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Re: New Product preview at the Ethermusic festival
Luca,
I'm not sure when the "official" roll out date is. As I mentioned
before, it appears to be quite an innovative leap for the guitar and I
look forward to hearing the impressions of you and others on the list
as you get become acquainted with the Moog Guitar.
-- Kevin
Quoting Luca Formentini <luca@unguitar.com>:
> Hi Kevin,
> this is probably going to be the only reason to make me consider
> another guitar...
> very interesting info, thank you very much for it.
>
> I just don't see any chance to know/see/hear something more than the
> bouncing, few informations unofficially hitting the net.
> Any chance to see an official move by moog ?
>
> my best,
> luca
>
> www.unguitar.com
>
> kkissinger@kevinkissinger.com wrote:
>
>> Hello to all!
>>
>> I just returned from the Ethermusic Festival, sponsered by Moog
>> Music, in Asheville, NC.
>>
>> Prior to my set on Thursday night, Jason Danillo from Moog Music
>> expertly demo'd a new product from Moog Music that is simply
>> called: "The Moog Guitar".
>>
>> I am not a guitarist myself however I was very impressed with what
>> I learned and heard about this product. I run the risk of
>> sounding like a "salesperson" however I want to share with you what
>> I learned and heard regarding the Moog Guitar.
>>
>> My first impression of this instrument is that it was an electric
>> guitar with built in (software driven) fx in the body of the
>> guitar. And I would add, super CLEAN fx. And the infinite
>> sustain, for example, was INFINITE with no noise, glitches, etc.
>> However, my guess about the theory of operation was mistaken.
>>
>> The guitar utilizes built-in ebows -- I'm not sure how many are
>> built into the guitar however there is a least one per string. As
>> many readers here know, the ebow imparts energy to a string to
>> set it into vibration and keep it vibrating forever. The
>> engineers at Moog took things to another level -- for ebow
>> technology can do the opposite: it can be used to remove energy
>> from a string, too.
>>
>> Each string is independently settable -- some can sustain, others
>> can sound in the normal (unsustained manner), others can produce a
>> staccatto pluck -- in fact, on of the sounds is a strum followed
>> by a bow. This is all user-settable. Jason strummed a chord and
>> as the chord died down a "bowed string chorus" came up -- as if an
>> entire string section was doubling Jason's guitar part.
>>
>> My first thought was: Ohhh... my looping friends would LOVE this.
>> And the tone was really clean. During Jason's demo, he mentioned
>> that some people can't believe that this is all being done on the
>> strings until he unplugs the guitar and folks listen to the
>> strings themselves.
>>
>> I look forward to hearing the "buzz" about this product among the
>> looping community as well as the theremin community (which includes
>> many guitarists and loopers).
>>
>> While ebows have been around for awhile, this new product takes
>> things to another level.
>>
>> Best wishes to Moog Music. May the new Moog Guitar inspire many
>> musicians and be another success story for Moog Music.
>>
>> All the best to one and all.
>>
>> -- Kevin
>>
>>
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