Moog Muse Polyphonic Synthesizer

Eight-voice bi-timbral polyphonic synthesizer

Moog Muse is an innovative eight-voice bi-timbral polyphonic synthesizer. Only the fourth polysynth produced by Moog in a period of nearly 5 decades, Muse best represents many years of engineering and design efforts.

Muse is an intuitive yet powerful instrument, designed to be robust and portable for touring use, as well as to be the centerpiece of a modern production studio. With a deep history of analog synthesizers embedded in every corner of its voice architecture, Muse uses digital control for flexible modular functionality, patch memory recall, and advanced sequencing.

Muse is designed to grow with its user, from the first encounter with its knob-per-function panel and performance controls, through years of deep sound design and exploration. A Fatar semi-weighted 61-key keyboard with velocity and aftertouch, a programmable Macro knob, and two pedal inputs for expressive control of Muse. The interactive Programmer allows

you to store and recall up to 256 patches and sequences giving you access to countless configuration parameters and performance-oriented customizations for Muse's 18 modules. Moreover, each patch is bi-timbral, with two completely independent synthesizer timbres that can be split across the keyboard, stacked and layered together, and with voices assigned to both timbres via the Voice Control module.

Muse is not just an expressive analog polyphonic synthesizer, but a complete compositional workstation. An advanced Arpeggiator allows you to program rhythms, configure unique patterns, generate complete melodic ideas, and save arpeggiator configurations for each patch. A sophisticated Sequencer allows you to record sequences up to 64 steps, assign each note to both timbres, and save the sequence in a bank of 256 total sequences. Each sequence exists independently from a patch, allowing patch switching on the fly within the same musical idea. Equipped with parameter recording, probabilistic functions, and microscopic editing of every single note in the sequence, Muse's sequencer is an infinite playground for musical arrangements.

A powerful Modulation Map can store up to sixteen modulation paths per timbre, thirty-two per patch – each path is equipped with controller scaling and mathematical functions. Two flexible global or per-voice LFOs with customizable waveforms, a dedicated Pitch LFO, assignable envelopes and 16 independent random voltage generators per voice provide a wide range of modulation sources. Connectivity on inputs and outputs, both via MIDI and control voltage, enables you to integrate Muse into a studio of any size.

Specifications

• SYNTHESIZER TYPE: Bi-timbral polyphonic analog synthesizer
• SOUND ENGINE: Analog
• POLYPHONY: 8 voices
• KEYBOARD: 61 Fatar semi-weighted full-size keys with Velocity and Channel Aftertouch
• CONTROLLER: Pitch Wheel, Modulation Wheel, Macro Knob, Keyboard Octave switch, Hold switch, Sustain pedal input, Expression pedal input: all pedal functions are assignable
• PANEL CONTROLS: 44 knobs, 16 faders, 129 buttons: OLED screen
• VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED ANALOG OSCILLATORS: (x2) Selectable Triangle/Sawtooth Mix, variable-width Pulse wave, Octave (16', 8', 4', 2'), Frequency (+/- 7 semitones), Wave Mix (blends Triangle/Sawtooth with variable Pulse wave), FM routing and amount, Hard sync
• ANALOG RING MODULATOR: Ring modulation between Oscillators 1 and 2
• VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED ANALOG MODULATION OSCILLATOR: Selectable waveforms (sine, sawtooth, inverted sawtooth, square, noise), audio range switch, keyboard tracking, keyboard reset, unipolar switch, pitch modulation routing and amount, filter modulation routing and amount, pulse width modulation routing and amount, VCA modulation amount, panning switch
• ANALOG NOISE GENERATOR: White noise
• VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED ANALOG MIXER: Independent level control for OSC 1, OSC 2, RING, MOD OSC and NOISE. General overload control
• VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED ANALOG FILTERS: (x2) Moog ladder transistor filters (1 with highpass/lowpass mode), Cutoff frequency, Resonance, KB tracking amount, Envelope amount, Linked operation, Routing (series,
• parallel, stereo)
• ENVELOPE: (x2) Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release, variable curves per stage, Multi-trig, Loop, Velocity
• VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED ANALOG AMPLIFIER: Volume per timbre, Pan position per timbre, Pan spread per timbre
• DIFFUSION DELAY™: Configurable stereo signal processor, Left delay time, Right delay time, Feedback, Character, Mix, analog bypass switches (to maintain 100% analog signal path)
• OUTPUT SECTION: Master volume, Headphone volume, Low Cut EQ
• LFO
• (x2) Frequency selection, amplitude, waveform (triangle, sawtooth, square, Sample-and-Hold, user-customizable), PITCH LFO keyboard reset
• Rate, Ramp Down via Triangle for Ramp Up shape control, One-Shot Envelope toggle, keyboard reset, pitch modulation routing and amount
• GLIDE: Selectable glide type (LCR, LCT, EXP), glide amount
• CLOCK: Clock frequency, Tap Tempo
• ARPEGGIATOR: Per timbre with clock division, octave range, pattern, direction, gate time, rhythmic programming, etc.
• SEQUENCER: 64-step sequencer with clock division, transport controls, sequence chaining, step editing, modulation capability and memory capacity of 16 banks of 16 sequences
• PROGRAMMER: Browser via OLED screen with 16 banks of 16 patches, Mod Map, arpeggiator settings, sequencer with step settings, global settings, etc.
• VOICE CONTROL: Mono or polyphonic voice count per timbre, Unison/Mono, Detune, Timbre edit, Voice stealing configuration
• MEMORY CHORD: Chord memory with key-based functionality
• MOD MAP: 16 modulation slots for timbre per patch with controller and mathematical transformation functions
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• REAR PANEL
• AUDIO OUTPUTS: Main Left, Main Right (1⁄4" TRS)
• HEADPHONES: 1⁄4" Stereo (located on front edge of left controller)
• PEDAL INPUTS: Sustain, Expression (1⁄4" TRS; configurable via Mod Map or for use as 1⁄4" TS CV inputs)
• CONTROL VOLTAGE INPUTS: CV IN 1, CV IN 2 (1/8" TS)
• CONTROL VOLTAGE OUTPUTS: CV OUT 1, CV OUT 2 (1/8" TS)
• ANALOG CLOCK INPUT: CLOCK IN (1/8" TS)
• ANALOG CLOCK OUTPUT: CLOCK OUT (1/8" TS)
• MIDI: 5 Pin DIN MIDI IN, OUT, THRU; MIDI over USB
• USB B: USB-B Connector for interfacing with a computer or other MIDI host device
• USB A (HOST): USB-A Connector for connection to other instruments with Muse as MIDI host
• POWER
• STYLE: IEC Cable
• INPUT: 100 – 240 V AC; 50 Hz – 60 Hz
• WEIGHT: 14.55 (kg), 32 (lbs)
• DIMENSIONS: (W x D x H): 99 x 42 x 11 (cm), 39 x 17 x 4.5 (in)