The Moog Subharmonicon Semi-Modular Polyrhythmic Synthesizer

Synth fans may remember the appearance of the Subharmonicon at Moogfest 2018. Today, Moog is releasing this once-illusive semi-modular synth to the masses. To celebrate, Tone dives into the new features of the Subharmonicon and demonstrates its unique sounds and functionality.
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[@CaalamusTube]

10:40 ...this is honestly the most Musical demonstration I've seen of the Subharmonicon thus far! Bravo my good man! That was nifty✓

[@tonethedestroyer5285]

That was definitely my favorite patch, and the most fun to play. There’s a lot of musical potential with the SubH, especially when paired with the other two.

[@CaalamusTube]

@@tonethedestroyer5285 you're making Dr. Bob proud :]

[@PaulJBurns]

And it's not very musical at all.

[@Daphoid]

This is awesome, and if you haven't seen it check out this one with Mother 32, DFAM, and Subharmonicon: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6qvaoB8gLCWoq8

[@datawolf]

Please do all demos from now on.

[@tonethedestroyer5285]

Glad you enjoyed! I’m definitely hoping to continue collaborating with Reverb on future demos.

[@luisd.alfaro9362]

What a calm and lucid explanation. Just great.

[@nothingness.emptiness]

this is 100% better than perfect circuits demo 😅

[@globalgulag5586]

Yes thank you for putting in the time and effort to give quality and respect to yourself and this instrument! I was worried for a second.

[@tonethedestroyer5285]

Thanks for watching! Definitely a labor of love.

[@CO5MA]

Perfect Cirtuits demos aren't demos but just boring meaningless noises

[@rarecordings5934]

can't wait for Behringer to drop a version

[@benjaminmarin1407]

Something For Us the mortals

[@Softlol]

sneakydisco Yeah. I really want moot but its like apple. Just even more expensive. Gonna for Behringer.

[@jszack]

Really great video--one of the best synth demos I've seen from Reverb. Thanks!

[@Davidgtza2]

I need more videos of this dude playing synths

[@housemachine509]

Excellent review

[@hobodivine5776]

Beautiful.

[@mickflaire]

Hey there Tone. Thanks for giving us that demonstration on the Moog Subharmonicon. My neighbor turned me on to this when he called me up the other day and I decided to do a search and found your video. I have added your KZbin channel to my library. I am an old-school synthesist. I have a theremin Etherwave that I bought from Bob back in 1994. I also have a Moog Liberation a Juno 06, as well as an assortment of other synthesizers. I would really love to add this to my collection. Thanx and cheers!

[@LukeLendrum]

03:22 "What could be more modular synthesis than mathematical purism?" omg my sides, classic.

[@cr8on-b3rman]

"STAY HOME-PLAY SYNTHS"

[@tonethedestroyer5285]

no safer place than a basement synth bunker!

[@urzathehappy72]

I hope i get another stimulus check to get the full 3 tier mother rack. The subharmomicon is easily there best one yet!

[@valdiskrebs566]

Great jam @ 12:52 !

[@carlbowles1808]

Fantastic device 👍 I'm happy Moog is still in business. You really know The Moog and explain it well, thanks bro 👍👏.

[@tonethedestroyer5285]

It really is fantastic, lots of exploration potential. Thanks for watching!

[@jarickthom9767]

Great review - you really show the capability of the instrument. I have a question though - is that a custom modular board or one you can purchase one just like it? I would love to see a picture of it - to see what is on it. You had such a great ambient vibe going. I like that it is all contained in a clean unit with a power button and everything.

[@tonethedestroyer5285]

This rack is fully custom! www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/818630

[@golyboris]

Awesome!! ...but the kids want to know where is Patches?

[@Brain4Zombie]

Wow, this is just great and awesome. That Subharmonicon is sooooo bought! Plus the Mother 32 and a Tier 3 stand (yes I already have the DFAM) :)

[@midifilescom]

STAY HOME. PLAY MUSIC :)

[@joschkao9997]

Nice demo!

[@InvertedPopesMusic]

'Stay home. Play synths' quote of the year. I have watched a bunch of vids on the subharmonicon but this has to be the fastest purchase on a bit of new gear I have ever made. Arriving soon can't wait.

[@livelooper]

It sounds really good. Only deal breaker for me would be that the sequences look like they are fixed to 4 steps. If so that's too harsh a limitation.

