It just takes a moment to refer to the Patchbook and recover the patch as it is all laid out for you and you’re back at the Jumping-Off Point and in synthesizer heaven. Very quickly you’re messing with knobs and flicking switches and enjoying the interaction until you find yourself lost down some rabbit hole. The DFAM feels really loud and crunchy and was a complete surprise as I’d never used one before. You hit Run/Stop on the M-32 and they both spring into life in the most brilliantly banging way possible. You put all the knobs to the positions shown, patch a couple of cables, then they tell you to enter a quick sequence into the Mother-32 as you learned about in lesson 1 – which you now have to go back to because you skipped it to get to this first patch. The first patch is called the “Jumping-Off Point” which they say is a really good place to start exploring.
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It’s a booklet full of step-by-step instructions and illustrated patch examples. This is probably the most useful thing in the box. You may have seen it in the marketing materials where it’s sitting on a shelf above the synths and while it can certainly do that it’s actually designed to clip onto the rear support bracket and be hidden beneath the DFAM. There’s nothing particularly “pro” about it, you don’t even have control over individual levels, but it does more than it needs to making it versatile and useful going forward. The little mixer really brings this bundle together and makes it a simple and elegant solution. There’s a spare power outlet to run another Moog semi-modular synth if you felt like expanding. So, rather than having three separate wall warts running your little studio, you can have a single one plugged into the mixer which then feeds into the synths with short cables. Plug the DFAM and Mother-32 into inputs 1 and 2 and you have 2 spare ones for another synth or 2.Īnother very cool feature of the summing mixer is that it has pass-thru connectors for the DC power supply. It has 4 inputs which can be paired into stereo inputs and a single stereo headphone output which could also drive some speakers. So in order to successfully use these two synths together without assuming you have other gear to sort that out Moog have included a neat little summing mixer. They have a single mono output on the back and various outputs via the patch bay for routing into Eurorack.
Neither the Mother-32 nor the DFAM has headphone outputs. Once it’s all together it makes for a neat little console-style workstation with everything you need within reach. For a more detailed look at the assembly check out my video at the bottom of the review. If you wish, you can mount the patch cable holder onto a wall or shelf if that’s more convenient. It’s a useful place to keep the 10 patch cables which are of three different lengths and is held in by the top pair of screws that hold the synths in the brackets. The “Patch cable tines” is a slightly odd way to describe a patch cable holder but I guess I understand what they’re getting at. With the factory also comes a bunch of cartoon cutout “friends” that lend themselves to creating a colourful Moog atmosphere around the synths. Along with the DFAM and Mother-32 you get a little summing mixer, patch cables, brackets for holding the synths, a “patch cable tines” which holds patch cables, manuals, a patching guide book, a poster and a pop-out Moog Mini Factory dice game for generating patching possibilities. The internal packaging is cleverly designed and you’re already feeling that a lot of thought went into this. It comes in a custom made and beautifully decorated box.
The Sound Studio bundle offers a bit of a classic bass and drums combo for everything from instant Techno to acidic motions, through ambient explorations and banging wobbles – you know the sort of thing. They both have patch bays to the right which open up all sorts of modulation and cross-synthesis possibilities. The DFAM or Drummer From Another Mother is a rhythmic percussion machine with 8 steps of pitch and velocity running 2 oscillators and noise in new and interesting ways. In case you haven’t come across them before the Mother-32 is a single oscillator analog monophonic synthesizer with a classic ladder filter, 32-step sequencer and mini keyboard. For this review Moog sent me the Mother-32 and DFAM Sound Studio and I’ll be talking about this bundle specifically although the concepts and contents (other than the synths) are identical for both. There are currently two versions: one with a Mother-32 and a DFAM, the other with a DFAM and a Subharmonicon.
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