of kit, assuming this is a reasonable simulation. 🙂 [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-moog-memorial-google-doodle/622862/9 "2012-05-25T05:56:48Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-moog-memorial-google-doodle/622862/10 "2012-05-25T08:27:02Z")
I’d have liked it save for the huge delay after pressing any key and getting sound, making recording anything with rhythm nearly impossible.