Moog Model D

[Andrew Tarpinian]

I know the Internet is abound with love and hate on the reissue. But I just have to say as someone who loves synthesizers if you have never played a model d or one of the Moog modulars you really owe it to yourself to try it. 

It really was a wow moment. It was like all the concepts of synthesis that I've learned just came around full circle for me. Like, oh THIS is what it's supposed to sound like. Not that other synthesizers are less worthy, not at all, but for instance the way the oscillator waves bounce off each other when detuned, the fucking filter, I've never heard anything like this in person, it just checks the boxes for me on an emotional level. I felt it in my sub37 but this went beyond. 

Will some of that technical audio magic get lost in a mix? sure. But for me the inspiration you get interacting with the instrument in making the performance that is being recorded, helps make the performance what it is. At least personally I know I wouldn't get that same inspiration from a plugin and a controller. 

So that's why I bought #10. 

I had my friend (who actually got me into making music but doesn't make stuff anymore) try the model 15 after he was playing with the minilogue, jdxi etc... His reaction was "how come this sounds so big and those sound so small?..." :)