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- The Moog Memorymoog is revered as one of the best classic big analog poly synths of the 80s. Powerful, delicate, but also with a reputation of being very unreliable.
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A 6-voice VCO synth with 3 oscillators per voice. Analog signal chain throughout, but with digital control over parameters. It was the last synth from Moog before they went out of business.
Made from about 1982 to 1985. After the introduction of MIDI Moog updated the Memorymoog to the Memorymoog PLUS which added MIDI and a poly/mono sequencer.
00:02 Memorymoog Demo song
01:00 Introduction
02:06 The features
06:59 The sequencer
08:42 CV & Gate Sequencer out
11:43 Syncing to external clock
12:55 Arpeggiator
13:50 Sound examples
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Growing up I listened to so much synth-pop and it's only natural that my own music takes inspiration from many of the acts I loved back then. I still love them and listen to them!
Howard Jones, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Erasure, Thompson Twins, Tears for Fears, The Human League, Propaganda. FGTH, Ultravox, OMD, Eurythmics, Duran Duran, Giorgio Moroder, Jean Michel Jarre, Jan Hammer, Alphaville, A-ha as well as loads of artists doing what is now called Italo Disco. And many more great acts like Nik Kershaw, Spandau Ballet, Wham, Dire Straits ++
I reckon the MemoryMoog is the best synth they ever made. What an absolute beast.
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Debatable; I bought the last few units from Moog. The sound u can love or dislike. Plus mechanical issues sometimes, because they hurriedly rushed it into production
At least the way he's patching it in this video, it doesn't really sound like a Moog to me. Nice, though.
@@hardcorehouseAfter listening to FATBACK’s “Is this the Future”? Album from 1983 over 100 times, i cannot deny that i love the sound of the MM.
@@hardcorehouseso then why is it debatable? lol
Spent my life savings at the time on a new Memorymoog ($2700 U.S.) and DW8000 ($forgot). Upgraded it to a "plus" myself. Was reliable even though the inside was spaghetti of wires.
Gigged with it for two years. Then it was stolen. Nice demo, brings back memories of hours of tweaking. I have a recording of an all Memorymoog song I wrote with RX-11 drums if you are interested. Thanks for the content sir. R
The Cherry Audio memory moog vst is quite good and cheap.
Cheers :D
STOLEN???... i would die.
I am so sorry. I had a synth stolen once as well. Not the MM but still a painful moment that still stings today.
It changed the course of my life, but I got over it. I like my newer syths better anyway.
Hope you found something to fill the void. Best wishes. R
Amazing how modern and vintage it can sound at the same time. A nice allrounder.
Probably the best online demo of the Memorymoog. Great job! Not one of my favorites, but probably the final MEGASYNTH of the silver age.
Many thanks!
the best sounding Moog ever made!!!
Debatable
Such an amazing synthesizer, really extreme beautiful sounding, but so fragile. I’m happy that you showed it to us
Cheers
*Eargasm at **1:38* Thx for showing the beautiful analog synth that most of old ones can never reach as the unique MemoryMoog
Thanks!
Beautifull Demo as always Espen. I had the chance to play one back in 1986 in a synthesizer shop im Germany. It blew me away, but was prohibitively expensive for me back then. One of my favorite bands "Saga" used it a lot, they had at last three of those monsters on stage at "Rock am Ring" 1985.
Thanks Jack!
Jim Gilmour, Michael Sadler, love Saga!
This really is one of the biggest analog poly synths ever made! The soundtrack of Miami Vice wouldn't sound nearly as good without it. Great video showcasing this icon, Espen!
Memorymoog should be treated on par with Prophet.
Thanks Luka!
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@@retro-dademusic6403 I’ve already seen your amazing Jan Hammer covers. They’re very impressive!
@@LukaRay Awesome! Thanks! 😎
Wow, it sounds amazing. Great video and demo of this fantastic machine!
Cheers!
Had one of these things for years,had to sell it.Never got over the loss!
Superb demo Espen.
Great insight into the sequencer etc
Many thanks man!
Great stuff Espen! That started my day off perfectly. I would love to get my hands on one of these great synths. Cheers!
Cheers Andy!
Excellent.
The Lord of The Moog running on a blade in Miami.
All classic powaa!
Cheers :D
I got an early LAMM without sequencer. It is very reliable, mostly the keys want to be played regularly for preventing corroded key contacts.