[@tonethedestroyer5285]

Honestly the polyrhythm generators quickly turn those 4 steps into pretty dynamic sequences. Thanks for watching!

[@CaalamusTube]

@@tonethedestroyer5285 I think Andy means that it would be nice to have access to Triplets! ...& I betcha Moog will release this functionality in a Firmware update! 4/3 is a special PRhythm! PS you really made this Trio sing :] Best, most Musical Subharmonicon Demo I've seen thus far✓

[@somedude7133]

Looks pretty pleasing to both the eyes and ears. Probably gonna start saving up for Moog's semi-modular family! 🙂

[@derlachendevagabund7942]

Remember The Dark Side Of The Moog?

[@strangersun7721]

Really good overview here. One of the best I've seen today.

[@moralrevulsionLive]

Hear that elektron and roland? Moog listens...

[@chitlun]

Excellent demo sir! Man I need one of these buggers... What the going rate for a kidney these days?

[@buckbumble]

Is there any way to save settings / parameters?

[@tonethedestroyer5285]

No way to save presets, it’s still very analog in that way. But it well hold parameter settings through power cycling.

[@richpaul8132]

This is just what I need, something else to make me think I was abducted because I realized that I don't remember having got up 3 days earlier! LOL. What I mean is I tend to get into fooling around with things that have a huge span of adjustments and infinite potential. When that happens, I think to myself; "OK, I can't mess around for this more than 15 minutes because I've got to be somewhere at 8:30 AM..." The next thing I know, it's dark outside, my cats are pissed off at me because I haven't refreshed their food dishes & water, and my head hurts! LOL FWIW, Rich, PS very good and detailed video, especially for someone who didn't know that they really have no justification for buying this.

[@istefk]

great demo, informative and really well explained.

[@SynthAddict]

good demo man, you just sold another unit :-)

[@McEnroe911]

Great video. You are a pleasure to watch!

[@alainauger1733]

Wow! One of the best review of that synth so far! Cheers!

[@grahamshouse1937]

Noises Modular=semi-Ocilated =Beuty of a little box.

[@Tazmanian_Ninja]

4:41 Oh-mi-God! 🙀 It's deadmau5 in a box! 😺

[@user-cf3um7qp9n]

Hey man, GREAT video! Do more big fan

[@derekholland3328]

why are some units silver and some black?

[@thomasbrown3325]

Elusive, not illusive

[@HazeAnderson]

Just intonation (JI) and equal temperament (ET) are both Western in origin. We use ET because it is a compromise that prevents instruments from being too complex to even be constructed. We need roughly 30 different pitches (some notes have 2 different Hertz values! a note may be sharper depending on the key) per octave to represent the scale of JI but we only need 12 per octave in the scale of ET. And really only instruments that are capable of "sliding" or "bending" notes are able to adhere to the scale of JI and then and only then if the performer has the training and skill to pull it off. If you are still wondering why this has to be so "needlessly" complex ask yourself this ... you know what frequency A4 is ... it is 440 Hertz. What frequency is G4? What frequency is B4? C4? Logarithms are a bitch yo! 😂

[@somanythings9074]

This shit blows my mind!! Im a guitarist and wouldnt have a clue where to start but i still want one and they look cool not sure how id fit that into producing tho!

[@valley_robot]

Long time guitar player here mate, been playing in rock bands since 1984, synths are a rabbit hole you never escape from, I started off wanting just one. Now I have rooms full of them plus drum machines and sequencers. It's a fun hole to be in though. I feel like I'm controlling something from NASA when I'm jamming with my gear

[@Softlol]

Sounds sooooo good. Too expensive for me tho.

[@jimmymarco8194]

Man this guy is awesome ! The things I would do to buy him a beer and sit down and talk synths !

[@tonethedestroyer5285]

Mr. Marco, I’m flattered.

[@batongblomma]

awesome demo!

[@deerfieldself256]

I keep coning back to this demo, such musical use of this synth.

[@Daphoid]

This one and also this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6qvaoB8gLCWoq8

[@aaronjaffe4931]

I'm syncing mine with Logic but found I have to delay the midi to it by app 38 ms - anyone else?

[@pluckingthespectrum]

love it - well done man :)

[@gr4phic3r]

beginner question - is it possible to set it to for example a tempo of 120bpm? is this possible with the subharmonicon alone?

