I've been watching the thread over on gearslutz about this synth since last week. A $5K monosynth in this economy doesn't seem like a very smart business move. Seems like Moog would be smarter to follow in DSI's footsteps and make more smaller and more affordable versions of their synths. Oh well, regardless of how well this synth sells now, it will undoubtedly be selling for $40K on eBay twenty years from now, so maybe I'll buy one and store it away.

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$5000 is a lot but you get it with a cute cat.

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you would think they would make the patch bay digital. Seems a little too nostalgic and gimmicky.

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Originally posted by cryophonik I've been watching the thread over on gearslutz about this synth since last week. A $5K monosynth in this economy doesn't seem like a very smart business move. Seems like Moog would be smarter to follow in DSI's footsteps and make more smaller and more affordable versions of their synths. Oh well, regardless of how well this synth sells now, it will undoubtedly be selling for $40K on eBay twenty years from now, so maybe I'll buy one and store it away.

You it really doesn't matter. There are 500 people out there who will shell out for this just because they have to have it. that's $250,000 without even having to market it apart from just announcing "it's here".

When we launched the normal voyager in the UK at an event with Bob, we sold out (40) of them in less than an hour, and they couldn't even demo it there.

It also doesn't cost them a huge amount to do a new version - all the technology is the same, it's really a new chassis and small CV patchbay which is not the expensive bit.

ugliest synth ever. wouldnt keep it if i got it for free. analog synths are ridiculous today imo.

I don't like keyboard synths as the keyboard is always rather cheap. I am much more a fan of rack synths if you have to have hardware. I suppose perhaps this will be a big seller for all those hipster indie electro pop bands playing live although for some reason , I see them spending the money on ugly clothing and settling for the cheapest korg synth on the market.

I kinda really want one of these, actually. I've had a high res image of one as my desktop background since it as announced last week. I think it would just be SO MUCH fun having a moog with a nice big keyboard like that and the modular capabilities. It's really a piece of synth gluttony.

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Originally posted by alanzo I kinda really want one of these, actually.

wow what a surprise lol

god i love that patch bay

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Originally posted by nortek wow what a surprise lol

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Originally posted by cryophonik A $5K monosynth in this economy doesn't seem like a very smart business move. Seems like Moog would be smarter to follow in DSI's footsteps and make more smaller and more affordable versions of their synths.

Exactly what I've been thinking for at least a year now but they have yet to comply. A rackable Little Phatty would be pretty awesome, especially if they could be poly chained. Or, even better, come out with a tiny unit the size of a mooger-fooger for, say, $500, that has a nice moog filter, two envelopes, a bit of modulation, and a single osc. Basically a modern-day micro moog without the keyboard. GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY HERE, MOOG.

Maybe if bob wasn't dead they would release synths as fast as DSI....

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Last edited by alanzo on Sep-14-2010 at 01:03