The Moog Model 10 Synthesizer

Finally! A look at a Moog modular synthesizer!
Despite Moog being the most famous synth brand ever, it's historically been difficult for me to get hold of Moogs for numerous reasons, so when I found out that there was a Model 10 reissue lurking in the UK, I begged GAK Music Emporium to let me borrow it.
If you're interested in buying this instrument, the link is here: www.gak.co.uk/en/moog-model-1...
Thank you also to Michelle Moog-Koussa at the Bob Moog Foundation, Moog Music, Marc Doty and Vincent Michaels for their help with photos, brochures and information.
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0:00 Intro Jam
1:14 The Model 10
1:38 The History of Moog Modular Synths
3:59 Demo 1: Bananas
4:58 The Reissues
5:48 Demo 2: Pulses
7:03 What's on a Moog Model 10?
10:23 Demo 3: Space Disco
11:35 Summary & Thoughts
12:40 Outro Jam

[@tonycowin]

Who needs an Apple Mac when we can have a banana Moog?

[@koosfockens1707]

I'll have both thanks! I have the Mac, the Moog might be a bit of a bigger ask..... (does a Moog model 15 emulation count?)

[@tudser]

​@@koosfockens1707😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@Rompler_Rocco]

I'd give my left alex for Ball's gear.

[@AlexBallMusic]

😆

[@nebulance4289]

Your right Alex will be lonely without his buddy.

[@dankeplace]

@@nebulance4289 there will still be a banana though.

[@user-xt8km1dh4q]

😂😂😂

[@tranceemerson8325]

The bananas song is the most British thing I've heard all week. lol

[@Arx196372]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/manZq59voJJ5jqc more French

[@Rockky67]

I almost spat out my gentleman’s relish fnaar

[@lunacampos5094]

Very RARE circa 1999 if u ask me

[@ScottWozniak]

You should press up yellow vinyl of that Bananas track and sell it to help fund the channel. I'd buy it immediately! 🍌🍌🍌

[@AlexBallMusic]

Pressed on banana skin or it's cheating.

[@thepostapocalyptictrio4762]

It would not be a Moog video without a strange song.

[@AlexBallMusic]

It's the name, it calls out for strangeness.

[@ivanlozano2019]

Neither would it be an Alex ball video without a strange song.

[@Mouxbar]

The British Bananas Marketing Board will be impressed! Look forward to the advert 🙂

[@AlexBallMusic]

They sponsored the video.

[@andyjames362]

I'm sorry, but Bananas is THE greatest composition of the last hundred years!! Fight me!!

[@Ishkur23]

The Bananas track is definitely something Jean-Jacques Perrey would make, while Space Disco is definitely something Patrick Cowley would make. Love me those Hi-NRG triplets.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Was going for JJP with bananas and also Giorgio for Space Disco. Just needed a Polymoog.

[@skaneverdies]

Oh my god, you really nailed the circa 1971 Moogspoitation sound. The little descending chord phrase is spot on.

[@DaveG207]

I want, nay, demand, that Bananas get it’s own KZbin release. It needs to be shared widely. 🎉

[@AlexBallMusic]

Would you say it has wide... a-peel?

[@evanglicanism]

If your first reaction to finding a Moog isn't to play campy ragtime novelty music with a vaguely tropical flavor, you're doing it wrong!

[@nerfytheclown]

Would have never occurred to me...but it's so obvious.

[@AlexBallMusic]

🍌🍌🍌🍌

[@Scodiddly]

Indeed, it's the synth nerd version of playing "Stairway to Heaven" in the music store.

[@BogginMashups]

3:58 is going to haunt my dreams forever

[@AlexBallMusic]

🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌

[@fanbladeinstruments]

My grandad played me Kaleidoscopic Vibrations in 1985 when I was aged 6, it's effect on me was immediate and everlasting, Perry/Kingsley remain one of my favourite guilty pleasures to this day. To hear an homage to that particularly silly style fills me with genuine joy, thank you.

[@DirkFellhauer]

That´s what KZbin is made for: VIDEOS FROM THE ONE AND ONLY ALEX B.! :-D. Thanks a lot! Especially for finally teaching us Germans how to REALLY pronounce "Moog" correctly ;-)

[@christophermitchum6829]

My first synth experience...circa '73...was on a school field trip! Fell in love with the greats (Edgar, Billy, ELP, etc...) before that...had to know what that sound was!!! Been a geek since...thnx 2 everyone who "Boldly went where no man has gone before...". 🎶🎶🎶👆✈️🌈

[@AlexBallMusic]

Wow! A heck of a first synth experience!

[@nerfytheclown]

...I should think you've song the thing for them, bro. Nice.