For basslines I recommend to layer the Memory Moog with a Behringer Model D via MIDI for some nice extra "oomph" in the lowest frequency range.
Sure with a midified "real" Mini Moog it might be an even "classier" pairing, but I don´t have that one.
So, only thing I can say, it blends and sounds gorgeous in conjunction with a Model D.
Just much easier for Me to get the Minimoog sound into My Daw is Minimoog VST.
@@HOLLASOUNDS So, if "Minimoog VST" sports the same sonic subbass characteristics as one of the hardware instruments, then I encourage you to double it with a Memorymoog bass sound. There is also a software version from Cherry Audio, the "Memorymode".
Have fun!
@@marcofioravanti4176 I got the Aturia Mini V for free, not sure why. It's great and I can loud more then one into a DAW.
@@HOLLASOUNDS Great!
The Memorymoog has always haunted me. I passed on one in 2013 to buy a Jupiter-8 for $1000 more. SynthMania then posted a blind test with five Jupiter-8 patches and five Memorymoog patches. One set sounded much thicker and more punchy, I preferred that set and guessed they were JP, and was dead wrong. Fast forward to this year, I took my DSX to a tech who also worked on some of SynthMania's gear, and the tech owned a Memorymoog I had the opportunity to play for a few moments. It truly is the heavyweight champion of analog.
My Navation Peak has digital Oscillators and Analog filters, sounds great to Me and can easily make classic Moog sounds.
Correction on the timeline. SynthMania posted the JP/MM test in February 2013. I got my JP-8 in the summer of 2013.
@@100DollarHeadache Or I can make Moog sounds with Aturia mini V.
Wow was blessed to have 2 MMs in my life I used to gig w/ one and w/ a flight case , I had a triple A frame stand along w/ a Jupiter 6 / ensoniqs EPS samp. My rack had a Garfield dr.click for the arpeggios all synced to a yamahaQX-1 8trk seq damn I still trip out how I moved all this from gig to gig from west to east in the u.s circa 80s/90s for the love of playin live 3 of us Aqua Temple breakbeat ambient some Drum/bass surprisingly the moog held up well the Jupiter better and this hurts I got them for about 300 bucks , thanks for such a wonderful understanding of this classic , for those who haven’t played one, you can feel the power in your fingertips when playin this instrument literally!
Cool setup and story, thanks for sharing. Cheers :)
Also had two of these and used them primarily as lead synths and a pad here and there. The keyboards contacts failed often. Loved how you could choose how many voices to play in mono mode. I could get very expressive solos ala Keith Emerson. Too expensive and also the fan noise was a bit annoying for studio use.
the sound is so good !
Excellent video as always 👍 LOTR and Miami Vice really gave me goosebumps 😊
Thanks!
it`s so wonderful sound!
Wow, a beautiful Memorymoog in working order. How rare.
Mine spends much of its time hospitalized at the tech's. Now all the LEDs light up and flicker like a Christmas tree illumination. I wonder what's wrong with it this time...
Most units are temperamental. ;-)
Amazing! The MMoog is a legend!
A very nice synth indeed.
1982 ... I was 22 year old student then. A dream machine but I knew it would always be so, pricewise.
Today I'm glad: Even if I had the 10 grand I would have been very disappointed and angry to get an unreliable machine for this amount of money and this up-marketed huge brand-name.
It sounds great, but the Cherry Audio Memorymode for 40 bugs is good enough for me 😛
Long time viewer great job!
Cheers!
I should have bought one when they were around 6K 10 years ago. Loved the Hammer Miami vice sound
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Oooh Crockett's Theme!!! Sounds lovely on the Memorymoog
WHAT A BEAUT!
If Moog had just reissued this instead of the Moog One they would have got my money.
That was some tasty playing at 14:44. I've love to hear it expanded on 😊
Thanks! My album is still being worked on. ;-)
Lovely Espen
Great job, I've never actually heard a good demo of this synth so thanks. I always wondered what synths Air had used on Pocket Symphony and I did hear it might have been a MemoryMoog but I'm not sure. It has some very good deep sounds and going by this demo it sounds like it could have been one.
Many thanks! :)
A beautiful instrument.
18:20 For music at least, this was, without any serious competitors, the greatest TV series of all time.
