Moog and Google Doodle

Subject: Moog and Google Doodle
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 23 May 12 - 10:39 AM

A fasinateing toy...this is a good place to start with the instructions on the bottom of the page.

Yes you can save the four tracks.


Sincerely,
Gargoyle

www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404767,00.asp

Subject: RE: Moog and Google Doodle
From: KHNic
Date: 23 May 12 - 11:03 AM

I'd forgotten what fun a Moog was.

Subject: RE: Moog and Google Doodle
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 23 May 12 - 11:06 AM

so how to easily capture it for longer term offline playing about with ???

Subject: RE: Moog and Google Doodle
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 23 May 12 - 11:33 AM

On the basis that the Pac-Man doodle is still available to play now, I imagine the Moog one will stay available.

Subject: RE: Moog and Google Doodle
From: Highlandman
Date: 23 May 12 - 02:33 PM

Something about my work computer breaks up the audio. :-((
I was already familiar with the big modular Moogs (being an old prog rock guy from the start) but when I got loaned a MiniMoog to play in 1972 I was in heaven.
There are some VST software synths you can get that emulate analog instruments like the Mini. With a VST host program on your computer and a midi interface to your keyboard it's almost as good as having a Tardis.
-Glenn
PS is this folk?

Subject: RE: Moog and Google Doodle
From: Bernard
Date: 23 May 12 - 02:51 PM

Glenn, it's music - which is what Mudcat is about!! ;o)

I've got an original vinyl LP of Perrey and Kingsley's 'Spotlight on the Moog' - which also features a Jenny Ondioline... dates back to 1971.

Subject: RE: Moog and Google Doodle
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 23 May 12 - 02:58 PM

"PS is this folk?"

absolutely !!!

The Mini Moog is a vintage old outdated obsolete technology instrument;
it has nice looking traditional wood panels;
and more to the point, is prone to tuning stability problems....

Subject: RE: Moog and Google Doodle
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 May 12 - 05:53 PM

Sure, it's folk! I just played "Whiskey Before Breakfast" on it.

Subject: RE: Moog and Google Doodle
From: GUEST,999
Date: 23 May 12 - 05:57 PM

No offense, BWL, but I had whiskey before breakfast and then played it. Waaaaaaay cool.

Subject: RE: Moog and Google Doodle
From: open mike
Date: 24 May 12 - 11:33 AM

Can this be found anywhere today?

Subject: RE: Moog and Google Doodle
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 24 May 12 - 02:19 PM

It's still available here:

www.google.com/doodles/robert-moogs-78th-birthday

Subject: RE: Moog and Google Doodle
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 May 12 - 02:52 PM

Babysat for the Moogs back in the late 60s. Nice people. Beautiful home.

Drove the office crazy yesterday playing the Marine Hymn via synthesizer. heh heh

Subject: RE: Moog and Google Doodle
From: Highlandman
Date: 24 May 12 - 03:07 PM

My favorite Moog story:

Some pals and I went to the apartment of a bass-playing buddy who had got his hands on a 3-rack modular Moog. The big boy.

He showed us how he had been playing around with subsonics, putting his bass cabinet on a table and fiddling with the LFO frequency until the table started walking across the kitchen. A minor change of frequency made it walk back the other way. More hours (adult beverage-assisted of course) finding all the cool things we could do with it besides music. Blowing out matches, making the hamster wheel spin by itself, etc.

Fast forward to the inevitable knock on the door by the two cute girls who lived below. They had been wondering what was making the light bulbs in their apartment explode, pictures fall off the wall, fridge open and close, and all the while they never heard a sound. Then they remembered the mad scientist who lived upstairs....

Cheers
-Glenn