Labyrinth is Unlike any other Moog...

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Superb video. Wonderfully done. 🖤

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@LisaBellaDonnaMusic very high praise, thanks for watching!

[@joshuachristie5904]

You explained the relationships between the modules better than anyone I’ve seen yet, and made bangers throughout. Thanks man!

[@GeorgeL909]

I love these videos. It just seems like you're having so much fun exploring and figuring out the machine and I admire that. The labyrinth does seem like an industrial monster though, and I'm very attracted to it. The wave folding *chef's kiss*

[@jkanizzle]

First video I've seen with tones that grabbed me. Thank you!

[@JorbLovesGear]

Happy to do it, cheers

[@andrewdoucet3029]

Thanks for this, Jorb. I appreciate that you started the overview with the sequencer-it actually really made clear to me what this thing does, and as a result makes this the best video I have seen about this thing. Nice work cutting straight to the “heart” of the beast! Thanks!

[@jimmy_jamesjams_a_lot4171]

I think you did a splendid breakdown. Especially how you tackled the sequencer before the rest of it. That sequencer, without being open to input from the user to specify definite notes, truly deserves the ‘generative’ label. Seems more fun than the DFAM, and I haven’t heard much praise for Spectravox. I love those tones and the filter can be shaped which is cool. Thank you for sharing about this unique synth!!

[@nkozi]

New Jorb New Jorb New Jorb

[@JorbLovesGear]

babe wake up new me just dropped

[@Take8Recordings]

@@JorbLovesGear grounds for divorce and I’m totally taking sides

[@OscillatorSink]

This is the sort of thing that I like. (The synth and Jorb talking about the synth).

[@newYorkStories]

such a beautiful thing. It's like the Subharmonicon on LSD

[@LaymensLament]

i fucking hope theres a minitaur in this labyrinth

[@JorbLovesGear]

in the sense that theres a beast to chase you around : yeah its finding good notes.

[@OysteinWiikMyrseth]

😅

[@Qwiv]

That costs extra.

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

I do believe that's a guaranteed !

[@hakonberg8003]

😂😂😂

[@djchilxxn]

great jorb! thoroughly enjoyed it, actually the best video i've seen on this fun toy yet, thank you! glad I ordered mine two days ago, less time to wait to try it out!

[@tuc5987]

Love me a good Jorb ramble ( the parts in between are also nice)

[@Oyasoom]

Nice demo and as someone else already stated, most appealing sounds out there (exception maybe from Andrew Huang x Undulae EP but it is heavily processed) Love the morphing blend of sin/tri you made at 20:40

[@mattkellam7274]

Thank you for this comprehensive Labyrinth field guide - well done!

[@iancain6647]

Jorb. Always enjoy your videos bro.

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@iancain6647 🫡🙏🙏

[@aloraliquid]

This bit of kit is actually quite inspired. Really digging it for potential use in my music production :) Killer video as always Jorb! Thank you for all your thoroughness and commentary! Greatly appreciated always 💜

[@foxincyansox]

Hey Jorb, amazing video! I was on the fence about buying one of these, but this definitely sold me on it. However it was bit more expensive than I was prepared for, so I won't be to afford my medication 😕

[@Jin-Hu]

The most interesting feature to me is the Turing/shifters element, would you say it’s similar to Phazervilles DualTM in Ornament and Crime fw?

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@Jin-Hu I don't know dualtm super well, but the most unique part of the Labyrinth is assigning each bit it's own pitch / voltage, instead of using the whole byte to define the output. I mention that in the description

[@noenduringcity]

Best explanations of Labyrinth! Thank you!

[@ReuterJunior76]

How do you achieve the Acid Sound of your 1st voice at 28:00 min? Simple envelope into filter cv? 0-8V? 0-10V? -5+5V? I‘m about to purchase it the 2nd time. Best Video on the topic.

[@JorbLovesGear]

Yes, sawtooth from the ona into the labyrinth filter

[@markparker4362]

Hi Great walk though, as always! Best review and explanation Ive seen so far 👌 Love your waveform screen btw, can you confirm the make and model? Thanks

[@voxmnemonic]

Great video as always man!

[@camphabenero]

You have reinforced my decision to get a scope . Awesome explanation!

[@els1f]

Keeping the triggers but changing the cv is a really cool take on the turing machine!

