![]() Superficially, the dual oscillators on the Sub 37 are similar to those of the Sub Phatty. A small screen suggests that there are still some parameters to be found in menus, but even a quick glance reveals that all its major facilities should fall immediately to hand. Physically, it’s based around a velocity- and pressure-sensitive three-octave keyboard and, with its steel chassis and wooden end-cheeks, plus a control panel that bristles with knobs and buttons, it looks and feels like a ‘real’ synth. The Sub 37 is an analogue/digital hybrid with an analogue signal path controlled by digitally generated modulators and contour generators. Again, it seems that I wasn’t the only one thinking along those lines, because this brings us to the present day and the Sub 37, which draws upon the technology of the Voyager, the Minitaur and the Sub Phatty, and seems to offer everything that I hoped it might. So I suggested that a Sub Phatty with a wider keyboard and everything revealed on the control panel would be a fine instrument, especially if it sported additional performance capabilities such as aftertouch. I rather liked this, but was unable to recommend it unequivocally because of its short keyboard and profusion of hidden functions, some of which could only be accessed using arcane combinations of key-presses or the associated software editor. Reviewing it in May of that year, I commented that “it seems obvious that the Minitaur would sing as a lead synth too”, and the chaps at Moog must have agreed, because the next stage was the Sub Phatty, which took the character of the Minitaur and transplanted it into a diminutive keyboard synth. In 2012, Moog released the Minitaur, a bass module that, sonically, sat somewhere between the Taurus 3 and the Little Phatty. Next came the Voyager Old School, followed by the excellent Taurus 3 bass pedals, and then the Voyager XL which, prior to the launch of the Emerson Moog Modular earlier this year, was the reincarnated Moog’s finest moment - a synth of such inherent sexiness that it’s sometimes hard to stop admiring it and begin playing it. ![]() I wasn’t a huge fan but, despite my reservations, I have to admit that others were. Of course, this affordability came at a price (if you see what I mean) that was paid not so much in its sound but, in large part, in its unusual parameter-access programming system. Then, in 2006, Moog changed direction by releasing the Little Phatty, which cost less than half the price of its illustrious sibling. Hot on its heels came the Performer Edition and, in 2004, another limited edition, the Anniversary model. Released in the UK in 2003, it wasn’t quite finished, but was quickly followed by numerous updates to operating system and hardware that sorted out its shortcomings. Once reborn from their Big Briar incarnation, Moog Music’s first synth was the Minimoog Voyager Signature Edition, which immediately garnered a cult following. This editor works on the Clavia Nord Lead 2/2x model(s) only! See our other editors for the Nord Lead and Nord Lead 3 models.Moog’s latest synth, the Sub 37, sees the company return to the form that made their reputation back in the 1970s. Load up all your old libraries and recraft them with visible control! ![]() Now available is the ability to save and load your patches to and from the editor in the native, standard sysex format. All parameters are fully automatable and you can even use your favorite VST host (see Host Support page), This ability to model your synth patches in realtime, inside your main music production environment is part of what makes the VST Lead2 Editor unique when compared to other hardware synth editors. You also maintain all your patches on the computer itself without the hassle of manual dumps. Control your Nord from within your DAW to build lasting and meaningful patches that will bring new life to your Nord, and more importantly, your music. The VST Lead2 Editor is a realtime MIDI synth editor that allows you full control of every sound shaping parameter found on the Clavia Nord Lead 2 rack and keyboard synthesizers.
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