I wish Moog Music would do for this what they did with the Model D Reissue, but with modern reliability. Keep it six voices, but maybe have the option of a split/layer.
I had a chance to listen to a Model D reissue and a vintage Model D side by side in person over headphones and it was a day and night difference for me. One of them brought me to tears, because it sounded so beautiful. And no, it wasn‘t because of analog circuit tolerances. One of them had a beautiful soul, and I could feel that it went through a lot. The other one was... quite nice sounding.
Спасибо вам, очень красивое звучание!
18:20 I remember that there was a similar sounding "Crocket's Theme" patch available for the Yamaha DX7.
First time I purchased a full size poly synth 1983 this was one of the choices the other was the Roland JP6 , I went with the Roland at the time I think they where both around the same price, I think I recall I played around $3300.00 AU back then.
IMHO alway sweeter sounding than the Jupiter 8. I had one that was falling apart in 1991. But when it worked, it was bliss.
It would have been nice if the Memorymoog had a variable tracking control for Oscillator 3, so that in low frequency mode, the pitch could be tracked to double in frequency over 4 octaves instead of every octave. That would make a better modulation source for Pulse with modulation of Oscillators 1 and 2 for a lush string pad across the entire keyboard.
How 80s can MemoryMoog and Espen be? Espen @ 13:55: Yes.
Hi there and thanks for the video! I have one question and i must warn that i barely know anything about synths...that said, can you tell whats happening at 13.20? Its just the arp or the hold is on? And if you can tell us the arp setting would be nice :)
All the best
Yes, it's the arp in "hold" mode. I made this on the fly and I cannot remember what the settings were. Cheers
@@EspenKraft thank you for the information! I achieved a similar sound with VSTs, using the ableton stock arpeggiator (in chord mode and hold enabled) and the arturia minimoog (in polyphonic mode). I just dont know how to get that specific filter sweep but ill try some stuff :) cheers
Beautiful!!!
Cheers!
Oh my gosh that sounds fantastic! Would someone please start dropping super valuable vintage synthesizers on my doorstep to play with. Please. A Jupiter 8, a Matrix 12 and now a MemoryMoog. Yikes. So which is your favorite? Who reigns supreme as the King of the 80s Analogs?
Most vintage analog VCO synth for the buck would be the Roland MKS-80.
Nice Moog solo brass.
Man this synth sounds so good. It’s sad the DX7 killed synths like this. The world back then should have been big enough for both. Interesting how much this looks like a Moog One, at least superficially. I hadn’t thought about it before but perhaps the Moog One is the successor to the PolyMoog.
I mentioned above.. i agree... I want the one to look like a memory... that digital screen is absolutely disgusting... It makes me want to vomit, and is the only thing stopping from buying it.. though I may, not sure.
@@ineedstuff8286 Well, it's kinda hard to build an analog alphanumeric display.
@@RadicalCaveman nah dude i know… im not sure why i was soo heated about that that day. I just love the knobs of analog vs up and down buttons.
Is that LFO triggering the pulse attack on the patch at 16:50? Also... can the arpeggiator be saved as part of a patch? Nice tribute to Jan Hammer at 18:20 by the way!
Correct. I can't remember if the arp is part of the patch actually. I only had this on loan. It's back with the owner now. Cheers
Amazing ( but buggy!) & to me king of the analogues. Always loved,its look as well🥰 ( which is why I don’t understand this was forgotten with the ugly Moog one ). This is top of my list to hope an affordable cloned version will come along one day.....
Nice to have
13:59 that sounds just amazing. It's not just the filter, the oscillators have that Mini-strength.
The oscillators are not the same as the minimoog’s.
Yeah I had one myself in 1992 ...
Sadly it never work right, the tuning going well but one voice only had like a phase modulation on it mostly time doing so zet zet zet zet zet , like it would modulate extrem narrow pulse just on a peak. Difficult to describe it..
Finally I could give back then to the one I bought it , a friend that time doing repair of old mostly moog things.. But also he told me later he never could fix it...
And to say the price then was for the Memorymoog 3000.- swiss franks ( thats also like 3000 Euros bit less )
I had also my Minimoog ( 2000 .- then ) from him then was many years quite happy with it..