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@els1f totally agree, it's mega flexible

[@Qwiv]

Seams like every one of these Moog semi mods gets me just copying it with other Euro as a patch and making it better, like getting all those outputs you wanted. It’s nice to have Droid to make the interface and all these functions already out there in Euro. Thanks Moog for the 500 patch idea. Wa hard to copy the Subharmonicon because of the 6 oscillators, but this one is easy to recreate. Yes, he fist one costs more to recreate, but my rack is equipped enough now to make this from scratch and anything else moog obsessed our way….

[@garvinkelly]

it is similar to my modular setup. I almost always use the quad turing machine in O_C module to generate random looping quantized cv. So fun to jam with and layer with drums

[@alexandermontagnet3361]

Excellent video! Do you think this synth is a great next synth to add to the Mother-32, DFAM, and Sunharmonicon trio? I also have a 104hp eurorack case filled with utilities, clocking, and modulation for the Mother-32, DFAM, and Subharmonicon. Would this be a great addition to that trio (Sound Studio) and if it would play well with it? I have the ONA as well as an extra voice. Added the FONT as the filter.

[@smartbart015]

Great video! About the 'swing trick'. I was planning to send a midi clock signal from Ableton to the Labyrinth, but that won't give me any swing (of course). Do you know any other 'swing tricks' for people who don't own any other Eurorack gear? Thanks

[@M4NNHEIM]

I bought a Mother-32 for an ambient modular setup I'm building, and I love it--but damn this video for making it clear the Labyrinth is the Norma to my Big Ed. Great video as always. It would be a sin to put joining your Patreon off any longer.

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@M4NNHEIM would be a really really good pair

[@harrisonbreshears4324]

Using this reference for any piece of gear I want to replace now.

[@SomeOne-pd6vm]

the mother 32 is lovely. when you combine it with another low pass filter, you get a chance to truly appreciate its high pass. the high pass filter on the mother 32 is special in the way it does a poor job at being a high pass when the resonance is turned up. the way it works is that it's actually using the low pass filter, and phase inverting it against the original signal. when the resonance is turned up, the phase of the signal being passed through the filter changes, thus reducing the effectiveness of the high pass. ironically, if you make it track the keyboard, it can greatly enhance the bass as you can turn the resonance up and really highlight the fundamental or the second/third harmonic without losing the low end or high end. however, it's largely impossible to appreciate without an additional low pass as it's still fundamentally a subtractive synth whose oscillators need to be sculpted in the high end.

[@jimlampshady]

Nice 1 fella. Looks like Moog have made an absolute beast and I want one. Your hack to make the sequencers swing was interesting, but were they not actually just triplets?

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

Mesmerizing Outro !

[@AaronFoltz]

The Moog Klang Machine. I'm here for it.

[@dEadnAstyrEcords]

Finally, someone who gets this thing. With midi, has anyone heard if there will be updates to features, and maybe a plug-in editor like Minitaur has?

[@JorbLovesGear]

i dont know what the editor could even change, probably just sequence steps? Minitaur is digital control of analog circuits, so can control via midi. WIth labyrinth, most of the panel controls are straight up analog.

[@dEadnAstyrEcords]

@@JorbLovesGear Ah. Well, limitations create moments of invention. We're already playing with moog synths without a folder, as a Buchla, with interesting results. Just to see what's possible. Stop for a listen.

[@510th]

Hmm great explanations of this unit. Thanks! pretty sweet for a single desktop unit, compact and fun. Gj moog o_O For those of us that have a lot of eurorack modules… what would re-create this… seems the sequencer is the only thing that would take some logic modules and finesse… the rest of it is just making sure every module has cv control over every function… 2 vcos, a wave folder, vca, vcf(s) maybe 2 mixers, atten/invert, old sub ring module ;] I’ll see what I can muster up- cheers

[@BullyMaguire4ever]

I would probably want to sequence only the wave folder and filter and control the Oscillators with external sequencer or send external audio through. Not really interested in random melodies.

[@alexandermontagnet3361]

Is that the Nano Modules eurorack case?

[@klstay]

Seriously scratching my head as to why anyone with a decent modular rig would ever get this instead of any of the more capable generative sequencer modules. Anyone without such a rig will not get nearly the full potential out of it again leaving me scratching my head as to why they would get one. In any case to each their own and for those enjoying it 👍.

