The arpeggiator or sequencer is generally fairly basic and much of what you would expect, outside of the fact that they are built-in to a Moog! Most $3,000+ Voyagers don’t even have this capability, adding a ton of value to the already much lighter price tag. You’ll hear some Sub Phatty in there along with a ton of parameter automation via Logic on the Sub 37: Here is a track we put together to show off the Sub 37’s filter along with the aforementioned Duo mode and drive possibilities. It allows the Sub 37 to go from a typical, solid sounding Moog, to a nasty over-the-top and even experimental beast. This idea, in combination with the looping envelopes, Mutli-Drive and Feedback loop, can be a dangerous combination. In many cases I found myself making tweaks to sounds specifically pertaining to the way the two notes interacted with one another. Ok so you aren’t going to be making big lush chord progressions like with a true poly synth, but I found the dual voice paraphonic option to be quite amazing and that it opened up the instrument’s possibilities significantly. Seemingly more and more popular with mono synth makers, this is actually a paraphonic synthesizer.
But Sub 37 adds a whole lot more to the picture including two LFO modulation busses, an arpeggiator/sequencer, external input feedback and Duo mode.Īs the name suggests, Duo mode allows us to play two notes at once. And of course, Moog’s incredible ladder-style low pass filter (6db, 12db, 14db or 24 db) and the same incredible Mutli-Drive circuit distortion (I’m drooling just writing about it).
#MOOG SUB 37 DIGITAL SIGNAL PATH PRO#
Much like the Phatty, Sub 37 is friends with your Mac, easily communicating with Logic, Pro Tools and other DAWs (more on this below).Īt its core, the Sub 37’s basic synthesis modules are very much the same as Sub Phatty: two continuously variable waveform oscillators, a fantastic mixer section that will drive the filter even more at higher values, a square wave sub oscillator, pink noise generator, dual envelopes and more.
#MOOG SUB 37 DIGITAL SIGNAL PATH PLUS#
You’ll also find a couple orange backlit wheels for pitch and modulation, a headphone out, a handy master mute button and the typical I/O options: audio in/out, pitch/filter/volume/gate CVs, plus din and USB MIDI. Moog certainly didn’t spare any expenses on the keys themselves either, as this is a great feeling keyboard all around. This time around we are getting a 3 octave, 37-key keyboard with aftertouch for additional expression/modulation possibilities (no aftertouch on Sub Phatty). The Sub 37 is not only one of the best made instruments I have ever played, but it’s also one of the nicest looking synthesizers out there in my opinion. Every knob, switch and button is made with impeccable quality. There is absolutely nothing cheap about it. Once again, this is a serious piece of machinery straight from the Asheville, North Carolina factory. I might even make the argument that in some ways, for the price, it outshines Moog’s $3,000 – $5,000 Minimoog Voyagers:
While the Sub 37 will certainly be reaching into your pockets a little deeper, it comes with just about everything the Sub Phatty has to offer, and then some. In last week’s review we found that Sub Phatty was a more than capable instrument that brings Moog’s world famous sound at an, all things considered, affordable price tag.
Another analog instrument from legendary synth powerhouse Moog, the Sub 37 takes it up a notch offering a much deeper feature set and refined workflow compared to its baby brother, Sub Phatty. In this week’s episode of The Logic Pros, we are taking a look at the Moog Sub 37.
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