Moog Taurus

Saturday Synth Porn: Here are a few more shots, via Sweetwater, of the new Moog Taurus III bass pedals.

Synth Porn Saturday: The Moog Taurus III Bass Pedals in all their glory.

Click on the image to get the full-screen HD surround-sound photo of this droolworthy butt-shaker.

Moog’s selling these for 2K. Check the big photo and you’ll see why it’s going to be worth it. Read more…

This is a quick demo video of the Moog Taurus bass synthesizer.

If you’ve used the Moog Taurus bass pedal synthesizer, leave a comment with your thoughts! Read more…

2009 NAMM Show: Moog Music made the NAMM announcement of its plans to bring back the rare Taurus Bass Pedal in a limited edition

The new edition of this classic bass synth will reproduce the Taurus I sound engine, but combine it with modern features.

The image on the right shows Moog senior engineer, Cyril Lance, “extracting the Taurus DNA” from an original Taurus I.

Taurus Bass Pedals have been used by Rush, The Police, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Phil Collins, Asia, Weezer, and many more. Read more…

Moog Music has announced that it’s bringing back a limited edition run of the Moog Taurus Bass Pedal.

These have been used on thousands of classic recordings, especially prog-rock of the 70’s. 

According to Moog, the most important aspect of the design is to reproduce the original Taurus I sound-engine as faithfully as possible. I’ve included Retrosound’s video of the original Moog Taurus bass pedals above. 

Features:

• 100% Analog Sound Engine based entirely on original TAURUS I circuits
• “Taurus I” style (one and half octaves on the floor)
• 2 VCO Oscillators, ADS Contour Generator, 1 VCF Filter, Output VCA
• PRESETS: 16 Banks x 4 presets = 48 Total Programmable Bass Sounds
• BANK 0 will contains the Original Taurus I Presets: VAR, TAURUS, TUBA, BASS
• MIDI: DIN and USB, Merging and Routing
• ARPEGGIATOR: MIDI Sync, TAP TEMPO, Internal
• CV Inputs: VOLUME, FILTER, PITCH, GATE

This is another trip down memory lane for Moog – but it’s still a very cool announcement. 

The price is $1999, $1695 for the first 250 buyers. 

This is sure to be a new analog classic. Let me know if you think you might drop the cash on the new Taurus bass pedals! Read more…