But the Memorymoog was no lucky story for me... But finally well know even in the book vintage synthesizers stands from the Author : BE PREPARED IF YOU OWN A MEMORYMOOG THERE WILL BE THE ONE AND OTHER SERVICE REPAIR CALCULATE THAT IN IF YOU WANT ONE... haha
But it is quite a interesting synth sure, the 3 OSC topic is another level in synths as only 2, I like my Summit does that same also my Hydrasynth gives this direction and finally the 2600 is also 3 OSC based...
Make me want to make me music with these classic instruments.
a palate cleanser for in between superbooth vids? To compare the new stuff too? Unfair!
As always very nice video and performance 👍👍👍 Greetings 😎
The piece 13:53 sounds so much like the one from the Blade Runner movie,
The one starting at 18:21 reminds me of the famous piece by Jan Hammer,
all presentation very nice ✨
It IS the Blade Runner opening theme. ;-)
can you do more videos about Memorymoog? Share some cool patches or tips?
I don't have it any more so that's not possible.
@@EspenKraft oh my you sold it..? Why~~~ Ok….
No, it was never mine. I had borrowed it from a friend.
Your mic/vocal processing sounds too crispy in my stream. Extra sibillance even where it shouldn't be happening? The synth comes thru nicely.
My videos are not optimized for laptops and mobile phones. They're optimized for full range speakers. And CRT monitors. ;-)
That rare occasion where you play a synth I actually have 😎 did you play 18:21 just for me?
First video clip I shot. ;-)
@@EspenKraft Well done, Sir 😎
my question is, can a external synth control the memorymoog via CV Gate. I know on the back of my memorymoog it says External Synth Out, but can it be a External Synth in
No, there is no CV/Gate IN on a factory Memorymoog. There might be some mods out there though.
Btw. 80s: I Love your latest TAL Sampler preset pack Matrix 12!
Thanks man!
At last!
So, it is 1984-ish, I am 17 and I have $900 of my hard-earned money to spend. Before me is a new Korg Poly 61 and a used Memory Moog. Same price. I have a big choice to make. Exciting new DCO's or old school analog. Hmmm....I chose the Korg. Who knew what it would worth in 2022? :)
We've all done things.... the Poly-61 is great though.
I have MM too, and please help me, master!
1. I have kinda noise that keep beeping synced with modulation rate, don’t you hear from your MM too?
It is really bugging me,,, I don’t know how to stop it…..
Im not a native english speaker, so can’t expalin well but, in modulation/sequencer section, rate speed sound - like a beeping sound, ( even though I don’t play any)…
Do you know how to stop it or kill it?
Even if I set the rate speed to zero ,,,
It really slowly keep beeping… you know what I mean…?
2. When you record sequencer, I think there must be metronome sound, but I can’t hear metronome sound when I record,,,
Do you know how to fix it?
Cheers, looking forward to your help! Subscribed!!!
The CLICK output is the metronome sound. It's described in the Memorymoog Plus manual at page 1. You can find this manual online.
This MM was never mine. It belongs to a friend of mine and I have returned it a long time ago so I can't help you, sorry. Best of luck. Cheers :)
Looks like a display from a HP calculator.
A Behemoth! 💖🥸
It's big and heavy for sure. ;-)
Why does the One sound so thin compared to this?
The One can also sound pretty fat, but the MM has way more character. Albeit not technically correct, it can be perceived as a 6-voice Minimoog. If only it had been more reliable …
“known for being temperamental, fragile …they go out of tune very fast,” - that describes me as well 😅
Same here; I definitely run on VCO's.
Taking this opportunity, is Memorymoog comparable in sound to Matriath?
Never played a Matriarch, but I would say a big NO.
Flobakk is a lucky bastard...
I regret having not bought one when I travelled to USA in the end of the 90´s. 1500 euros, same for a CS 80, where too heavy for the plane.
Those displays are LED, not fluorescent :)
Slip of the tongue. ;-)
Can I have one for Christmas please? If I'm very well behaved?
LAMM?
18:20 Oj vad snyggt, Sonny Crockett FTW.
Tackar!
Hello, do you own a Memory Moog?
No.
the color synth from miami vice them!!the talk mess also a lot from démo them!!
No one talks about synths going out of tune. My band mate swears my Korg V3 Trinity Pro X is out of tune and I thought he was whack! 😆 How is that possible?
The global tuning of the synth might be off compared to the tuning of the rest of the band, but the Trinity itself will not go out of tune as in oscillators drifting out of tune on an analog synth.
