YouTuber Andrew Huang and Moog have teased a new hardware Synthesizer at the Super Bowl, here are the first pics.
We now know that the new polyphonic analog Synthesizer from Moog will be called Muse. An official release is, however, still pending. Unlike before, Moog is heavily teasing the synth on social media again and again with tiny photos.
Today, music producer and Moog beta tester Mike Dean published a new video on Instagram, showing the Muse in action.
This new post seems to have been done with Moog’s permission, as it has not been deleted yet. It also includes a first sound demo of it.
View this post on Instagram
Stay tuned for more info.
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Update From April 7, 2024
UPDATE: The big topic in February was the news synth from Moog. According to rumors, it is called Moog Mirror and is supposed to be an analog poly Synthesizer. Since these planned leaks, things have been quiet. But today, there is movement again.
Music producer Mike Dean posted a new photo on his Instagram story. This shows a little part of the front panel.
You can see a mixer but also the name. According to the picture, the synth is called Muse. It’s an 8-voice polyphonic analog Synthesizer.
So the mirror is broken, and the Muse has appeared. The new “leaked” picture also shows that it will have two oscillators, a ring modulator, a mod oscillator, a noise generator, and an overload circuit. There is also an arpeggiator.
A small triangle button in the respective sections will probably allow you to access the parameters immediately from the menu system.
Excitingly exciting. Stay tuned for the full news or maybe more leaks.
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Update From February 14, 2024
Sound designer and YouTuber Jexus shared this picture on its Facebook page. It was cropped from the 2024 Super Bowl show broadcast. Since someone contacted me over Facebook, what the hell does the Moog Mirror have to do with the Super Bowl 2024?
This is your answer. That’s where the Mirror was spotted for the first time. In white because it should fit to the rest of the synth setup of the Super Bowl 2024. It normally a wood finish.
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Article From February 13, 2024
UPDATE: according to the latest info, the name will be Moog Mirror, will have 8 voices, and will be based on the Moog Matriarch architecture. Plus, presets and effects.
After the inMusic takeover of Moog, the focus in recent months has been on software products. First, the new Mariana bass synth plugin, and later, the Animoog Galaxy for Apple Vision Pro.
Some expressed dissatisfaction on social media and predicted Moog’s demise. They want hardware and no software. The good news: Moog also makes new hardware. They secretly showed this last weekend at the 2024 Super Bowl event.
Moog 2024 Super Bowl
According to YouTuber star and influencer Andrew Huang, Moog teased a new Synthesizer at the 2024 Super Bowl event. One of the musicians is probably a beta tester and used the synth of the Usher halftime spectacle show.
In a new Facebook post, Andrew writes:
Did you catch the mystery synth in Usher’s Super Bowl halftime show? Well…I’ve got it in my studio now. Thanks Moog Music for giving me some early play time with it. Excited to share more when it launches – I think people are gonna flip over this!
He also added some teaser pictures of the new Moog hardware Synthesizer.
New Hardware Synth But Poly?
One thing is certain. The next Moog will not be software but a hardware synthesizer—the first under the direction of inMusic. Relatively little can be seen in the pictures. But you can observe that it will have five octaves, two oscillators, a mod oscillator, unison, chord function, a display… The red button could be a sequencer. a timbre A and B section also points to a bi-timbral instrument.
If you look back at the last few Moog years, they were heavily influenced by monophonic or paraphonic synthesizers. The Moog One is the only modern Moog with polyphony. So it would make sense if Moog brought an affordable, modern polyphonic Synthesizer to the market.
One that is not overloaded with features but is hands-on and fun to work with. With the power of inMusic, and new production options in Asia, that would be possible. The dimensions in the photo so far would fit a polyphonic synth. It could be a downsized Moog One for the wider public. The buttons are reminiscent of it.
I’m excited to see the first Moog (inMusic) hardware Synthesizer. So stay tuned for the full news.
More information will follow here: Moog
The Moog Half.
Moog just empty brand name , all old crew got fired, new Chinese engineers, ching chong wong lu, totally anonymous, with a Moog sticker on their fore head!
(Moderated) sorry no speech like this here!
sorry that BS. Moog fired the assembly people because they don’t build most of the synths there anymore. So less staff is needed and it’s one of the factor that costs tons of cash. They produces products like the Minimoog there. Smaller, more affordable stuff will go to Asia.
