CDM is reporting on a new iOS based Moog product called Filtatron, “an iPhone Filtering, Effects, and Sampling App”, basically Moogerfoogers on your phone. This is looking pretty amazing interface-wise; very true to the signature Moog aesthetic with the Little Phatty style rotary encoders and soft buttons. From a strictly user experience perspective this must have been a lot of fun to design. It will be interesting to see how it actually sounds compared to the real thing though — I’m going to take a wild guess and say it sounds nothing like a MoogerFooger. Software analog modeling is an imperfect art (or perhaps too perfect); it’s best to think of it as it’s own beast entirely than a faithful representation of the sonic characteristics of a true analog circuit. At any rate it’s interesting to see music technology makers pushing the capabilities of mobile devices. Software like this can may never replace analog hardware, but it would be nice to have the portability and power when you’re away from the studio, even if it comes with a healthy dose of compromise. See also: iRig
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The UI looks pretty badass though. I wonder how it sounds as well. Are there any demo videos floating around the ‘Net yet?
ok i never wanted an iphone, but now i do. plus i wanted to use that ghostly international app 🙂
hot.
BEAUTIFUL, crisp, clean interface!
Arrrg! When are they going to release these kind of apps for the droid?!
I want the Reason app, the Ghostly app, I think I was an ableton app and now this Moog app… all for the iPhone and no Droid love…
sad face
I just came. I hope it works with Ipod Touch.
I’d be tempted to own the app even though I have no reason to. Purely for the sake of its beauty.
Chris-
Yeah, I’d say Android is basically the Windows of the mobile device music app world. I’m PC on the desktop, and while we have a lot of interesting stuff that mac doesn’t, mac seems to always have the VST’s / DAWs with the slick interfaces.
Also, anything less than a retina display just wouldn’t do that interface up there justice. (yes, I bought the hype, but this time the hype was right, the iphone 4 display is incredible)
great interface, very clean
Yeah, I’m wanting something like this for Droid like yesterday.
I’ve buy it right now… it’s really cool and clean…i love moog and this interface it’s really great… CONGRATS Scott
If this is possible in Flash > http://audiotool.com/ I guess it’s matter of time we see all of our favorite audio apps online and on phones.