Moog Music making more… software
It’s not the first time, of course, and this time it’s not about synths…
Most hardware music gear manufacturers must shake their fists like angry cartoon characters whenever they see emulations – or those approximations with weirdly similar names – of their gear being made by software developers. “I’ll get you, you little scamps,” they probably shout, as the young developers leap over the walls of the orchard, clutching stolen apples beneath their jerkins. Moog Music have taken a different approach. Rather than chasing those tikes from the software orchard (yes, we’ve gone too far with the analogy but can’t stop now) they’ve become them, emulating their own gear in software. And doing it bloody well…
And actually, Moog have been doing great software for some time, with much of its success on the iOS platform. There’s
Animoog of course, plus the amazing Model 15 and Minimoog emulations, the latter of which got the perfect boost last month with an update that allows you to use it within macOS and any DAW with AUv3 compatibility. (30 bucks for a proper Minimoog – yes!).
But we’re not here to talk synths. Moog have just announced some more software, and in typical left-field, ‘not what you quite expected fashion’ have only gone and emulated their own Mooger Fooger pedals!
These classic pedals – based around modules from the even more classic Moog Modular – were relatively recent late ’90s, early 2000s releases. But note that we say ‘were’ because they have since been discontinued. And what ‘discontinued’ means in Moog speak is ‘rising secondhand prices’ in our language. So high is the demand for the original pedals that Moog Music have done what any parent company would do – replicate them in software before someone else comes along and tries it with ‘Pooger Dooger’ copies or suchlike!
The Moogerfooger S-series plugins are based on the main seven pedals, the MF-101 filter, MF-102 modulator, MF-103 phaser, MF-104 delay, MF-105 Multiple Resonance Filter Array, MF-107 FreqBox and MF-108M Cluster Flux chorus/flanger.
They are Mac and PC AAX/AU/VST3 plugins and, as you can see, we’ve had them on review as we go to press and they seem very good indeed. They take us right back to the days of owning the originals (we’re not kicking ourselves for having got rid of them, oh no), but come with the beauty of presets which you didn’t get on the originals.
All seven cost a reasonable $249 (intro price). Full price TBA. Our review might well be on musicradar.com as you read this.