DURHAM – Artists have additional ways to create and augment their music just in time for Moogfest. And Adrian Younge of Black Dynamite as well as Like Cage on Netflix demonstrates the power of “Grandmother” in “Thesis on Sound,” a new video.

On Monday, Moog Music unveiled the new synthesizer which has already sold more than 500 copies. Fans and interested buyers can visit the Moog Pop-Up Factory in Durham later this week.

The company describes Grandmother as a “semi-modular analog synthesizer with a built-in arpeggiator, sequencer, and spring reverb tank.”

Grandmother can trace its “circuits, spirit, and spring reverb” to Moog Modular Synthesizers designed by the late Bob Moog during the 1960s and 1970s.

The Grandmother from Moog Music. Moog image)

An “External Audio Input” on Grandmother also enables artists and musicians to inject sounds from other instruments directly into Grandmother’s analog filter, reverb and amplifier circuits, thus “adding vintage tones and ambience to guitars, drums or vocal signals.”

Prices start at $899.

The Moog Pop-Up Factory, located at 318 Blackwell Street in Durham, will be open for visitors between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. on May 17-20, the same dates as the annual music, life style and tech festival across the Bull City.

GRANDMOTHER FEATURES

• Hardware Spring Reverb can be used to process external sounds
• ¼” External audio input for guitars, drum machines, and more.
• Semi-modular – no patching is required
• Easy to use Arpeggiator and Sequencer
• Store up to 3 sequences with up to 256 notes each
• 2 Analog Oscillators with selectable waveshape and hard sync
• Classic 4-Pole 10Hz-20kHz Ladder filter
• Patchable 1-Pole High Pass filter
• Analog ADSR Envelope Generator
• Analog LFO with audio-rate capabilities
• 32-note Fatar keyboard with velocity
• All normalized connections can be interrupted for full modularity
• DIN MIDI In/Out/Thru and USB MIDI
• Patchable bipolar attenuator
• Works with Mother-32, DFAM, Eurorack modular systems and more
• 41 patch points with 21 inputs, 16 outputs and a Parallel-Wired 4-jack Mult

Source: Moog Music