[@roszyknuke]

I scratch my head wondering why anyone would spend $5000 on a MiniMoog but some do.. To each their own indeed.

[@pizza_yumyum]

good Jo(r)b 🙂

[@airwindows]

That's incredible. That's all the stuff I'd want to do…

[@GoldToni-z2t]

this will go nicely with my Xenophone Synth

[@jamesburke2311]

JORB! Hope those 3 hours go by quickly

[@JorbLovesGear]

HA thank you I'm breaking my fast already

[@drippydroopy7052]

Is it possible the sequencer randomly adds in higher octaves as well?

[@RJ1J]

A bit too much distortion going on for me, covers up the sound of the unit. Love that you've got a saw wave going, although the cost is too high for me. Very metallic sounding machine without it. What kind of filter is it? A ladder filter? I am guessing so. Do you lose a lot of bass? The filter and the residents sound amazing.

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@RJ1J wavefolding can sound harsh, without it or the mixer drive it would all be low harmonic waves. 2 pole, but I'm not sure of the exact architecture. Presumably a ladder, man I can't believe I didn't mention that.

[@PWMaarten]

I don’t get the seq amount knobs in the VCO circuit. These could be switches, IMO. There are already attenuators next to the sequencer LED’s.

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@PWMaarten is a lot more flexible when you can modulate them but not at V/octave. Maybe an osc is patched as an lfo, and you are just changing its rate per step. Etc etc etc

[@PWMaarten]

@@JorbLovesGear fair enough, I retract my previous statement. For modulation purposes the attenuator makes perfect sense. Edit: I never replied this fast!

[@stannylou1636]

Is it Poly or mono? Great content

[@marleenvos4126]

Very interesting machine, I wish I had the time to spend with it to justify buying it

[@macaronafterparty]

this or the Voltage Lab 2?

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@macaronafterparty im partial to the openness of the vl2, and the depth of the sequencer isn't intimidating to me. If those don't appeal to you, labyrinth is great for generative stuff

[@Take8Recordings]

Would you rather have a decent house or a huge house

[@johnathantyrer6077]

I just snapped one up and I’m new to even semi modular ,can SEQ 1 CV output connect to my behringer 101 and play the sequence from the labyrinth on the 101 ? Thanks

[@leftmono1016]

Patch it and try it 👍

[@synthnerd4539]

This intro to the Labyrinth is more than just a minor tour... 👀

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@synthnerd4539 can't help but go deep 😅😭

[@synthnerd4539]

@@JorbLovesGear Go deep enough, you might get a PhD Theseus out of it. I'll stop now.

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

Clever cookie ,-

[@MichaelDowComposer]

It's nice! Thanks for the video! What osciloscope are you using? Been after one for a while, looks like a good one

[@lundsweden]

I don't need this, I'm doing okay with my Hypemaster-5000, thank you.

[@CVinyl]

What is a hypemaster 5000 ?

[@monco]

Very nice.

[@Tiger.Arcade]

Great vid Jorb for something fundamentally difficult to describe 😂

[@defjeff2907]

Would someone make a Bowie meme with this already! Thanks Jorb!

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@defjeff2907 I can't believe I didn't do that, I'm such a puppet guy

[@entropybentwhistle]

As long as you don’t get turned into The Prince of the Pit Of Stench, it’s all good.

[@chetplease]

very nice musical examples

[@Waldemar_la_Tendresse]

The device seems to me to be the ideal FM injector for the Matriarch. It's a very interesting device, but it's a shame that Moog didn't take advantage of the obvious opportunities here. The sequencer in particular could have been much more useful if switches had been used instead of LEDs for the individual steps. This would have made it possible to leave individual steps unchangeable in generative mode while others would be prone to mutation.

[@DVDFRMN]

The reason i like Jorb is that he uses the word Jam as a verb, as it should be...

[@DoctorRevers]

Nice job man. Great overview. Very cool machine.

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@DoctorRevers thank you! Yeah I think it's great

[@Ian-gw2vx]

At 6:40 I can hear the beginning of Force Majeure by Tangerine Dream

[@snörre23]

Thats what i spent about 20 K on eurorack for, doing basically this. And still i think i would use this more.

