Moog Sonic Six
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Sonic Six
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| Manufacturer | Moog Music |
| Dates | 1972 - 1979 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Polyphony | 2 |
| Oscillator | 2 |
| LFO | 2 |
| Synthesis type | Analog Subtractive |
| Filter | low-pass |
| Attenuator | ADS or ADR |
| Storage memory | none |
| Effects | none |
| Input/output | |
| Keyboard | 49 keys |
| External control | CV/Gate |
The Moog Sonic Six is a duophonic analog synthesizer that was manufactured by Moog Music from 1972 to 1979. Because of its portable design and built-in speaker, the Sonic Six was widely used for lectures and educational purposes, often by Bob Moog himself.
The Sonic Six is the result of Bill Waytena, then the owner of synthesizer manufacturer Musonics, acquiring R.A. Moog Inc. Interested in the marketing opportunity afforded by the Moog name, Waytena acquired R.A. Moog Inc., moved the company to Buffalo, New York, and renamed it Moog/Musonics (which eventually was shortened to simply Moog Music). It was under this new brand that a new version of the Musonics Sonic V was released as the Moog Music Sonic Six.
The Sonic Six is mounted in its own briefcase; the upper control panel folds and latches over the keyboard to ease transportation and storage. This feature was used by a number of synthesizer manufacturers of the time, however the Sonic Six was Moog Music's only product that incorporated this into its design. The Sonic Six is also the only Moog synthesizer that featured built-in speakers rather than requiring the user to use an external amplifier.
The Sonic Six features two VCOs with changeable waveform (sawtooth, triangle, square, pulse), one low-pass VCF, a VCA, two multimode LFOs for modulation and a 49-note keyboard.
The Sonic Six is a two-oscillator duophonic synth. It can be set for duophonic, (two notes at a time... one oscillator takes high-note priority and one oscillator takes low note priority), monophonic (both oscs), or monophonic with a drone (one osc changes pitch, one does not). Available waveshapes are pulse (variable), saw, and triangle. The pitch of each oscillator can be controlled by dual LFO, one by contour, and the other by the other oscillator. One can adjust the temperament of the Sonic Six to play scales that have less than 12 notes per octave. The Sonic Six also features pink or white noise.
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