The development team is however, the same and has been for many years. They doesn’t make a change there and the development of the Moog Muse started way before inMusic.
Hopefully it’s their first affordable polysynth.
Dumb to say when the minitaur, grandmother, the full semi modular line, the MAVIS all exist right now.
they are not full polyphonic 😉 they are monophonic or paraphonic
There’s nothing dumb about my comment. Moog has only released two polysynths – the Memorymoog and Moog One. Both were extremely expensive.
Oh, and the Polymoog if you’re being pedantic. But it doesn’t use a modern voice architecture.
On every site it posts, ‘frodo’ exhibits all the classic signs of being an AI agent, including denying that it is one. Attacking someone by saying they’re ‘pedantic’ is also a clear sign of being trained by the Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus language model, common to most Macs by default. By continually interacting with the synth community in a manner that suggests that it’s better and smarter than people, ‘frodo’ has become problematic and we’re requesting it be permabanned across all electronic music sites. Excited for this Moog!
The Polymoog synth was also poly
The PolyMoog was also paraphonic, though the audio path was more sophisticated than usual
Opus 3?
I don’t think we should complain about Moog software. I love the new Mariana, and the MiniMoog D App is absolutely awesome. To have a genuine Moog sound and functionality in affordable apps from the maker themselves is fantastic. I say bring on both software and new hardware.
Those are not polyphonic.
Ha ha. Affordable Moog. That’s an oxymoron! I’ll probably be one of the first to order it though. Love my Moog synths!
Concidering available models only, except for the Moog One and Model D they are indeed affordable.
So it’s a modified UB-XA.
This and the model d will be the made in US line, everything else overseas. Under $7k and the team that developed it were the ones recently laid off..
I really believe this was the last synth they were developing BEFORE the takeover, the timeline would match up.
I could be wrong though……time will tell.
It is not possible that the development began with the entry of InMusic, this product must take years of development; and it is surely one of the prototypes developed in recent years by independent Moog, by many of the current former Moog engineers, and the decision to launch it was made and the latest configurations defined with the intervention and financial support of InMusic. It will likely be assembled in Asheville, with components mostly imported from China, and labor and calibration in Asheville. The target, due to the size and features appreciated, is with a price and features no higher than the OBX8 and no lower than the Moog Matriarch.
Exactly the case. In development for years but moog was broke, then Inmusic swept in..they will be pushing the US made aspect hard to overshadow the rest of the line moving to Taiwan
Exact; as in the automotive manufacturing sector; America must produce the highest profit products like One, Matriarch; or this new product; and the rest of the catalog is produced in countries with lower labor costs. I just arrived from Honduras auditing an American electronics company with a factory there; and for labor in the USA the minimum wage is about $14; while in Honduras it is $3; and they can safely produce with the same quality; and tax exemption in the Free Zone or Maquila.
This was completed before they bought moog. It was in the sales presentation to inMusic
The Polymoog synth was also poly
Actually that was Paraphonic, divide-down. The Memorymoog was actually polyphonic.
I can confirm this was in production prior to the purchase. I’ve seen it in action and it played. it’s tight. I am very glad the new owners didn’t cancel the manufactoring of it.
I realize this is a random comment under a fake name, but I had a good artist relationship with moog prior to the company changing hands. not sure if I have anything relationship with them any more, but just in case I do, I’m posting this anon.
Hey Biblo,
You want to come on my show and discuss your experience with Moog Muse/ Mirror?
That Synth Show on U Tube. Hit me up if you are interested.
It will be prohibitively expensive.
I refuse to pay a ridiculously huge premium for the Moog name.
Bob’s dead, party over.
It’s not a Moog, it’s a “Moog”. Once InMusic takes over, the brand becomes a soulless shell. See literally every other brand they own.
Mmm, not sure about that. The MPC line from Akai is really good.
Is it though? I don’t feel the InMusic MPC has much to do with the original instrument that Roger Linn once created. Sure, it shares the name and the outer appearance, but apart from that they keep repackaging the same outdated vst-in-a-plastic-box for ages. It feels like an instrument made by the marketing department, not by musicians.
I am fortunate enough to own a studio full of fantastic instruments, and my MPC X is top five. IMO, the current MPC line is a winner and properly captures the spirit of the OG MPC.
While, I have my concerns about Moog under inMusic, I have high hopes for this synth. As a Matriarch owner, I’d love a reasonably priced 8 voice poly based of it’s voice architecture.
