Re: [AH] Re: Moog IIIp back for 40 units

From Andrew Horton
Sent Wed, Feb 21st 2018, 17:49

Matt, that's interesting. I am a big 100m owner but a 700 has always
been my dream machine. I want to believe that it sounds like a System
100 but fully patchable.

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Matt Davey <xxxx.xxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> Justin, the system 700 is very overrated from my experience.  You can get
> much the same character from a system100m, with the added bonus that it's
> all in easy reach for shorter patch cables.
>
> Unless you are a trillionaire and have a wall of them, and servants to run
> around patching where you tell them to, the sys700 is a big waste of space
> and money compared to alternatives.
>
> If someone gave me one, i would sell it.  If someone gave me one on the
> condition that i couldn't sell it, i would use it in that case, i guess.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 2:36 AM, Stephen Watson <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> What's funny about the Moog modular, especially stuff form the Happy Moog
>> era is the average person not into synthesis would think it sounds like a
>> cheap Casio from the 1980s. They'll be like you paid "$30,000 to sound like
>> a Realistic Concertmate-670?" Then look at you like you were some mega-nerd.
>> And you're like "No, a Moog modular doesn't sound like a Casio, maybe a
>> simple square wave oscillator but a Moog modular can do complex things." and
>> they are like "it sounds like a Casio that you buy at Toy R Us."
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