[@justinb9387]

I have NO WORDS for that 'wiggle' you did whilst dancing and doing the vocoder at the end ... NO WORDS - it was that good p;-))

[@geertvanschlanger8057]

Schexy?

[@timburdsey]

This the big one-the one we’ve all been waiting for! Thanks, Alex. Great video, as always.

[@christianvandalstrom8337]

That is a very very interesting good sounding moog. I'm a moog and korg nerd.

[@oaktreeyt6488]

so a… moorg nerd?

[@ChrisSmout]

I loved the Jean-Jacques Perrey tribute - my son started vibing and giggling when it came on. Bravo!

[@SockSockson]

"Bananas" - sounds like it could be straight off a YMO album.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Interesting. I was going for Perrey / Kingsley.

[@sw1ne2001]

Every time I watch your video's they are engaging, informative and presented with humour! Love the music too.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Very kind, thank you!

[@budgetkeyboardist]

THANK YOU. I had a super crappy 2 weeks at work and it's always wonderful to come home to a new Alex Ball video.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Sorry about the crappy 2 weeks. Glad the Moog came to the rescue.

[@RCAvhstape]

18 into the opening jam I'm already smashing the like button. There is no synth sound like an old school Moog.

[@AlexBallMusic]

A Moog is a Moog!

[@MikeSmith-tx2lp]

This guy is what’s trying to escape from me ! I can’t hold it back - fabulous!!

[@LightBranches]

Whenever anyone said that Moogs sounded fruity, I never thought of bananas, but I will, moving forward. Ripe bananas, to be exact.

[@THR-zf6ti]

Love the Space Disco - music, sound + british humor - unbeatable! PS: if somebody would start a petition to rerelease Wendy Carlos' Masterpieces, I would buy them all! I heard that Wendy didn't want her music on Spotify and I certainly respect her decision, but perhaps someone could convince her, to allow new CDs and / or Vinyls! Perhaps we should start a game, that fans (preferably owning at least one synthesizer ;-) ) of you try to come up with 1 or 2 min hommage remake of their favourate track of Wendy .... Thanks for your wonderful videos!

[@timkoelln3826]

Instant thumbs up before I even watch! I’ve been waiting for this one!

[@greatheightsu]

Moog and whoever has these classic units like these has to let you borrow them! Incredible history lesson, music lesson, music, and advertisements for them. You get to play them, they get to sell them, win/win.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Very happy to borrow more Moogs!

[@CactusTeether]

Wonderful, as usual. Even more wonderful: at 7:33 where the VCO is sweeped - Closed Captions throws up 'Thank You'. Mr. Moog is watching!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Haha, how curious!

[@glenesis]

So Moogy 😃 Monstrously great new compositions, Mr.B! Your skills are mighty! I got to sit next to a Model 10 in a lounge in the Moog Factory in Asheville in 2014 😍 Isn't it adorable? That multi-output oscillator is dreamy. Thanks for the walkthrough-by-module. Great video, Alex! Congrats on getting this beautiful thing in your studio. 🍌

[@AlexBallMusic]

I'd love to visit the Moog factory. Obviously, I'd bring a banana.

[@glenesis]

@@AlexBallMusic Obvs.

[@TheMachinesWon]

"Borrow” is the key word. Vintage/Reissue Moog modular is way to expensive for most folks, thus it's out of reach...what a sound though, great video!

[@AlexBallMusic]

It's a premium product, yes. Hence I _really_ wanted to do a video with one. Like borrowing a Ferrari when you run a car channel.

[@christophermitchum6829]

Bro... you own it! Can you say "Sponsor"? 😂🎉🎶🤟👍

[@TheMachinesWon]

@@AlexBallMusic totally, I’d borrow one too if I had the chance…see if they’ll let u send it over after ur done with it ;) It’ll be the story of the traveling moog, no pant’s necessary

[@marktrueman7788]

BANANAS.. A sure-fire hit!! 😂

[@AndyVonal]

Another wonderful video! Thanks loads, Alex! I can only dream about owning something like this but these videos are still a joy!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Cheers Andrew. I dream too, but nice to be able to borrow one.

[@darrelldourte9455]

​@@AlexBallMusic the caps needed it.

[@PocketUnv]

Such a glorious instrument, and you really brought out the best in it.

[@geertvanschlanger8057]

I usched thisch on the muschic for schquirt locker.

[@MEGAMIGA]

I love how knowledgeable and passionate you are about synths!

[@frankbalde1956]

Another great video, good info and most important: fantastic micro songs! And that sound, wow! I even get the wow experience with my only Moog, the Werkstatt-01. Thanx Alex for putting all this time and work into your videos, I usually watch them a few times.

