Most hardware music gear manufacturers must shake their fists like angry cartoon characters whenever they see emulations – or those approximations with weirdly similar names – of their gear being made by software developers. “I’ll get you, you little scamps,” they probably shout, as the young developers leap over the walls of the orchard, clutching stolen apples beneath their jerkins. Moog Music have taken a different approach. Rather than chasing those tikes from the software orchard (yes, we’ve gone too far with the analogy but can’t stop now) they’ve become them, emulating their own gear in software. And doing it bloody well…
And actually, Moog have been doing great software for some time, with much of its success on the iOS platform. There’s Animoog of course, plus the amazing Model 15 and Minimoog emulations, the latter of which got the perfect boost last month with an update that allows you to use it within macOS and any DAW with AUv3 compatibility. (30 bucks for a proper Minimoog – yes!).