$600 for the Moog unit built in Taiwan…..what was the acquisition for? It clearly wasn’t to reduce cost to the consumer or to expand access to more people. I bought the Mother32 and the Subharmonicon at the $600ish price point and partially excused it because of the fact they were built in Asheville. This unit has a filter bank and one VCO lol. It’s a shame……..let’s hope for a better future.

Love the vest!!!

One thing I've found with mine that really helps vocoder intelligibility is adding a little inline mixer to mix the Program output with the VCA output, that way you can add just a touch of your original voice to the vocoded signal. I use a 'Splix' but there are a lot of other possibilities. Good review though, I like mine but that's because I have a ton of gear to use it with. This is definitely not for beginners or people who just want to sound like a robot!

I hope behringer makes a version,, $600 for something not made in usa by a small company by hand is ridiculous, especially when I got my minibrute 2 new for $350

Those overlays bring back memories. The Micromoog my parents bought for me in 1975 had transparent plastic ones with yellow silkscreen if I recall.

Thanks for the video. I do have to agree with others that the complaints that it’s not great by itself is somewhat unfair though. It’s an analog vocoder and filter bank - of course you need other instruments. If you bought a standalone filter (eurorack or otherwise), would you complain that you need other instruments? You could have tried it with your other gear to show off some of the features? (Hope that will come in part 2) Also the fact that it doesn’t come with a microphone - that is clear when you buy it. Also a relatively decent diaphragm gooseneck mic costs about €100, so the price would be even higher if they included it and half the users wouldn’t need one. On cost - it’s a resonant filter bank - those take a lot to make and therefore have an appropriate cost. Agree that I’m also disappointed that assembly has moved and the whole fallout from the takeover - but that doesn’t mean it only costs $20 to make it and the rest is profit. The profit margin is probably still super thin. This is also probably one of the cheapest analog vocoders out there. Looking forward to part 2 though! 🙂

You complained about them not including a microphone or another instrument, saying you couldn't use most of the included patches because of that. But, you're talking into a microphone, in front of a bunch of other instruments.

lol this is a niche-ass synth at a pretty damn affordable price. There are straight filter banks in Eurorack that cost more and don’t have a power supply, VCO, modulation sources, etc. I hate that they closed the Asheville factory, too, but this is pretty cheap, especially with inflation and the tariffs nowadays.

From the sound demos I've heard, it can do really cool sounds (although the vocoder sounds very incomprehensible), but it's really just a fancy effects pedal in a eurorack case. It can do faaaar less than the other Moog semi-modulars, so putting them at the same price of 600$ feels really greedy, especially since they moved production to Taiwan. I don't really see myself getting one of these, unless a used one comes by for a considerably lower price.

2:00 Is that thing even RoHS compliant? Moog is not allowed to sell this in the EU when it contains led!

Good to hear it's made in Taiwan vs PRC.

I pass on this one but it’s nice to see Moog trying again 🤷‍♂️

If you like demoing items by themselves can you please do one on the vongon replay?

Hello. About your comment at @2:47. I owned a Moog Subsequent 25 that I bought brand new. It was made in the USA. It didn't stand flat on a surface, either.😐

I still use my microkorg as a vocoder. I also run my guitar and other synths as a carrier trough it

What does the manual look like? It’s not in moogs website yet… 😮

They want $899CAN for these at Long and Mcquade. The U.S. dollar is a fair bit higher the Canadian dollar , but this works out for $660 U.S. dollars.

Pew Pew Pew 😆

The $600 price tag for something made overseas is a bit much. Assembly in a factory on a production line normally brings price tags down it never keeps prices the same, and if it does, you shouldn't by it.

It's 700 euro in Europe ( Thomann), thanks for your honesty, definitely Moog is dead.

I wouldn't take the Spectravox to a shit fight.

I miss my Voyager but I’m done with Moog. Half of the price for the Spectravox is the Moog name. Sad to see a once great innovator become so gimmicky.

I like that they're at least trying to do something different, but this just doesn't interest me personally. Then again, I guess this is simply supposed to be a part of the growing Moog Sound Studio and expects you to already have the other models. Lacking a microphone is still an odd choice, though.

Not sitting flat seems bad right off. No way is it worth the same price as the other sound studio synths assembled in the us. I wont be adding this to my moog collection. Too many other great companies to support out there.

Not sure one can get an impression of a spectral processor without putting audio through it.

I’m missing the patch cables in mine.

Can’t wait for mine. Love the exploration aspect of it. You getting the behringer gooseneck microphone? 😅

Im excited for when theres a bunch for $250 on reverb in a month

Great review brother. I know u are a huge moog fan. Appreciate the honest take.

I think it’s too expensive still. Sounds amazing Wait until Behringer clones it it’ll probably be $299

"it doesn't have a microphone"??

Oh wow....this is kind of worse than we feared.

well dam

At least it's not fro china , Taiwanese people have a pride in their work

Looking good! Sounding good! ❤

Hard pass on the Cancer and Lead poisoning…😳

I mean it does a lot. Music equipment is expensive. Anyone collecting eurorack modules knows that. I think once you’ve explored all the possibilities you might come around on it. But it’s obviously not for everyone. Unless you have a real use for a device, don’t buy it. It wasn’t a secret that a big chunk of its use is as a processor for other sources and that it didn’t come with a microphone. Correct me if I’m wrong..most gear with an xlr input doesn’t come with a microphone.

Pretty obvious why they released this before the Labyrintth - because probably no one would have grabbed this first. marketing! I knew what to expect and I am pleased with it, but come on moog, SHOW US THE LABYRINTH ! right?

Ya bro. My new guitar pedal didn’t even come with a guitar. Must be because it was made in Taiwan.

Lets face it, the vocoder is not all that. It sounfs flat and lifeless. The filter bank is something we've already seen and can even be had as a Behringer Clone (from thoer system 55). Then ther is the price... There is nothing new here and the price is not warrentes. This is for completists only. I'll pick mine up used in two to three years at 399-

People complaining about the cost and where it’s manufactured (btw, it’s being assembled now where the boards were ALWAYS made) need to look at how much a Filter Bank cost. The ones that are cheaper than this are fixed filter banks with less filters. The ones that cost more than this have more bands but also tend to not shift the frequencies nor have a built in oscillator. It’s very clear some of y’all have no idea what type of product this is and how much competing products cost lol. $600 is actually very reasonable when there are similar things to this going for $1000 in eurorack.

I’m sorry this is why these companies go out of business. It’s has no meaning for the user market.

Hate it when my guitar pedals don’t come with guitars

Why don't you stop talking so much, and hook something else up to it? You complain about a Filterbank not doing much on its own lol. There's only a few actual audio demos up on KZfaq, you could've actually provided cool content people are clearly hungry for and instead yapped for 6 minutes with barely a demo.