[@tiesoul2649]

Hello reverb! Could you release a patch sheet of how you create the patch at 10:53 as well as other patches from this video?

[@spdycar13]

Best tutorial I’ve seen of this synth! Do you have your own channel with more content like this?

[@BigJohn1969]

mine arrives this week, thanks for the great video anyone who hates this video is jealous they cant get one

[@ManCalledMif]

❤️🧘🏼‍♀️😃🌈 So grateful for this awesome new synth

[@Vitalka_project]

For kids . too small like a joy/

[@therxpeutic]

holy fuck

[@domeniccercone9410]

Wow, this has gone crazy. This is harder to pronounce than some of the things in my science textbook.

[@adamhyde19]

I want to buy the song @ 12:55. You are a wizard.

[@LarcTald]

not "a little bit different." but completly different.

[@NicleT]

Very cool demo. Thank you!

[@Pandangus]

Great video, sweet jam!

[@TheSkatervet]

Great review! Were these sounds created with an attached MIDI keyboard or did you do it straight from the synths?

[@tonethedestroyer5285]

Thanks! All of these were done with the sequencers in the Subharmonicon, or a combination of the SubH, the Mother-32, and the DFAM. No MIDI here, but like I mentioned in the video, the Subharmonicon has a TRS MIDI in, and control using a MIDI keyboard is definitely something the Subharmonicon is capable of.

[@rahmspinat]

Two things about this video are fantastic: 1. The hardware 2. The presentation 3. The presenter More options than stated, just like that freaking Harmonicon

[@NicolasMelis]

wow!

[@NathanChisholm041]

Sounds like every other synth they make!!

[@lasherthirteen7456]

cool synth at a good price and all like any MOOG product [love the customer service and policies ] but damm i do not hear anything hear i haven't heard before from countless other pieces of kit? not that is a bad thing...

[@caseyking8394]

I love this

[@fadplastic]

10:19 whoaaaaaaa 🤯

[@screaming.pigeon]

I’m 72 years old

[@THESYNTHBARD]

So cool!!

[@-thirteen]

bleepsandbloops core is a solid thing now I guess. yay?

[@NathanChisholm041]

Its for ppl that cannot make music!!

[@brianboyer9383]

​@@NathanChisholm041 Bleeps and bloops ARE music. The pizzicato is the orchestral version of bleeps and bloops and classical music composers have been employing them for centuries.

[@Ric-Roze]

👍👍

[@Zeonoid]

Sounds milion bucks costs around the same

[@CaalamusTube]

$700

[@terrorbirbfpv4732]

sounds like a midlife crisis

[@donl3364]

Deadmau5 in a box...

[@sanchez_demo]

Great demo and hawt gear porn, but still a blip-bloop machine.

[@pettersoderberg]

Good job! Question: is there a way of skipping/pausing steps in the sequences?

[@emblemcc]

to me it sounds like Moog, nothing new.

[@Aurum1977]

C'mon guys. This just a fancy toy for making noise. Give me 1 artist name that has use this to make something somewhat musical.

[@NathanChisholm041]

Dont you like blips and blobbs? lol Its for ppl that can't make music using a keyboard! This trend needs to end!!!

[@tonethedestroyer5285]

I think fancy toys for making noise are pretty awesome, tbh... plenty of room for it all.

[@wellurban]

Given that it’s only just come out, there’s not going to be much! But in the demos by Mylar Melodies, Hainbach, Andrew Huang, Suzanne Ciani and Baseck there’s already plenty of evidence that it can be musical in lots of different genres.

[@jimmymarco8194]

Did you even watch the video ?! That’s one artist right there that’s already extrapolating the beautiful sounds out of this sweet machine. Don’t be a hater on a tasty sound gener-ator. #jimmyout

[@Aurum1977]

James yess. Lots of hits made with this.

[@BCTGuitarPlayer]

Pronounced Moooooog! Not Moag. Regardless, nice little demo.

[@henryhill92]

Nope, nah, definitely Moag

[@NathanChisholm041]

Its Moag not Moog!!!

[@fuckgoogle9895]

Die wohl ehrlichste Darstellung des Subharmonicons. Es klingt exakt so: melancholisch, hypnotisch, eigenartig immersiv. Mal herzerweichend süß, dann wieder völlig extatisch und grollend bis erschreckend depressiv. Es ist jedes Mal ein Trip.