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About Moog Multi Pedal MP201
About Moog Multi Pedal MP201: Hi my name is Cyril Lance, I’m with Moog Music, and I’m very quickly going to talk about our newest controller product which we’re very excited about. It’s called the Multi Pedal MP201, and there’s an awful lot to this product, and I encourage you to go to the web to learn more. But basically it’s got four control voltages out. In the Moog world we control everything in all our products through voltages. So these are general voltages, could be connected to a lot of analog effects like moogerfoogers, or analog synths like our Little Fatty or Voyager, it’s also got MIDI out, both DIN MIDI and USB so it can, each channel it can control either an analog signal and or any MIDI device too. So one of the inspirations of this product is to kind of bring together all these different worlds, MIDI devices like MIDI keyboards and drum machines, digital audio workstations, right into your USB port here and kind of synchronize and be able to control all of them. So for instance I could have a drum machine creating a MIDI time clock and going into here and controlling the tempo of an LFO which is then controlling MIDI and analog gear or I could, say, in this channel I could go into tap tempo mode, and I could create a tempo and control my analog gear, and on midi out send a midi clock to some drum machine so I could sync up my analog gear, my MIDI keyboard, my drum machine. Each channel can be several different things, it could be a control channel, just the pedal could just sweep a voltage, and you can set up what the voltage you sweep is. It could be, here I’m going from zero to maximum, here I’m going from maximum to zero. Each channel could also be many different types of waveform. So this is a triangle wave, here’s a square wave, this is a sawtooth, a ramp, and you can just random, so you can get kind of sample and whole kind of old synthesizer kind of techniques, or you can output noise, and all of these I can control, say, here I’m controlling the rate with the pedal, or I could control the amount, or the offset. So this generalized controller can create all of these different waveforms. The waveforms go from super slow, all the way up into the audio, so you could use this to kind of amplitude modulate a signal on your Little Fatty or your Voyager or some other synth too. And the wonderful thing is that all four channels can be synced together. They can sync to analog gear, they can sync to midi gear, and they can sync to digital audio workstations. So a lot of the applications are musicians who use a lot of different types of gear, or wanna store different types of analog setups. It enables you to create kind of analog presets for your analog gear, but, lets say you’re in the studio, and you have a digital audio workstation, and you’re recording all your tracks, and you have a MIDI time clock, and you have a guitar line, and you wanna put a filter on it that’s synced with your drums. You would just take your USB cable into this device, sync an LFO waveform to it, and now your guitar is, the effects your putting on your guitar are synced to your drum beat. So theres’ a world of opportunities to kind of open up all your sonic possibilities with this product, and I urge you to kind of go and check out more, and there’s a lot of YouTube videos and stuff you can look at too. Thanks a lot.
