PROPOSED LETTER TO MOOG MUSIC. Feel free to suggest improvements or corrections, and most of all, feel free to ADD YOUR NAME! Dear Mr. Adams, Your letter concerning the Theremini has been widely read in the theremin community. The undersigned are delighted to hear you say that Moog Music will continue to improve the Thereminis playability and feature set over time based on user feedback. We have taken the liberty to offer our feedback below: POSITIVE FEATURES 1. The concept of an entry-level theremin is a great one! 2. Nice design. 3. USB interface for firmware updates. 4. The sound engine (Animoog) and external MIDI input for modulating all of the built-in preset parameters. 5. MIDI and CV options are great. The sound engine is very simple but sounds great (wouldnt hurt to upgrade to a more powerful engine though). AREAS NEEDING IMPROVEMENT 1. There is a loud popping noise (in both speaker and line out) when the instrument is turned on/off and a crackling noise in the speaker when changing presets. 2. The manual describes functions that are not present in the current version of the instrument. 3. Latency or lag: the time between a player moving his hand and his/her hearing the effect of the move should be at most less than ten milliseconds, preferably a lot less. 4. Aliasing or glitching: moving the pitch hand rapidly through the pitch field does not always produce a smooth, continuous change in pitch, as it should; sometimes it steps abruptly from one pitch to another without playing the pitches between them. 5. Linearity: this could be significantly improved in software with minimal processing requirements. Or a better pitch antenna circuit. Ideally, both. 6. The instrument should be available in a left-handed version. 7. The tuning/calibration process of the device is much too long. Compared to a real theremin that has one dial to change the pitch calibration (in a split second), there is a very time consuming menu system that requires multiple button presses and dialing/diving through a menu system requiring a few minutes of time. Also, the repeated requirement to move the body to near and far points to set the maximum and minimum pitch thresholds in turn results in zero certainty of repeatability from session to session. 8. The front end pitch oscillator circuit of the device should have ElectroStatic Discharge protection. We would be happy to answer any questions or provide any clarifications of the above. We share with you the excitement of the notion of a theremin for the beginning player. Thank you for taking the time to read our suggestions! Sincerely, Jon Bernhardt Gordon Charlton Randy George James Hendrik Olivia Mattis Jesper Pedersen Anthony Ptak WHO ELSE?
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 21:14:22 +0000
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