Review Overview To begin with a moment of reflection, it’s been a difficult year or so for Music. June 2023 saw the company acquired by and owners InMusic, with sources suggesting that the majority of production would be moving away from the US. That September, reports from the factory floor claimed that .
“Moog [is] about to change forever,” wrote one former employee. Indeed, the following on Broadway Street. More recently, too.
Moog Music’s official statement following the 2023 layoffs concluded, “We ask that you [...
] keep an open mind as we put the finishing touches on some of our most innovative instruments yet.” Well, an open mind we shall keep. Besides — to zoom out for a moment — these sorts of shake-ups are nothing personal, and hardly new in the music technology industry (remember when ?).
What we producers are concerned about is the fruit. Moog’s marked shift into developing will no doubt have frustrated many analogue and hardware devotees, with the Vision Pro-oriented being one such invention that will likely have borne the brunt of that. The recent , on the other hand, showed real promise, and there are auspicious rumblings concerning a new hardware polyphonic powerhouse.
Now comes Spectravox, an addition to what is arguably the biggest success story of Moog’s recent output: its semi-modular line. Like the preceding , , it comes as a -friendly unit in its own elegant, wood-sided case. Like those other instruments, it is a compact, rather beaut.
