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Any Moog Mother 32 owners out there?
Hi,
Hi,
Kinda' of an impulse buy for Xmas, but just picked up a used Moog Mother 32. My first hardware Moog.
After only a couple of missteps, got it setup with the MPC Key 61. Also figured it with my Keystep. I'm sure I can could set her up with my iPad.
Anyone else have it? Any tips?
Cheers,
Joe
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Yessir, you can control you M32 via MIDI cable!
I have one of these cables to send/receive MIDI via my iPad:
https://www.guitarcenter.com/iConnectivity/mioXC-USB-C-USB-A-Compatible-MIDI-Interface.gc
It comes with a USB-C adapter.
Of course you can send M32 audio into the iPad with an audio interface, I would suggest:
https://www.guitarcenter.com/MOTU/M2-2x2-USB-C-Audio-Interface.gc
Congratulations on your impulse buy!
I have the MOTU M4 and it has a MIDI interface built in, so you wouldn’t need the USB MIDI adapter, just a standard 5-pin MIDI cable. The manual covers the M2 as well, and in the photo of the back panel, it has MIDI in and out too, so you might not need the separate MIDI adapter, unless you also have a load of other MIDI stuff and it makes connections easier. The MOTU MIDI connections just show up in AUM when the interface is connected to the iPad, so I assume the same thing happens with the likes of Cubasis etc, whatever you choose to use.
I bought one at the beginning of the pandemic but wound up selling it along because I was worried it would be a “modular gateway drug.” But I recently wound up with a Subharmonicon through a series of gear trades and the M32 is back on my list.
It’s easy and fun to control with MIDI, but make sure that you learn the internal sequencer as well! You can do a lot with it, especially once you start patching. One of my favourite sounds was using the LFO to control filter resonance — that’s not a super common patch point, even in software, and you can get some interesting evolving stuff with it.
Heh, MiRack was the gateway drug in my case, and the Moog Sound Studio 3 was the result! And a Mavis. And I’m still hankering after some more modules… slippery slope!
The M32 sequencer is very powerful but I find some of the button combinations impossible to remember, so I often resort to using the iPad to sequence it. Which doesn’t help getting the M32 button presses into muscle memory, it’s true, and you lose the ability to use the sequencer output as a modulation source if you do that.
The synergy between the Moogs is remarkable, though: in combination, very much more than the sum of their parts. Very well thought-out instruments once you dig into them.
Cool, thanks for the replies!
Do you ever blend or layer in the Mother 32 with some virtual synth instruments?
I found that layering my Moog synth with FM and tiny amounts of PWM oscillators can be a nice match for bass lines.
Other than that, I'd make sure to spend enough time on the machine itself because layering doesn't necessarily make the sound stand out more. I find the Mother's oscillator rather limited but there are a few nice tricks you can do with modulation and patching.
I don’t really do that, but what I do most of the time is use effects to mutate the patch. I just regard that as an extension of patching the instrument itself.
Plus, as I have the M4 and MiRack, each synth can have its own input into the iPad, with its own effect chain, and the audio can be piped into MiRack for processing. Plus MiRack can use the two spare outputs to send CV to the Moogs - fine for gates and modulation, but I’ve never managed to successfully get the outputs calibrated for pitch. I’ve recently started to experiment with using envelope followers in MiRack so I can modulate things off the incoming audio, though so far nothing spectacularly useful has come of it.
All of which is probably veering off topic, but hopefully will give you ideas as to where you could take this, if it suits what you want to do.
Thanks.
The layering question stems from a theory I have that it's compelling enough to an audience to have more precise, on-the-grid, digital, virtual, or auto-tuned recorded tracks IF you have enough sound that feels more raw, human, and "analog" in the mix. That is just my theory.
So I might put Mother 32 sounds on top of 1 or 2 virtual synth voices.