26 Jul
1998
26 Jul
'98
7:21 a.m.
I've recently gotten the necessary hardware and software together to
transfer Records (16, 33, 45, and 78) to CD. As part of this I was digging
through my parents Record collection and found a record that is Moog music.
It was something I was looking for, as it was so unusual that I remember
when my dad brought it home over 20 years ago.
Anyway I was wondering if anyone knows anything about what kind of hardware
was used for this?
Zane
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26 Jul
26 Jul
7:30 a.m.
At 12:21 26-07-98 -0700, you wrote:
I've recently gotten the necessary hardware and
software together to
transfer Records (16, 33, 45, and 78) to CD. As part of this I was digging
through my parents Record collection and found a record that is Moog music.
<snip>
Anyway I was wondering if anyone knows anything about
what kind of hardware
was used for this?
There are doubtless other electronic music experts that can tell you more,
but here's what I know (and, as a point of interest, I actually got to look
at a Moog synthesizer when they first came out -- I think it was around '68
or '69).
A Moog synth, as I understand it, is a huge collection of oscillators that
can each be individually tuned and configured to set up about any sort of
variation on a sine wave that one could imagine. Frequency, phasing,
flanging... all could be altered at will on every single oscillator.
Once the oscillators were set up, they were patched through a sequencer
and outputted in the desired pattern. It was pretty wild stuff; your
average patch bay looked a lot like an old-style cord-and-plug telephone
switchboard.
OK, Moog folk... how did I do? Considering that this knowledge is based on
barely-remembered impressions from when I was 8 or 9.
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7:49 a.m.
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Bruce Lane wrote:
A Moog synth, as I understand it, is a huge
collection of oscillators that
can each be individually tuned and configured to set up about any sort of
variation on a sine wave that one could imagine. Frequency, phasing,
flanging... all could be altered at will on every single oscillator.
I'm a software weenie, so caveat emptor: analog synths typically give you
a few sources such as sine wave, square wave, saw tooth, and white noise,
some VCO's to modify amplitude and frequency, ADSR (attack, delay,
sustain, rlease) filters, and other gizmos. They're basically analog
computers to which somebody attached a speaker. Op-Amps, which are used a
lot in music, were originally designed for analog computers (thus the
name, operational amplifiers).
-- Doug
7:35 a.m.
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I've recently gotten the necessary hardware and
software together to
transfer Records (16, 33, 45, and 78) to CD. As part of this I was digging
through my parents Record collection and found a record that is Moog music.
It was something I was looking for, as it was so unusual that I remember
when my dad brought it home over 20 years ago.
Anyway I was wondering if anyone knows anything about what kind of hardware
was used for this?
Just a guess: Moog synthesizers :-) Classic analog synths.
-- Doug
8:29 a.m.
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I've recently gotten the necessary hardware and
software together to
transfer Records (16, 33, 45, and 78) to CD. As part of this I was digging
through my parents Record collection and found a record that is Moog music.
It was something I was looking for, as it was so unusual that I remember
when my dad brought it home over 20 years ago.
Anyway I was wondering if anyone knows anything about what kind of hardware
was used for this?
You might try asking Bob Moog himself. He is running a company now that
manufactures theremins. I believe that his website is at
http://www.bigbriar.com.
rob
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