Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Bob Moog - In Memoriam
There are not many people who have succeeded in creating new musical instruments that have gained wide usage but Bob Moog was one of those.
His synthesizer achieved a mythic reputation for people of my generation with the beach boys and Emerson Lake and Palmer who I heard live in concert. It was on leaning of the existence of a realistic software emulation of this instrument that led to the beginning of this enterprise. My first experiments were with ELP midi files which I found worked well with the moog and a Hammond organ emulation.
The marimba we have used on many of our tracks is a Moog emulation but the Mega Moog on Gounod's Marionette's Funeral March is a particularly appropriate example of how effective it can be. You could also try the HiFi streaming sample of Bach's Fugue in D minor to hear it at full power.
His synthesizer achieved a mythic reputation for people of my generation with the beach boys and Emerson Lake and Palmer who I heard live in concert. It was on leaning of the existence of a realistic software emulation of this instrument that led to the beginning of this enterprise. My first experiments were with ELP midi files which I found worked well with the moog and a Hammond organ emulation.
The marimba we have used on many of our tracks is a Moog emulation but the Mega Moog on Gounod's Marionette's Funeral March is a particularly appropriate example of how effective it can be. You could also try the HiFi streaming sample of Bach's Fugue in D minor to hear it at full power.
