Subj : Hey Rob...
To   : Digital Man
From : Ille Homine Albe
Date : Sun Aug 19 2007 12:13 pm

  Re: Hey Rob...
  By: Digital Man to Ille Homine Albe on Sun Aug 19 2007 11:07 am

 >  > So right now you have... two ELP CDs...?
 > 
 > Yeah, they're getting a lot of use! :-)

Very cool.  I'm probably going to have to learn some of Emerson's Hammond work
before we jam, huh?  :|_

Lots of sheet music used to be available, but not anymore.  I should have
snagged it.  That stuff is really beyond me to pick up by ear, most of it.

 >  >  > Aren't the SE devices related to Moog somehow?
 >  >
 >  > They're both analog synthesizers.  The SE-1X is similar in configuration 
 >  > Minimoog: 3 oscillators, 1 voice.  But it has no keyboard, four ADSR enve
 >  > generators (Minimoog has 3 ADR), 3 LFOs (Minimoog has none, but you can u
 >  > oscillator 3 as an LFO), and it's programmable.
 >  >
 >  > The Omega 8 is unlike anything Moog produced, more like the Oberheim 4-vo
 >  > except with 8 voices, 2 VCOs per voice, 3 ADSR envelopes, 2 LFOs.  And...
 >  > programmable.  Also, it kills.
 > 
 > Ah. I thought I remembered you saying that the SE devices shared some herita
 > with the Moog (or maybe it was Oberheim). <shrug>

Maybe I referred to it as a "Minimoog clone?"  Because it's more similar than
different, the differences being improvements, except the lack of a keyboard. 
But every monophonic synth is indebted to Moog for that unit in that it was
the first of its kind.  And it was the most popular: they made 12,000 of them.

The new Minimoog has improvements, too, but it's about $3000; an Omega 4-voice
is about $3200.

Here's the SE-1X:

http://www.studioelectronics.com/images/popup/popup_WeddingDayBlues_SE-1X.jpg

Here's the old Minimoog:

http://www.bernhard-doering.de/Synthi-Museum/Museums-Guide/Moog/Mini-Moog/Minim
oog-front.jpg

And the new Minimoog:

http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/0/1/1/289011.jpg

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