The Moog One is a beautiful chunk of an instrument. Moog have finally revealed the successor to the MemoryMoog – the hugely polyphonic Moog One. I didn’t get to any of the seminars – i was just there for the gear and the people. Lots of lovely people came and said hello which was fabulous – thanks! The crowd is still overwhelmingly white male but there was a bit more diversity and a larger proportion of women running stands. But it was a super day – it has such a great vibe, cool, relaxed, fun nothing like any other trade or gear show i’ve been to. Turns out that when i said they were going to lend me one for review i completely imagined it.
Nina from Transistor Sound Labs gave me a demo of their cool new Stepper drums prototype, and i got a run through with the analogue solutions Generator. Tried the Modal Sculpt – it was a bit weird – made a fabulous drone on the Studio Electronics Boom Star – had a go on the Grandmother which was pretty sweet and the Erica Synths Techno system which does exactly what it says on the tin. I wasn’t bowled over by anything new and exciting this year but I did get the opportunity to have a fiddle with a number of things. Everyone was there – the big names like Korg, Yamaha, Roland, Arturia and Moog but also the little names and individuals like Future Sound Systems, Soulsby, Expert Sleepers, Erica Synths and loads more. It’s a synth show held up in Sheffield and hosted by Sound On Sound magzine. So it’s become a bit of a pilgrimage for me.
It was the place only 2 years ago that i first grasped the concept of Eurorack and fell headfirst down the modular rabbit hole.
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