Animoog is a music synth

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designed for

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, iPhone and

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. Animoog is powered by

Moog Music Moog Music Inc. () is an American synthesizer company based in Asheville, North Carolina. It was founded in 1953 as R. A. Moog Co. by Robert Moog and his father and was renamed Moog Music in 1972. Its early instruments included the Moog synthesi ...

's Anisotropic Synthesis Engine.

Description

There are three versions of Animoog. Animoog for the

is simply named 'Animoog'. 'Animoog for iPhone', which offers different features and layout, works on iPhones and the iPod Touch. There also is a third version named 'Animoog for Blackberry', built for the

. Animoog comes with tens of varied sound presets. Over 3,100 Animoog presets and 5,100 timbres are also available throug
official and user-provided expansion packs
Expansion packs include work from acclaimed

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ers, such as

Richard Devine Richard Devine is an Atlanta-based electronic musician and sound designer. He is recognized for producing a layered and heavily processed sound, combining influences from glitch music to old and modern electronic music. Devine largely records for ...

Drew Neumann Drew Neumann is an American musician and composer of film and television scores. He created the soundtrack of the science fiction animated series ''Æon Flux'', and has composed music for many other shows, including ''The Wild Thornberrys'', '' B ...

Sascha Dikiciyan Sascha Dikiciyan, known professionally as Sonic Mayhem, is a German game musician, producer and professional sound designer of Armenian origin, who has produced the soundtrack for ''Quake II'', ''Tomorrow Never Dies'' and '' Hellgate: London'', ...

and Adam Holzman. A set of 82 official presets, available as

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, are derived from a 1968 live recording of the

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's ''

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'' album. Animoog won a

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in early 2013 with the mention of being "Expressive, Captivating and Sonically Immersive". Animoog is also the sound engine at the core of the Theremini, a modern

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built by Moog.

References

External links

Animoog product page from Moog Music site

Animoog.org
community-oriented Animoog website * Officia
Moog Apps forum
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Description

See also

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