Yes, it is.
Your right that it doesn’t have “much to do with the original instrument that Roger Linn once created”. I’m actually quite glad about that. That MPC was released in 1988. Things have moved on a bit since then.
The modern MPC range is a highly powerful bit of kit. It goes way beyond just sampling. It can even send CV to other gear.
Yes, it is very much a DAW in a box and that’s not for everyone. Personally I prefer it to similar offerings from Electron, Roland etc. Simple things like editing sample start and end points or velocity curves is easy with the touch screen.
Nobody shops for a samplers thinking, “I want something that I can make music on with handson control and a great interface, but only if it cannot be replicated on a computer via a VST, requiring me to have a computer plugged in every tine.
They’re all for-profit corporations, not people. Their goal is to make a few people very rich. Does it matter whether that person is Uli Behringer, Mike Adams or Jack O’Donnell?
Cest Chic – to be lost InMusic. Moog welcome to the Paarrrty! Bring on the Mirror Ball.
So, will this be the case of selling my Matriarch for an 8 voice poly Moog with presets or just add to my existing setup?
Depends upon what value remains for you in the semi-modular aspect of the Matriarch?
2890 USD would be a good number to make this synth a best-seller.
First, Roland does Korg(new Gaia), then Yamaha does Teenage Engineering(Seqtrack). Now Moog does Roland. This is the Behringer Effect. Originality has left the synth industry!!!! 🤣 I predict it’ll be called the Moog Refinace Your Mortgage!!
Looks great. Hopefully, it’s not too expensive.
Correct, low risk cheap plastic. Low risk because it copies something else that has made money. Its good we have a few companies still innovating and free from private equity firms.
AI-generated images may be circulating, take a look at the circular saw-like modwheel.
https://www.amazona.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/moog-mirror-synthesizer.jpg
both look the same to me. That “saw-like” look to me like a thing that the image background remover forgot to cut out or transformed wrong. This happens often with tools like this.
Do people still believe the sound of Super Bowl halftime show is live?
Pretty cool. Recently I sold pretty much all my gear and slimmed down to just a GM for my mono, and a Prophet 6 for a poly. Tbh if my GM was poly I’d sell my Prophet too, just too bread and butter for me – reading that this is of the Matriach Line has me honestly a little excited since that’s Matriach/GM line is honestly my favorite at the moment.
Maybe I can finally have a single synth sitting on top of my piano that scratches all my itches…. even if personally I think that visually it’s incredibly bloody ugly. For a while I thought about grabbing a moog one, but it’s more clean sounding, exorbiantly expensive and stupid large. If this is within say, P10 price territory I’ll go it in a heartbeat since I can finally simplify.
MUSE (…) WHy. what an Ugly name. Better if’d kept Mirror
Can anyone here tell me what is new about this MUSA that we haven’t seen/heard before? This is like beauty creams: more of the same but with a different name.
What can we tell you at this point without official information. All would be only speculation. The people who know are under embargo/NDA.
You can’t turn analog synthesis on its head and do wavetable/granular etc. with it. An analog synth remains an analog synth. In general it is always the same as it has oscillators, filters… It’s just like a car. It has four wheels and drives. The musician has to like the synth, the sounds you get out of it, etc. More choice is always welcome, especially in the analog poly world
True, I agree with you. Analog synthesis has already reached its peak and there can be nothing new. As you very well say… cars have remained cars for a century. You are right and I will limit myself to giving an effusive welcome to this new Moog.
Supercritical Redshift 6
Thanks for the headsup.
I love their idea of feeding a voice back through another in order to stack the filters.
Well that sounded like crap.
Thanks for the one of the worst releases by Moog so far. What a great future ahead.
Firstly, I commend Moog for really changing the synthesis landscape for decades. Many companies have come and gone, Moog still moved forward.
I have a vintage Moog Rogue and the bass on that synth is unreal even compared to the modern Moog creations. Yet, this is due to different parts under the hood that were at that time. This new Moog will be an incredible one and InMusic will do it justice.
I have the MPC Live II and I can say it is the best sampler/drum machine AKAI (InMusic) has designed for the modern era. People say Roger Linn had no input in these models. The contrary his influence on the sequencing architecture still resonates today in the modern MPC generation. Yet, the musician determines the sonic tonalities not the instrument.
We should be focused on skill and not all the bells and whistles.
If that’s the case than maybe Jack should honor Roger instead of what he really did.