Animoog, Moog's TEC-Award nominated synthesizer for the
iPad and iPhone, is creating cosmic harmonies with their Grateful Dead
Expansion Pack. This exclusive pack features 82 Presets and 45 Timbres
that were carefully extracted from the live recording and optimized so
you can create your very own dynamic Dead soundscape.
Mike Adams, Moog Music President and CEO said, “Two very important
legacies left by Bob Moog and his life's work were the idea of looking
at new technology and crafting new tools to enable musicians to make
music in new and inspiring ways, and also the importance of
collaborating with musicians to help shape those tools. This innovative
integration of textures from the Grateful Dead’s live recordings into
Animoog’s timbre library is a true manifestation of this legacy.”
The Grateful Dead Expansion Pack is broken into three categories:
ensemble, percussion and vocal sounds. In each case the timbres were
extracted from individual vocal performances, percussion hits or
instrument riffs performed during the Grateful Dead’s concert at the
Carousel Ballroom 44 years ago. The pack allows musicians today to
create dynamic soundscapes from the Dead’s rare and complex source
harmonic content originally performed decades ago.
Cyril Lance, Moog Music’s Chief Engineer explains, “We’re not simply
providing samples from the Grateful Dead's body of work, rather we’ve
distilled the essence of notes and phrases in a different way to
transform these performances into new instruments -- new voices. Now
we’ve made these unique voices available to artists in a way that
enables them to create their own music and voices based on this
fundamental essence.”
The Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart, who visited the Moog Factory on
April 19, 2012 to test the development of the Grateful Dead Expansion
Pack exclaimed, "Holy transmogrification, Batman… Amazing!" after
hearing the Grateful Dead’s 44-year-old recordings transformed into
sound design tools for artists.
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