Subj : Hey Rob...
To : Digital Man
From : Ille Homine Albe
Date : Sun Aug 19 2007 12:13 pm
Re: Hey Rob...
By: Digital Man to Ille Homine Albe on Sun Aug 19 2007 11:07 am
> > So right now you have... two ELP CDs...?
>
> Yeah, they're getting a lot of use! :-)
Very cool. I'm probably going to have to learn some of Emerson's Hammond work
before we jam, huh? :|_
Lots of sheet music used to be available, but not anymore. I should have
snagged it. That stuff is really beyond me to pick up by ear, most of it.
> > > Aren't the SE devices related to Moog somehow?
> >
> > They're both analog synthesizers. The SE-1X is similar in configuration
> > Minimoog: 3 oscillators, 1 voice. But it has no keyboard, four ADSR enve
> > generators (Minimoog has 3 ADR), 3 LFOs (Minimoog has none, but you can u
> > oscillator 3 as an LFO), and it's programmable.
> >
> > The Omega 8 is unlike anything Moog produced, more like the Oberheim 4-vo
> > except with 8 voices, 2 VCOs per voice, 3 ADSR envelopes, 2 LFOs. And...
> > programmable. Also, it kills.
>
> Ah. I thought I remembered you saying that the SE devices shared some herita
> with the Moog (or maybe it was Oberheim). <shrug>
Maybe I referred to it as a "Minimoog clone?" Because it's more similar than
different, the differences being improvements, except the lack of a keyboard.
But every monophonic synth is indebted to Moog for that unit in that it was
the first of its kind. And it was the most popular: they made 12,000 of them.
The new Minimoog has improvements, too, but it's about $3000; an Omega 4-voice
is about $3200.
Here's the SE-1X:
http://www.studioelectronics.com/images/popup/popup_WeddingDayBlues_SE-1X.jpg
Here's the old Minimoog:
http://www.bernhard-doering.de/Synthi-Museum/Museums-Guide/Moog/Mini-Moog/Minim
oog-front.jpg
And the new Minimoog:
http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/0/1/1/289011.jpg
