Moog Music Muse

• 8-voice polyphonic
• 61-key touch-sensitive keyboard with aftertouch
• Pitch and modulation wheel
• Two discrete voice oscillators with mixable waveforms (triangle, sawtooth, square wave with adjustable pulse width), FM and Hard Sync
• Analog ring modulator and noise generator
• Modulation oscillator with 5 waveforms (sine wave, sawtooth, ramp, square wave, noise), keyboard tracking, audio or LFO operation and assignable modulation routing (pitch, filter, pulse width, VCA, panorama)
• Mixer with adjustable saturation
• Two Moog Ladder filters for vocals
• Two LFOs, two ADSR envelopes and separate pitch LFO
• Stereo delay
• Programmable macro controller
• Modulation matrix with 16 slots
• Extended arpeggiator and sequencer with up to 64 steps
• OLED screen

Moog Music Muse

Bi-timbral 8-voice polyphonic synthesizer

Moog Muse is an innovative eight-voice bi-timbric polyphonic synthesizer. Only the fourth polysynth produced by Moog over a period of nearly 5 decades, Muse best represents many years of engineering and design efforts.
Muse is an intuitive yet powerful instrument designed to be rugged and portable for touring use as well as the centerpiece of a modern production studio. With a deep history of analog synthesizers embedded in every corner of its voice architecture, Muse uses digital control for flexible modular functionality, patch memory recall, and advanced sequencing.

Muse is designed to grow with its user, from the first encounter with its knob panel for function and performance controls, through years of deep sound design and exploration. A 61-key semi-weighted Fatar keyboard with velocity and aftertouch, a programmable Macro knob, and two footswitch inputs provide Muse 's expressive control. The interactive Programmer
allows you to store and recall up to 256 patches and sequences giving you access to countless configuration parameters and performance-oriented customizations for Muse 's 18 modules. In addition, each patch is bi-timbric, with two completely independent synthesizer timbres that can be split on the keyboard, stacked and stacked together, and with voices assigned to both timbres via the Voice Control module.

Muse is not only an expressive analog polyphonic synthesizer, but a complete compositional workbench. An advanced Arpeggiator allows you to program rhythms, configure unique patterns, generate complete melodic ideas, and save arpeggiator configurations for each patch. A Complex Sequencer allows you to record sequences of up to 64 steps, assign each note to both timbres, and save the sequence in a bank of 256 total sequences. Each sequence exists independently of a patch, allowing patch changes on the fly within the same musical idea. Equipped with parameter recording, probabilistic functions and microscopic editing of every single note in the sequence, Muse 's sequencer is an endless playground for musical arrangements.

A powerful Modulation Map can store up to sixteen modulation paths per timbre, thirty-two per patch-each path has controller scaling and math functions. Two flexible global or per-voice LFOs with customizable waveforms, a dedicated pitch LFO, assignable envelopes, and 16 independent random voltage generators per voice provide a wide range of modulation sources. Input and output connectivity, both via MIDI and voltage control, allows Muse to be integrated into a studio of any size.

Features

SYNTHESIZER TYPE
Bi-timbral polyphonic analog synthesizer
SOUND ENGINE
Analog
POLYPHONY
8 voices
KEYBOARD
61 full-size Fatar semi-weighted keys with channel Velocity and Aftertouch
CONTROLLER
Pitch Wheel, Modulation Wheel, Macro Knob, Keyboard Octave switch, Hold switch, Sustain pedal input, Expression pedal input: all pedal functions are assignable
PANEL CONTROLS
44 knobs, 16 sliders, 129 buttons: OLED screen
VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED ANALOG OSCILLATORS
(x2) Selectable Triangle/Sawtooth mix, Variable width Pulse wave, Octave (16', 8', 4', 2'), Frequency (+/- 7 semitones), Wave Mix (blends Triangle/Sawtooth with Variable Pulse wave), FM routing and amount, Hard sync
ANALOG RING MODULATOR
Ring modulation between Oscillators 1 and 2
VOLTAGE CONTROLLED ANALOG MODULATION OSCILLATOR
Selectable waveform (sine, sawtooth, inverted sawtooth, square, noise), audio range switch, keyboard tracking, keyboard reset, unipolar switch, pitch modulation routing and amount, filter modulation routing and amount, pulse width modulation routing and amount, VCA modulation amount, panning switch
ANALOG NOISE GENERATOR
White noise
VOLTAGE CONTROLLED ANALOG MIXER
Independent level control for OSC 1, OSC 2, RING, MOD OSC and NOISE. General overload control
VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED ANALOG FILTERS
(x2) Moog transistor ladder filters (1 with high-pass/low-pass mode), Cut-off frequency, Resonance, KB tracking amount, Envelope amount, Linked operation, Routing (series,
parallel, stereo)
ENVELOPE
(x2) Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release, Variable curves per phase, Multi-trig, Loop, Velocity
VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED ANALOG AMPLIFIER
Volume per timbre, Position pan per timbre, Diffusion pan per timbre
DIFFUSION DELAY™
Configurable stereo signal processor, Left delay time, Right delay time, Feedback, Character, Mix, Analog bypass switches (to maintain 100% analog signal path)
OUTPUT SECTION
Master Volume, Headphone Volume, Low Cut EQ
LFO
(x2) Frequency, Amplitude, Waveform selection (Triangle, Sawtooth, Square, Sample-and-Hold, user customizable), keyboard reset
PITCHLFO
Rate, Ramp Down via Triangle for Ramp Up Shape control, One-Shot Envelope toggle, keyboard reset, routing and amount of pitch modulation
GLIDE
Selectable glide type (LCR, LCT, EXP), glide amount
CLOCK
Clock frequency, tap tempo
ARPEGGIATOR
For timbre with clock division, octave interval, pattern, direction, gate time, rhythmic programming, etc.
SEQUENCER
64-step sequencer with clock division, transport controls, sequence chaining, step editing, modulation capability and memory capacity of 16 banks of 16 sequences
PROGRAMMER
Browser via OLED screen with 16 banks of 16 patches, Mod Map, arpeggiator settings, sequencer with per-step settings, global settings, etc.
VOICE CONTROL
Mono or polyphonic voice count by timbre, Unison/Mono, Detune, Timbre change, Voice stealing configuration
MEMORY CHORD
Chord memory with per-key functionality
MOD MAP
16 modulation slots per timbre per patch with controller and mathematical transformation functions
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REAR PANEL
AUDIO OUTPUTS.
Main Left, Main Right (1⁄4" TRS)
HEADPHONES
1⁄4" stereo (located on the front edge of the left controller)
PEDAL INPUTS
Sustain, Expression (1⁄4" TRS; configurable via Mod Map or for use as 1⁄4" TS CV inputs)
CONTROL VOLTAGE INPUTS
CV IN 1, CV IN 2 (1/8" TS)
CONTROL VOLTAGE OUTPUTS
CV OUT 1, CV OUT 2 (1/8" TS)
ANALOG CLOCK INPUT
CLOCK IN (1/8" TS)
ANALOG CLOCK OUTPUT
CLOCK OUT (1/8" TS)
MIDI
5 Pin DIN MIDI IN, OUT, THRU; MIDI to USB
USB B
USB-B connector for interfacing with a computer or other MIDI host device
USB A (HOST)
USB-A connector for connecting to other instruments with Muse as MIDI host
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POWER SUPPLY
STYLE
IEC cable
INPUT
100 - 240 V AC; 50 Hz - 60 Hz
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WEIGHT
14.55 (kg), 32 (lbs.)
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DIMENSIONS
(W x D x H): 99 x 42 x 11 (cm), 39 x 17 x 4.5 (inches)