[@rafaelgarciamoreno8089]

eurorack forever and ever jeejjeje 🎛🎚🎚🎚🎛🎛🎛🎛🎛🎛🎛🎚🎚🎛🎛🎚🎚🎛🎚🎚🎛🎚🎹🎹🎹

[@marcel_holdys]

Last demo just took me out from my couch ,somewhere...

[@brandonaikin5445]

Great review! I kinda want one.

[@dynatwenty]

that scope is Hainbach level dude :D what is that ? :D :D :D The Lab. is pretty interesting, but not an instant hot buy i think.

[@mynewcolour]

Clocking with an Osc 😱 He must be stopped.

[@ManCalledMif]

I can see the power of Labyrinth. The open minded part of me likes it, but the nostalgia-motivated side of me, not so much. Hmmm.

[@madscientistlife]

This yahoo is just messing around with high end analog synthesizers talking like he figured something out... And I love it. God bless

[@Goettel]

Cool but not €600 cool.

[@DendriticFractals]

It's for the types who don't like playing notes in real time at all

[@leftmono1016]

⁠@@DendriticFractals- playing in real time is fine but not always as creative as this.

[@pooshNchums]

Watched a demo of a Moog. Why do I have an urge to configure a Dell pc?

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@pooshNchums 😭😭 same

[@wesmincic6462]

Corrupt is love, corrupt is life

[@clrs6576]

😃😃😃😃

[@tron944]

Who else won the SynthSamurai “Who would review the Moog Labyrinth first ” Bingo?! 😂

[@jessetoews2446]

🤘🌸🤘

[@AgonalRhythm]

#freejorb

[@JorbLovesGear]

Let him synthesize

[@colinodea2407]

Just one save tho. Why ?

[@JorbLovesGear]

I agree, that's a miss

[@MarcasLancaster]

Moog came back from the dead with this.

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@MarcasLancaster we got the spectravox not that long ago, and the mavis before that... They were hardly "dead"

[@MarcasLancaster]

@@JorbLovesGear I meant in terms of relevance to myself.

[@DanJanTube]

Why do I want this? I have no idea how it would fit into my setup

[@Rexmex5296]

I didn’t really like this synth for some reason. I don’t really know what it does. They all say it’s a percussion synth yet all I hear are melodies. 32 or mother can probably do that

[@formersea]

You don’t have to route the CV from the sequencers to pitch- just use it to modulate other parameters. The sequencing and modulating routing is what this synth is about (same with dfam and subharm imo). What it “does” is really up to you.

[@rafaelgarciamoreno8089]

Hello, you can't do it with mother-32 or with dfam or subharmonicon or spectravox, this synthesis is FM type with carrier and modulator and a wavefolder, you can do percussion or not, like in any synthesizer, but FM synthesis only does laberynth, increases the sound palette a lot, greetings

[@glottis5]

w2c the dell shirt

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@glottis5 thrifted sorry fam

[@jurikonradi8941]

Great sounds, I undersood almost nothing

[@lockyp204]

This model has piqued my interest more than any other in the series.

[@stephenparry6811]

So it appears the marketing gurus have dropped another "inexpensive"moog onto the gaggle of reviewers from loopop to jorb to push that moog vibe

[@isocarboxazid]

"So it appears a business did a thing that businesses do." WOAH MAN, ILLUMINATI SHT

[@yukuzoona6604]

yo fricken hipster 💀

[@TR-707]

i still dont get why Jorb is not ceo of moog

[@johncaccioppo1142]

Jorb of Moog has a certain ring to it

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@TR-707 many people are saying this

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@johncaccioppo1142 every morning in the mirror I chant that

[@TR-707]

@@JorbLovesGear Moorg

[@sneed777]

You can make all of this with diva/other vsts and you would never tell the difference…

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@sneed777 Genuine question what would you use to emulate the sequencer?

[@ChristianSamsel]

Somewhat surprised about the reasonable price

[@Subtronik]

China has been manufacturing Moog gear since 2017. The price should be lower.

[@lundsweden]

Made by Behringer!

[@DankePlace]

@@Subtronik really, you think assembled and manufacture are the same thing? China has been producing components for MOOG way before 2017, so much for your opinion.

[@Subtronik]

@@DankePlace haha, now you’re following me around to different comments? Get a life Karen!

[@Subtronik]

@@DankePlace haha, now you’re following me around to different comments? Must be OCD. Go complain to management Karen.

