User's Guide
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Exploring the Moog Guitar
This section provides suggestions for exploring the many innovations of The Moog Guitar. They are just starting points
and many other expressive variations are possible. You may find that while maximum Vo Power is useful for illustrating
many of the innovations, setting it to a lesser amount provides a result more suited to your playing situation. Use these
examples as a starting point and explore!
Full Sustain Mode
– Place the
Mode Selector Switch
in
Full Sustain
position. Adjust the
Vo Power Knob
for maximum
power. Place the
Filter Toggle Switch
into the tone position. Strum a full six-stringed chord. All notes sustain clearly and
powerfully. You can also hold a chord with your left hand and tap new notes on the fretboard with your right.
Mute Mode
– Place the
Mode Selector Switch
in
Mute
position. Adjust the
Vo Power Knob
for maximum power. Place
the
Filter Toggle Switch
into the
tone
position. Set the control pedal midway between heel and toe. Play individual notes,
intervals or chords (high on the neck sounds particularly nice). Notes are physically muted, resulting in more staccato
timbres. The instrument actually feels different! Great for traditional blues, world music and beyond.
Controlled Sustain Mode
-
Place the
Mode Selector
switch in
Controlled Sustain
position. Adjust the
Vo Power Knob
for
maximum power. Play single note lines or several strings at once.
In
Controlled Sustain Mode
several tests are applied to bias a string either towards being muted or being driven.
Deliberately played strings cross an amplitude threshold that varies according to a proprietary algorithm. The strings are
not either "on" or "off"; it does not work like that. Everything is gradual. A tendency towards sounding louder is "rewarded"
with more energy; a tendency towards being muted is encouraged with active muting, resulting in a more natural feeling
playing experience.
The muting is not absolute; The Moog Guitar will still allow sympathetic vibrations when they are strongly related to the
basic pitch of the played string or strings; resulting in a very natural feel. With
Controlled Sustain
, it’s about as easy to
govern the strings in the presence of strong sustain as it is to play an ordinary guitar that doesn't have sustain.
Harmonic Blends
– Set
Mode Selector
switch to
Full Sustain
. Place
Filter Toggle Switch
into the tone position. Strum
and hold a chord, then slowly move the foot pedal from heel to toe position and back.
During
Harmonic Blend
s, one pick-up supplies sustaining energy while the other attempts to mute the strings. The pedal
pans the sustaining and muting energy between the neck and bridge pick-ups. This results in natural, shifting harmonic
overtones that are actually occurring on the strings.
Moog Filter –
Set the
Filter Toggle Switch
to
Moog Filter
. Set the
Mode Selector Switch
to
Full Sustain
. Place the
Control Pedal into heel position. Strum and hold a chord. Move the Pedal towards the toe position. The Control Pedal
controls the cutoff frequency of the Moog Filter, much like a sophisticated wah-wah pedal. In this mode, the Tone/Filter
knob controls the filter resonance.
Change the
Filter Toggle Switch
to
Articulated Moog Filter
. The articulated filter now modulates the cutoff frequency of the
filter for each string based on the energy present at that string; much like a hex envelope follower. The pedal sets the
start frequency of the articulation. In this mode, the
Tone/Filter Knob
controls the filter resonance. Play in any mode. The
articulated filter can also be used to provide a unique vocal-like quality to melodic phrasing.
The Moog Filter cutoff frequency can also be controlled by an external
Control Voltage
signal (0-5V). This signal can
come from an MP-201 Multi Pedal, a CP-251 Control Voltage Processor or any other equipment capable of generating
suitable control voltages.
A great application is to synchronize the Multi Pedal’s on board LFO (through MIDI Clock Sync) to a laptop or drum
machine rhythm track and then to use that LFO to modulate the filter cutoff frequency.
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