Description
The mightiest of all analog modular synthesisers, Moog Music’s largest standard configuration (System 35 and Model 15 are smaller systems) provides late ‘sixties & early ‘seventies modules identical to those designed by Bob Moog and his early engineering team. The Moog Modular System 55 is not a “restoration” or “new old stock.” It’s a part-for-part brand new production of a Moog System 55. It’s an original. Moog modular systems are hand-built analog instruments brought to life utilizing original documentation, circuit board and art files, and manufacturing methods. Available in highly-limited limited quantities, these are the only true recreations of classic Moog modular instruments.The System 55 is a subtractive synthesiser, one that processes complex pulse, sawtooth, triangle, and noise waveforms using a complement of filters. Low pass, high pass, band pass, band reject, and fixed filter bank (for creating formants) functions are provided. The System 55 is an analog synthesizer that processes continuously variable electronic signals, providing immediate and smooth responses to all user-programming decisions. Analog monophonic Moog Modular Systems played a central role in the development of electronic music, both on stage and in the studio. Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer thrilled throngs with his huge custom Moog 900 Series Modular System, playing extended solos on hits such as “Lucky Man”. Wendy Carlos shook up the classical music world in 1969 with her pioneering Switched On Bach album, realised on a Moog 900 Series Modular System. It would be difficult to count the number of composers, sound designers, and performers who teethed on Moog Modular Systems.
