Bob Moog - RIP

Sad day for all musicians.

http://www.moogmusic.com

I wish I had met him in person.

R>I>P. Mr Moog......you were a genius. Never will be forgotten...your vision will always live and be respected.

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I feel like all of us that make electronic music are his and Raymond Scotts' children.
A sad day indeed..

ORIGINAL: b rock

We must honor his name and give thanks to him

We (in general) can start with the correct pronunciation: Moog rhymes with rogue; not fugue. I don't know what to say; the end of an era. I'm not sure if Bob was a musician trapped in an inventor/engineer's body, or the other way around. He certainly was no businessman., but he hade his ears and mind wide-open.

Those filters, man ... absolutely nothing like it. They changed the course of music, but it was the voltage-control concept that made all it work. Seems obvious in hindsight, but it was pure genius. We've got Bob Moog to thank for his legacy; the fruits of which we enjoy every day. It could've just as easily been Don Buchla that changed the course of music history. The difference was that Bob listened to musicians.

Patchcord some inspiration this way, Bob. You'll be missed.

Brilliantly espoused and articulated as always Mr. Rock.

The passing of a hero and inspiration to many aspiring e-musicians (myself included). A real pioneer and true legend in his own time (despite the crooks that took advantage of him back in the 70's). Article1 Article 2

Jim, I think that story just sold me on the Arturia... and I wasn't even shopping for it!

Edit: P.S. Jim, did you ever take a look at the Moog filter? It turns out to be exceptionally difficult to model digitally*. Four transconductance stage integrators (for current-controlled frequency) with one feedback around the whole thing, also a transconductance stage (for current-controlled resonance). Current control got converted to voltage control using buffered resistors and/or current mirrors.

The transconductance stages soft-clipped very naturally and smoothly. But since they were part of the filter cascade and so inside of it, the harmonics got sort of "enriched" before passing to the output. Feedback added to the overall "richness".

If you do a root locus of the four poles as you adjust feedback, only two of the poles cross the imaginary axis. The other two go to la-la-land. So it had the rolloff of a fourth-order, but the resonance of a second-order. I heard that Moog described it as being a more "musical-sounding" filter that way. Anyway, it was pure genius. And I truly tip my hat to Arturia for getting Bob Moog's blessing on the result.

*(Well, with nonzero feedback, anyway. So you could say that the digital version of the filter was difficult to make resonant.)

ORIGINAL: rabeach
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Yes, I find that it's very helpful. There's Greek for both Old and New Testaments as well. I believe that the Greek OT comes from the Septuagint.

In case you're not familiar with Stong's numbers, they are a numerical catalog mapping of every Hebrew and Greek word. It works because letters are also numbers in both Hebrew and Greek, and so words map uniquely to numbers. By extension, word derivatives map to similar numbers. What's cool is that you can do a reverse lookup on words (kind of like Googling a phone number) and thereby get every usage of a particular word in the original language, free of any bias from translators. I like that because I can get the "real deal", straight from the horses' mouth, so to speak. And now modern computer-based search technology makes word studies very fast.

Hey ra, you seem pretty well-read, particularly because you mentioned that you're an agnostic and yet you are obviously interested in translation of Biblical text. Could you elaborate on your interest in these topics? No pressure...