[@SynthgodXXX]

Sounds absolutely fantastic! Your jams are the BEST on KZbin!

[@TomMadisonSoundsLewis]

As if I didn't want one enough already!!! The 904 + 907 are just the best!

[@baxthered]

Love the bananas one 🍌 😆

[@Waldemar_la_Tendresse]

If there is a goal in the field of being a musician and being a youtuber at the same time, then you have both achieved it and absolutely nailed it: Interesting and entertaining videos seasoned with a large portion of expertise, a lot of humor and a lot of musical skill are more fun than 90% of all other, pure marketing videos.

[@CommunityGuidelines]

Great work as always! Nice use of the System 100 for the percussive tom sounds in the last track.

[@ericpeters0n]

Don't need this unit.... but I had no idea how much I needed your "Bananas" demo in my life today. Cheers!

[@mikemeengs5720]

This synth speaks to me in a way no modern modular setup can. Great video...bananas!

[@andybabb2410]

Awesome video, Alex, I always feel like I learn something new about synths and synth history every time I watch your videos! 🎹😄🎹

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thanks, nice to know!

[@toddbernstein3407]

Thank you for the Perrey and Kingsley tribute! I don't know how much people realize how brilliant their songs are.

[@fredkettler938]

Absolutely brilliant demonstration of a super cool vintage piece that can make your head explode, and love your jams Alex, I really appreciate what you do 🍻

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thanks Fred!

[@PaulBoos]

How did I miss this when it came out? Might have corresponded to when I was on vacation. Anyway glad to see this! Always find your vids so informative (and fun musically).

[@Boris_Chang]

wonderful presentation!!!

[@robertsyrett1992]

Thanks for that Perrey and Kingsley homage.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Had to be done.

[@treyquattro]

Alex, you're amazing, How you manage to put together great sounding demos pretty much to spec is gasting of the old flabber.

[@recorderconsort7755]

How cool is that! Dear Alex, thank you very much for this cool song (Space Disco at 10:23) I'm a big fan of your cool music! Alexander

[@davidreeson3741]

Awesome guitar-strap-to-tee-shirt alignment in the intro jam - bravo!😂

[@JohnLloydDavis]

My dad had a few albums by a man called Klaus Wunderlich back in the 70's and your Bananas tune sounds like most of them. Great :)

[@hvegel]

"bananas" absolutely rips, albeit my 7 year old told me it's the derpiest song he's ever heard (he still thoroughly enjoyed)

[@jtro77]

Yep, definitely bananas alright.... Another nicely put together video and some great sounds.

[@JimmyNuisance]

There's a Model 15 recreation from Moog on the iPad and it's awesome. Well worth the money for those who got curious about this synth.

[@eddydeegan]

I like the cut of your gib Alex, you're really going from strength to strength. Also, love the demos!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Cheers Eddy.

[@kevinbatchelor9566]

The 907 sounds so good.

[@Dez_The_Wolf]

I actually collect Moog Modulars. My first synth was a Moog System 35, I found it at a Goodwill for $10. I wasn't really sure what it was, but I soon found out that I could make music with it, so I plugged it into my cheap Sears cassette recorder and made multiple silly albums with it (Bananas is a lot like something I would've made with my friends when we were teenagers)! I still have the hundreds of tapes I recorded between the ages of 13 and 18!

[@jono80]

Bananas reminded me instantly of The Moog Cookbook. So good!

[@russellyoung6498]

Great work, Alex, and thank you. That Model 10 is still for sale, only £9.7k! And that's reduced from £12k+!! Mrs. Y sadly did not listen favourably to my business case... 😢

[@TLGElectro]

I didn't realise how big the 10 was until this video. Now I understand why it costs so much, ( I own a Moog Source and i am a Eurorack person, both are much smaller!). 👍

[@AlexBallMusic]

And it's the smallest one too! Huge things.

[@MirlitronOne]

Size is not everything...

[@Cubik303]

The Bananas tune is the best song I’ve heard in… ages. Bravo!

[@baward]

Nice one, Mr B! I realise you can do a ton more with this, but I am so glad I have a Voyager for THAT sound.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Hopefully I'll do a Voyager video at some point.

[@MrBlazingVortex]

Phenomenal channel.

[@mybachhertzbaud3074]

Fun,fun,fun out of the sun.😁🎶🎶🎹🎶Play On

[@erikribeiro5772]

Alex! Wearing a Jack to the Future Knobcon shirt! And an Astros shirt! Wow! Now we just gotta get you out to Knobcon!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Would love to if it is ever logistically achievable. 🙂

[@jmsbres]

Whuddup w/ The Stros shirt? Do you even H-Tine?

