Animoog is a music synth

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designed for

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and BlackBerry Z10. Animoog is powered by

Moog Music Moog Music Inc. ( ) is an American synthesizer company based in Asheville, North Carolina. It was founded in 1953 as R. A. Moog Co. by Robert Moog and his father and was renamed Moog Music in 1972. Its early instruments included the Moog sy ...

's Anisotropic Synthesis Engine.

Description

There are three versions of Animoog. Animoog for the

is simply named 'Animoog'. 'Animoog for iPhone', which offers different features and layout, works on iPhones and the iPod Touch. There also is a third version named 'Animoog for Blackberry', built for the BlackBerry Z10. Animoog comes with tens of varied sound presets. Over 3,100 Animoog presets and 5,100 timbres are also available through official and user-provided expansion packs. Expansion packs include work from acclaimed

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ers, such as

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, Drew Neumann,

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and Adam Holzman. A set of 82 official presets, available as

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, are derived from a 1968 live recording of the

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's ''

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'' album. Animoog won a TEC award in early 2013 with the mention of being "Expressive, Captivating and Sonically Immersive". Animoog is also the sound engine at the core of the Theremini, a modern

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built by Moog.

References

External links

Animoog product page from Moog Music site

Animoog.org
community-oriented Animoog website * Officia
Moog Apps forum
{{Moog Music Moog synthesizers IOS software BlackBerry software Software synthesizers

Description

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