[@Subtronik]

Moog gear just doesn’t excite me anymore. Sequential, Novation and ASM though 👀

[@DankePlace]

You're re-posting this after your last dire effort?

[@Subtronik]

@@DankePlace get a life and quit being a creepy ass Karen 🖕🏻

[@Subtronik]

@@DankePlacequit stalking me Karen.

[@bennethos]

thx for the review. doesnt seem like my cup of tea tbh this labyrinth. i could probably do similar things with my sub37 for the vco and some max4live ableton plugins to get that sequencer thingy, then again, not into modular at all. Too expensive and not musical enough for me, ie I like poly's, I like things I can poweron and play that are in key. Life's too short

[@leftmono1016]

Modular is a lot of fun, but I’m glad I got out early. Some very simple tasks end up costing a lot of money!

[@rafaelgarciamoreno8089]

Hello, I own a moog subsequent37 too, you will never be able to get what a moog laberynth does, it is not a moog dfam, it is more similar to a subsequent, more or less in sound, a laberynth is a carrier and modulator type system with a wavefolder and FM, that is, a complex oscillator, a subsequent cannot reach those sounds even if you try, it is a clone of the buchla, I make jazz, but for electronic things a sequencer is preferable to modulate the attack and decay filter and the gates, ceo that has a low pass gate, I'm not sure, but at least it has a very good percussive type AD for another palette of very beautiful sounds, what the FM synthesis does with wavefolder, I wish they had done it also in the subsequent moog, It would be a much more definitive monophonic/duophonic type synthesizer, but it is not, it is more of a classic type with overdrive, which is the best is its style, greetings

[@bradleyboswell4875]

its pronounced moog

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@bradleyboswell4875 no its moog

[@lundsweden]

🐮

[@Softlol]

you are both wrong, its moog!

[@SugarMilk99]

You’re all mistaken, it’s pronounced moog! 😡

[@jacobporter6349]

It’s actually pronounced “moog” from the latin “moog”

[@DankePlace]

Love the sequencer, this is a chaos machine which gives a new fresh approach to how randomness comes through. I can only imagine how this plays out with the other MOOG gear. Great vid, thx.

[@wul01]

Is there a reverb built in? ……No there isn’t.. so why oh fkn why do we have to hear it through a reverb ffs.

[@Take8Recordings]

You don’t use reverb with your melodic notes?

[@DankePlace]

It's called "creative choice". Now given pretty much every bit of music commercially released uses some form of reverb, you think not adding your preferred one is against the norm?

[@wul01]

@@Take8Recordings you should NOT use reverb when reviewing an item . The review is pretty much pointless otherwise.

[@wul01]

@@DankePlace it’s called misleading when reviewing an item.

[@Take8Recordings]

@@wul01 it’s a complex Turing machine. You should be thankful there’s reverb on it

[@kokakolagodcomp-vi2yv]

i guess chinese moog makes nice gear too

[@SomeOne-pd6vm]

these are designs that have been in progress for a while now

[@Whityfisks]

choog

[@lrgstmrg]

Dude. Wtf happens with your voice at 1:37? Blink three times if you need help.

[@dodgedforgottenn]

Prediction before watching - Jorb tells us why he thinks the Moog product is overpriced, overrated, and so annoying cuz of all the stuff it doesn’t do. Let’s see if I am correct. Edit: well, I wasn’t completely wrong, but I was more wrong than right. Great video, as always, Jorb!

[@blackmetaltrajano3715]

Moog and it’s affordable prices…. 😂 🤮

[@synthpunkmusick]

It's a T O Y

[@DankePlace]

this is coming from the biggest kid on YT.

[@Take8Recordings]

Don’t tell my wife she might get excited for once

[@snörre23]

Devo would have loved it.

[@DankePlace]

@@snörre23 He's not DEVO, just DEVOID of any understanding of what synths are.

[@sonaranchor]

@@DankePlace the amount of trash talk you do is super cringe. Maybe consider OCD meds.

[@Curiosity-hv9gl]

Labyrynth of boredom

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@Curiosity-hv9gl good one

[@rave6577]

Ofc its unlike any other its not an american made moog anymore

[@JorbLovesGear]

@@rave6577 im sad it's not in Asheville anymore too, but it isn't instantly a totally new company.