[@macronencer]

When you showed us the mixer saturation, I just knew you were going to sweep that ladder filter as well. I was not disappointed :) The only Moog I own is a Mavis, which is a neat little thing and sounds pretty great, but I'd love to be able to mess around with a big Moog modular! A real piece of history.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Yeah, you can see the whole waveform squash into a lollipop in your DAW. The filter had to be swept. Mavis - don't think I've used one to date. Little semi-modular dude?

[@macronencer]

@@AlexBallMusic That's the one - originally a project from a workshop that was run by someone, I believe. It's nice for experimenting and is quite capable of meaty bass lines. Also has a wavefolder, which is unusual for a Moog.

[@RegebroRepairs]

I'm not a filter aficionado, but I'm starting to hear the greatness of the moog ladder filter.

[@AndersEngerJensen]

That first song gave me serious Jean Michel Jarre vibes. ;)

[@HeavyDutyModularSynths]

i love this. I need all of these modules every single one, in eurorack format, along with every single eurorack format module in the world thanks.

[@AnalogueSolutions]

great work! We have one here in an unopened box here at AS

[@werewolflover8636]

Might I add for those who care, Moog’s are still made by hand in the USA and you can even visit their factory in Asheville NC.

[@waugsqueke]

Bananas had be laughing so much. Jean Jacques Perrey would be proud.

[@fallingmanuk]

Please... where can I get a ticket to the Space Disco? Your twin abilities of making both interesting documentaries about legendary music equipment and side-splittingly catchy tunes is highly enviable! 😇

[@stephenlewis9159]

Gotta admire your balls for singing and dancing like that!!!!!

[@xa1a]

Mate that was fantastic! It would be interesting to hear a comparison between this, and the more modern Dot Com stuff!

[@AlexBallMusic]

Yeah, numerous clones out there, would be interesting to try them.

[@briankehew579]

DotCom designs were great for control voltage generators, but sonically no comparison to the MOOG audio. However the good clones being made are indeed very close sonically, very nice and less expensive.

[@TucsonHippy]

If we ever enter a nuclear holocaust and zombies run rampant looking for brains, there would be a variant of these zombies who were former synthesists and they would be wandering the broken landscape looking for "knobs" and Alex would be their king. Another great video on a synth icon. Please please keep them coming.

[@AlexBallMusic]

That's quite an image. 😆

[@zerstaerker]

If you would release CDs, I would buy them.

[@VEsound]

Nice video as usual Alex

[@StevenBaranowski]

Called shot: The "Bananas" song will become a meme.

[@AlexBallMusic]

I'm game.

[@pawnotdaw4559]

Lovely synth and video. Bought my beloved Juno 6 from GAK for £150 in 1996. Great store.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Small world. 🙂

[@HootHinge]

filter sweep content strike incoming

[@AlexBallMusic]

Oh god. Haha. Hopefully not.

[@merbertancriwalli8622]

Bananas and vocoder - Lovin it Mr Ball 🙂

[@danstirling7386]

Love this! On the subject of Moog, I’d absolutely love to see you delve in one the One if you get chance.

[@AlexBallMusic]

Played one a couple of times, would be fun to do a video.

[@Lewp77]

awesome !!!!

[@Psychlist1972]

That was ... bananas :)

[@christianvandalstrom8337]

You just need to listen to the noice sound a love it.

[@vinniefray7299]

og dubstep womps machine ! nice filters and sweeps and bleeps and bloops

[@timburdsey]

The synth is beautiful; the playing exquisite. My only comment is: couldn’t you have found a better banana?! 😂

[@AlexBallMusic]

😆

[@kaitlyn__L]

They all look like that in the UK thanks to the summer heat!

[@RIVA5150]

Heck yea bro!🔥🤘🏻🔥

[@gladlawson61]

Super cool

[@jeffjfindley4802]

Yes please!

[@timburdsey]

That cosmic jam is certainly worthy of a place in a Daniele Baldelli set! 👍🏻

[@SebastianSnoeck]

love the track bananas 😉

[@richardballinger517]

Brilliant as usual. Banana's!

[@dankeplace]

Alex, the way you do your modular tracks, are they repeatable or once off happy accidents that you have a some what funnel vision of what is going to be an outcome? My approach to the way I make music is, set it all up, do the sequencing, let it go and see what comes of it. I am just interested in your workflow, as we have seen with other more rigid pieces that you have a set goal, I am wondering if this is a little more flexible due to the gear behind it? As always, wonderful watching what you make for us, always entertaining as usual.

[@GEOSynths]

This is awesome :)

[@AlexBallMusic]

Thanks Jamie.