66 thoughts on “Moog Grandmother Semi-Modular Analog Synthesizer Combines Vintage Vibe With Modern Connectivity”

1. Didn’t see that coming! A little weird but interesting. Not sure about that name though…

2. Love that name! Looks like a quilt grandma made, perfect look for the name. Can’t wait to hear it.

   1. I thought the same!

      I miss her ?

3. I really like the color scheme. Is that Bass Station blue? Looking forward to the sound demos.

   Can’t wait to whinge about the price!.!

4. GILP!!!

   1. Haha!

5. That is so ugly that I want one.

   1. Yeah – it is sort of ugly but in a good way!

      Reminds me of those old Radio Shack electronics kits crossed with a Realistic MG-1.

      Its like they’ve embraced the rest of their company history, not just the early synth pioneer days.

      1. > Reminds me of those old Radio Shack electronics kits

         Yes!

6. THEY FINALLY DID IT! An analog synth with built-in reverb! Someone pinch me!

   1. ARP2600 – Analog synth with built in reverb…built in 1972. Semi-modular too! I am seriously happy though to see it being done again. I think they should include a built in delay too though.

   2. Dreadbox did it with the Nyx a few years ago. Not a spring reverb but an analog one nonetheless.

      1. it‘s a dsp reverb not analog

   3. my Therevox ET-4 has a large built-in spring reverb, very cool.. and significantly less fugly.

   4. MatrixBrute.

7. looks a lot like my old mg-1

   1. @drfinkfunc: Exactly. But that one had a decent name though.

      1. „Realistic Concertmate“ ? ^^

8. Can’t believe how great and vintage this looks

   1. @XmasDreamz: It’s your christmas dream then, coming out on mothers day 😉

9. This is most erotic

10. Not too bad a price for being a Moog….may be the first I get.

11. Behringer has just leaked details of a new denim jacket they are working on. 😉

    1. All the stars!!!!

    2. Don’t you just hate that cheap Chinese cotton?

    3. Behringer sucks imo.

12. awesome! finally a synth that looks as fun to play as it is! love the name. forget the godfather, watch out for the grand mother!

13. 35 years after the Memorymoog, and Moog still doesn’t know how to use color.

    Oh well. An aftermarket black panel and this will look as good as I’m sure it sounds.

    1. There will be two versions, this and an all black…so don’t worry.

14. They take the cake for silly names for sure

15. Vintage vibe? I’ve been doing this 40 years and don’t remember anything like this, whats so ‘vintage’ about it? The pitch/mod wheels maybe? Looks like a Fischer Price toy. I’m sure it will sound cool though, and I’m sure some will dig the aesthetics, but alas not I.

    1. Moog MG-1

    2. Look up synth keyboards of the 70s, like the MG-1 or the Sonic Six or even the Foland SH-7. Lots of retro influences with this one!

    3. 40 years isnt vintage enough, think early 70s

16. Here we go. Overpriced crippled analog mono for $900(moog brand ofc). Compare it to Behringer’s Neutron($300) for example 😀

    1. Maybe next time you could make an intelligent comparison?

       1. With all the free VSTs out there this thing should not cost more than the Minimoog app!!
          /s

          1. Does the minimoog App come with free hardware? Or does it work off thin air? Nonsensical comment.

             1. It was a joke. This is what /s means.

                1. Well, I got it 🙂

                   But not everybody is familiar with HTML / pseudo-HTML markup like

                   (less than)sarcasm(greater than)
                   Great.
                   (less than + slash)sarcasm(greater than)

                   Which eventually simply became:

                   Great. /s

                   Edited: comment software eats wayward HTML tags 🙁

       2. Actually both are great (well have not heard Grandmother but ill assume) I will be picking up both and patching them together.

17. Oh dear. Can’t imagine any way Bob Moog would have approved of this. Awful. Either the people at the company that bears his name have become mother lovers or, which I consider more likely, they consider their customers likewise and as a bunch of Morons. And when does synthopia publish it? MOTHERS day. Please No.

    I’d go for a pair of M32’s any time, but not this.

    1. Exactly!

    2. I think Bob would’ve approved this. Its reminiscent of the Sonic Six, the Source, the MG-1 or the Opus-3

18. OK now, for a serious question. Where are those 41 patch points?

    1. I can count 38 of them in the picture, the other 3 may be on the back or hidden by the perspective

    2. The points are located on Grandmother

19. All those matriarcal names… The DFAM marketing revolving around women synthesists… Is Moog going through some sort of an Oedipus complex or what?

    1. Nothing new – It all goes back to the Bob Moog days, with the MoogerFoogers, clearly a play on words, like the names that followed.

20. If it didn’t look so ridiculous with all those colors, and instead was a more traditional black i mightve gotten it. I’m sorry but I think this is one of the ugliest synths I’ve seen in a while.

    1. It’s all a question of taste. Personally, I like it a lot. There are enough single-color-boring-looking synths you can buy, if you prefer “traditional black”.
       Now, it’s very unlikely that I’ll buy one, but more because of money and space.

21. Is this real or a April 1st leftover ?

22. Is this a phat grandmother?

    1. or little phatty`s grandmother ?

23. Just release the modules individually. Would be better as part of eurorack setup. Keyboard is unnecessary and hard to tell how limited the oscillators are.

24. Ok yeah I guess it looks kinda the Radio Shack one that I never saw back in the day cause I never went to radio shack. When I said in my post above it doesn’t look like anything vintage I’ve seen in the past 40 years of doing this I guess I should narrow my world down to the Los Angeles area stores and studios I frequented, stores like West LA Music, Nadines, Guitar Center Hollywood, Jim’s Music, Sightsinger, etc., and studios like Ocean amongst the more well known ones, and many smaller ones ….. never saw any vintage synths that looked like this with those weird colors. The Wasp was about the weirdest one I ever saw laying around, it was modtly considered a toy back then. So yeah I guess maybe there were some other weird vintage synths out there, but not in my neck of the woods.

    1. So it’s only legitimately retro in design if it resembles a synth you’ve seen with your own eyes, near where you live? That makes sense.

25. Not bad at all, though it’s pretty ugly (no pun intended).

26. I can finally bring my grandmother to the techno gig and get her up on stage! The kids will love her, not for the cookies but for the way she screams.

    1. @Loic: Right. The original Moogs at least had character and scream. Mrs. Tina Turner is a grandma with character and screams. So i’m curious about this Grand mother in the family.

27. …no Mini-Keys??!!!??

28. Overpriced, It probably only cost about $600 dollars-ish. I’ll wait to by it used. All the hype is just a marketing tactic to buy it on impulse, which makes them a lot of money. All impulse buys equal regret and then you look for something that is better/”New!” repeating the cycle.

29. Any synth with a built in spring reverb gets a thumbsup from me

30. Another mono machine from Moog…..:S

    1. Complaining that Moog created another mono machine is like complaining that Harley Davidson keeps churning out two wheelers. It’s what they do.

       1. Not only that, but they make a “potato, potato, potato, potato” noise instead of sounding like a chainsaw on steroids. Stupid Harley’s.

          But, yeah, Moog’s play mono leads (albeit, for people that can afford them)