Moog’s Musical Eatery, a long out of print cookbook from 1978, is now available on Apple Books.
The cookbook, written in 1978 by Shirleigh Moog, first wife of synthesizer pioneer Bob Moog, is a glimpse into the early days of synthesis.
Back then, many musicians would make pilgrimages to the Moog factory, to learn about synthesis and synthesizers. And when they did, they would often end up at the Moog house, and being fed by Shirleigh Moog.
The cookbook features the recipes that she cooked for these musicians, including Vladimir Ussachevsky, Wendy Carlos, Keith Emerson, Patrick Moraz, John Cage, John Eaton, Joel Chadabe, Herb Deutsch, and Richard Teitelbaum. And it not only features individual recipes, but her plans for hosting up to 100 people.
For more history about the cookbook, see Moog’s Musical Eatery feature at Our State magazine. Moog’s Musical Eatery is now available as an Apple Book for $9.99. The hardcover is also available via Amazon site.
OCTACHRON, an iOS MIDI Drum Sequencer, has been updated to version 2.0.
OCTACHRON features 16 tracks of 1-32 steps, pattern chaining, parameter locks and more.
New in OCTACHRON 2.0:
iPhone Support with compact and comfort view. Enjoy the full functionality of OCTACHRON now also on your iPhone. Standalone or in your favorite iOS DAW. Choose between a compact stable grid or comfortably sized buttons with scrolling. Concentrate on the grid or blend in your modulation bar.
Overhauled MIDI mapping preset system now supports creation, sharing and importing of custom MIDI mapping presets. Create and save your own MIDI mapping presets and share them with the community via our custom MIDI mapping format.
OCTACHRON is now compatible with iPad, iPhone, M Macs and Apple Vision Pro.
Features:
Standalone or AUv3 MIDI plugin
Works inside AUM, Cubasis, Logic Pro, Beatmaker, ApeMatrix, Nanostudio and other hosts compatible with MIDI AudioUnit (Not GarageBand)
Optimized for drums but also fun for basic melody lines
OCTACHRON is specialized in in depth MIDI sequencing and does not create any sounds of its own.
1-32 steps with flexible clock divider and custom time signatures
Up to 16 mutable tracks with flexible length
Up to 8 chainable patterns (song mode)
Swing with flexible swing grid
Save and restore your presets
Parameter lock for velocity, trigger probability, trigger condition, ratcheting and MIDI CC Modulation
Ahead of Superbooth 2024, Moon Modular has introduced two new Moog format filter modules, inspired by modules from the West and East.
The first module, the M518 Voltage Controlled Low Pass Gate, is inspired the classic Don Buchla Low Pass Gate design, part of his Series 200 modular system from around 1970, and a core part of ‘West Coast’ synthesis.
The Moon 518 module features a switchable combination of a low pass filter circuit with voltage controllable cutoff frequency and a VCA (here called “Gate”). Both functions work separately or in combination.
The filter resonance is also voltage controllable. The low pass filter slope is 12 dB/oct.
The Moog M509 features a switchable band pass/low pass filter, with voltage-controllable cutoff frequency, and as an enhancement of the original voltage-controlled regeneration. The filter slope in low pass mode is 12 dB/oct, in band pass mode 6 dB/oct.
The two modules expand Moon’s filter lineup to a total of 6 modules, plus their Modular Six-Band Voltage Controlled Filter Bank.
Both modules are expected to be available by the end of April 2024, priced at €269 (incl. the German VAT of 19%) or €217.89 export price. Find out details on the Moon Modular website.
Back then, many musicians would make pilgrimages to the Moog factory, to learn about synthesis and synthesizers. And when they did, they would often end up at the Moog house, and being fed by Shirleigh Moog.