Espen, this is awesome as always. But this one is unreliable as well as unaffordable. Therefore I resort to my Nord Lead ... 😉
Cheers!
Nords are nowhere near this.
This is deliciously fat and should NEVER go on a diet!
I have to make do with the Aturia Minimoog emulation the Mini V which I got for free, and to Me sounds very much like what I have heard from the real one and also all the sounds you play around with here also sounds identical and I am very happy with it. It's also alot easier for Me to get the Mini V sound into My daw and recorded then a real physical Moog would be for Me.
Hardware is always a very different experience.
Hey Espen, > just heard a great tune with a MOOG setup that I think you'd enjoy for this time of year, my girl described it as "sounding like what the last few weeks of summer walking away feels like"
You can check it out here:
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I was about to buy a MemoryMoog back in 1999, but decided against it, since I wanted a Plus. Ended up buying a Korg Trinity V3 instead, for quite a lot more than the punter selling the MM asked.
We've all done things we regret. ;-)
It's ok, but wouldn't a VST plugin be much better?
(...I know...I know....someone has to be that guy...joking of course)
Define "better". ;-)
What strikes me is that my Polybrute can sound very simular.
No.
@@marcusfreeweb Do you own one?
@@synriser6742 Polybrute is new, Memorymoog is old. I can hear it easily, the fundamental quality of the sound is different. Polybrute can sound something kinda like this, ok, why not? Very similar, like close? For me, not. I listened to many demos.
@ghost mall Indeed. The polybrute has it' own character. Also like the ladder filter on it. I know a Moog sounds different but with that ladder filter you can get close. Moog will always sound like a moog still.
Sorry for being a little rude. I think the Memorymoog in this demo sounds distinctively vintage, almost to the point of sounding a little wacky, related (not only) to oscillator out-of-tuning or drifting magic, and imo this „old sound“ cannot easily be recreated on a modern synth, even with some „vintage“ knob feature or random pitch mod trickery.
will buy it for 500€!
Not mine to sell.
@@EspenKraft I was joking. I know that the price is worth more than 10 times:-) have a cool weekend. btw: you know the Movie "The Legend of Billie Jean"? Greets from a another crazy 80ies Lover. cheers!
Sure, I know. Only ever seen the trailer for that movie though. I think Memorymoogs go for around €14000 these days. ;-)
@@EspenKraft you have to watch it :-) so much magical 80ies synths inside too. such precious childhood memories. tonight "st.elmos fire". cool weekend for you and keep up your great work!
@@EspenKraft Really wow, I think one of the new digital synthesizers like Navation Summit would be better for Me.
when i look at the moog one, i want it to look like the memory moog. I am having a hard time wanting the One because of that disgusting digital screen... WHO THE F wanted that on there? To pay 7K$ and not want to have sex with every sqr. mm of the thing is not good.
Unison mode....
Sounds good but is not the best synth ever made! Polivoks which dufonic is one of the best synths ever made! Alisa 1377 is one of the best mono synths ever made! 2 soviet made beauties!
I never said it was the best. I say it's hailed as one of the best. ;-)
Also the soviet filters are more intersting too!
@@EspenKraft Do you have to be so grumpy each time you answer? A positive perspective will take all of us a step further. I have tryed a lot of synths in my days. I have 49 now. There are a lot of overrated stuff kut there.
You think that was a grumpy answer? I even put a smiley in there. I make a video about the Memorymoog and your comment is that it's not the best sounding synth ever made, like I ever said that. You even put an exclamation point behind your comment. And then you come prancing in with stories about Soviet mono synths? Which has no relevance whatsoever as a comment to this video. Go easy on the attitude please.
@@EspenKraft Well any comparison with other synths is relevent. I think it is a good one but not as good as it's price. 12 k $ is not a resonable price. I have tryed ARP Quadra and it sounds very good but then again it is very costly. Also some of the classics are limited to a few types of music. Many soviet synths are inspired by classic synths. Polivoks is inspired by the Minimoog model D but the filter is totally different and unique. The Elektronika EM-26 is a copy of Roland VP-3300 but is still different. I said it sounded good didn't I? However there are always more interesting synths especially with that pricetag.
That's a beautiful sounding synth. The Blade Runner theme sounded wonderful through it.
It's artificial. ;-) Cheers