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Average rating:
4.3 out of 5
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i would like to add to my previous review (below), that i now have compared it to a MINI, and lo! the micromoog sounds - interestingly enough - almost like a cross between the typical moog sound and an ARP instrument... or possibly - like Mr Moogenstein mentions below - a Pro-one.
i actually thought it compared VERY favourably to the mini (even though it only sports one osc, twiddling the mixable (!) waveforms and the sub-osc simultaneously kind of makes up for that and yields organic texture to your playing.
since i prefer the precise low end of arp instruments, i liked the micromoog actually better than the (more limited) minimoog.
with its lower price, superb patchabilty, and imho just as distinguished looks, it should not be slagged off lightly... as to the semi-qualified review on page one, where it says "a minimoog is way cooler": kraftwerk did the model (bassline) with this, and now how can you get much "cooler" than that???
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I just got my Micromoog a few days ago and I love it very much. It does have a dark sound to it, as someone else said. My MG-1 sounds a lot more rubbery and therefore cooler for jumpy bass lines, but the Micro is great. I love the filter. I'm still feeling it out. My pitch ribbon doesn't work and I think a key contact needs to be cleaned but other than that it's in tip top shape.
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after owning it for a couple of years, i agree with the reviewer who attested it a somewhat modular sound. it excels at weird sound fx and is very flexible, en excellent building block for modular interfacing. probably very underrated, but also doesn´t come up too often for sale. sure, a second osc would be nice, but you don´t really miss it when you tweak this machine. there is sooooo much you can do with it as it is.
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About the only real thing of interest for this little synth is that is was the last synthesizer designed by Bob Moog back in the day. If you want some fundamental bass lines or screaching leads, its ok. For me, the single VCO is the problem. Bob tried to help it with octave doubling etc. but you really need at least two VCO's tunable at intervals to do anything interesting (my opinion here). It does have good interface capabilities (digital folks can ignore that last statement), and "THE FILTER". The pitch "strip" is weird Alice - I'm sure someone can make it sound good but not me. Mine ended up slaved to a sequencer until the prices on ebay got stupid :-)
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Had a new Multimoog, the 2 oscillator version of the Micro. Comments/observations: -Disagree with many of the above comments - excellent, professional sounds, but NOT classic Moog sounds heard with most of the rest of the line from a Mini, Prodigy, Source or Memorymoog, which all have similarly classic Moog warmth, fatness and distortion. Micro/Multi have instead a somewhat colder, cleaner, cutting Pro-One sound - excellent, but different, ie Steve Winwood Multimoog solos -Multimoog's strenth is expressivity, particularly live, given the ability to use aftertouch - unusual for a synth of this time..
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