Once a week , createdigitalmusic‘s Peter Kirn checks in with oddities and essentials that make musicians drool . This calendar week , he ’s found the Mac Mini masquerade as a vintage synth and a vintage synth that ’s made its way into the digital age .
Despite all this novel digital music technology , vintage analogue circuitry is more pop than ever . find the custom , all musicMac Mini - in - a - Boxfrom Cyndustries [ viaMusic Thing ] . Within days of Apple ’s announcement of Apple ’s new headless Mac , these instrument designers were already working on a design to couple the Mac ’s digital audio big businessman with vintage analog oscillator and filters . Music geek will make love the Moog - panache knobs and cablegram , with gouge between uninterrupted parallel voltages and digital MIDI and sound . Add a speck - screen , movie house - wide LCD and this is unfeignedly a married couple of two generations . Sure , the G4 bogs down a mo run Apple Logic , but with custom configurations Cyndustries will stack as many Minis in there as you want ! US$ 1000 + ( estimated ) ; call to custom order .
Also of involvement to geeks , Moog Music , manufacturers of the first successful commercial synth some four decades ago , continue to regain beloved in studios and onstage . Their newrack - mounted Voyager[pictured top ] has the analogue sound , great - feel knobs ( optional ) wood - paneled boundary of its predecessors , and some things vintage synths did n’t have , like an galvanising - blue backlit screenland and digital - analog intercrossed sounds . US$ 2195 .
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