Introducing the Moog Polyphonic Theremin

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Introduced in 1928, the Theremin is one of the earliest and most widely known electronic instruments. Played artists that manipulate invisible energy fields around antennas which control the pitch and volume of the sound, Theremin music has distinguished hit records from such diverse artists as The Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, Clara Rockmore and Linkin Park.
Today (April 1st), Moog Music designers carrying on the legacy of visionary founder, Robert Moog have announced the first major technical Theremin design advance in over 40 years. The PolyTheremin™ incorporates bleeding edge IsoDirectional Inductive Oscillator Technology, to isolate space around five individual pitch antennas thus enabling each to be played simultaneously (finger-by-finger) without interference from its companion antennas. This revolutionary concept breaks the long held belief that the Theremin could only be monophonic instrument.
The PolyTheremin ships with Dorit Chrysler's instructional video "Playing the PolyTheremin is Even Easier Than Playing a Monophonic Theremin."
Purchase the Etherwave PolyTheremin here: www.moogmusic.c...
Learn more about Moog Music here: www.moogmusic.com
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@ph.deeeee 5 лет назад

Took me 8 years to realize this was a gag. Well played, Moog.

@1Live2Love3Thrive 3 года назад

Haha...well played indeed

@melmorris134 7 месяцев назад

😢 back to dreaming of owning a laser harp

@ThomasGrillo 13 лет назад

I can't say it enough. This was the best April fools' gag I've ever seen. They made it look so real. Moog Music even had a fake page for the PolyTheremin too. Well done! LOL ;)

@MikaelFL 13 лет назад

"I thought they were joking" then I realized they were joking. Trollin' at its best. Kudos!

@copperleaves 13 лет назад

Moog introduces "IDIOT" on April 1st. LOL....wherever he is, the late Dr. Bob is having a good laugh over this!

@cerignola12 10 лет назад

Hilarious. Love those lab coats on the engineers.

@adamclan24 13 лет назад

Iso Directional Inductive Oscillator Technology HAHa love it!

@rdean400 10 лет назад

I almost thought they were serious for a second, and then I noticed the date.

@DerHerrIstMeineStärke 10 лет назад

IDIOT technology? please tell me this is an april fools joke lol

@horowizard 6 лет назад

Video is dated 4.1.2011 so go figure..

@destramacchi4219 6 лет назад

That's exactly what I thought!

@geomackisback 10 лет назад

IDIOT, I so want one !!!

@fueledbylove 10 лет назад

Ha ha. Technically impossible the field around the antenna is omnidirectional and quite large and those antennae are awfully close together. Does get one to think what a group of accomplished players might sound like on individual instruments playing different parts.

@Pericles_Vicente 11 лет назад

I developed a polyphonic version of the theremin several years ago, but I used another technology that I named "Super Tonal Uniform Polynomial Interpolation Driver", that worked under a system called "Fully Operational Oscillating Linear Sampler". It is now completely forgotten due to the new "Digital Ultra Musical Boosting System".

@BugBrand 13 лет назад

One of my fingers was cut off last year. Will I still be able to play this wonderful instrument?

@newignis 3 года назад

Of course, just remove the appropriate antenna. :-D

@ghmasterjj 12 лет назад

it took me forever to find this video again

@emmanueloluga9770 2 года назад

Quality troll then, even more wholesome in today's era

@SimulationThesis 12 лет назад

Bob Moog would love this!

@NovaSilisko 13 лет назад

This is quite entertaining with 1911 mode on.

@hangebicom 13 лет назад

Technically I see no problems doing it in hardware. The problem is absence of humans, able to precisely and independently control their fingers in realtime.

@MightyOneManBand 4 года назад

It's 2020 now, and we need to turn this old April Fools into an actual reality. Come on, Moog. Build the real thing! =)

@UlimorUdamenta 9 лет назад

So it uses IDIOT to play this thing? My God. Genial

@bertramD 13 лет назад

I need 4 of those - I plan to use my feet to play my next symphony... well actually I could use 5!

@ClassicTVMan1981X 12 лет назад

If the new Moog has been getting out with two different guitars (the run of the mill Stratocaster-body, and a lap steel), the (very, very) last thing on my mind from them would be an electromechanical piano in the vein of a Rhodes or Wurlitzer.

@imeifong 13 лет назад

What a great joke idea--for a Bernard Herrmann fan, this caught my attention for an extra reason. Too funny!!

@Cooperman666ROFL 8 лет назад

Well you are an Analog Synthesiser Sine Harmonic Oscillator Lowpass Envelope. I don't think it would be that hard to make a poly theremin though. Not that way though, absolutely not.

@niidouglas 3 года назад

well, how then?

@harperandjohnson 13 лет назад

It Took me a while, I saw it posted on someone's facebook and thought how is that possible. Cheers Moog ;-)

@xmikelawsonx 13 лет назад

When she said "moog music" and this is a video from MOOG, I started to feel that something was up.

@MarionRelics 3 года назад

I was about to go OFF on this nonsense, thank you for being a prank.

@dominicstocker5144 7 лет назад

How much skill takes it to play this monster!?

@soysos 13 лет назад

Love the wobbly, out of tune Stairway To Heaven. Very funny!

@nogov4us 11 лет назад

Not only that Jorge, they announced the very first polyphonic theramin on the 1st of April. Plus, the woman playing "Sairway to Heaven" by Led Zep who are devoted followers of "Uncle Al" Crowley. The plot thickens.

@fenderislife 13 лет назад

April's fool!

@NonDigitalTom 13 лет назад

I want to see this thing hooked up to an MF-433! :-D

@prinsje01 11 лет назад

Apparently they put a lot of thought into developing this amazing instrument, but not quite as much into naming it. It is a beautiful peace of technology and a very interesting contribution to the world of music, but as for the piece played in this video I still prefer an old fashioned, steel stringed wooden guitar, played by mr. Page of course.

@ThomasGrillo 3 года назад

Still the best theremin prank! :)

@paviglianiti 13 лет назад

Ti amo.

@eternal0star 13 лет назад

Nice april fools joke. "I.D.I.O.T." :P

@mima85 13 лет назад

Moog's fokls are geniuses even at creating a 1st april joke :-D

@texasmaverick1983 13 лет назад

it sounds like my 8 Bit NES all over again LOL X-D

@jkeuwk 13 лет назад

Wait a second, the technology is called "IDIOT"? Are we being trolled? I honestly can't tell.

@Jules979899 13 лет назад

SWEEEEETTTTT!!!!!!

@ciclosonico 13 лет назад

Iso Directional Inductive Oscillator Tecnology = IDIOT HAHAHAHAHAHA guys you're great!!!!

@lumsdot 13 лет назад

The date at start of video is 4.1.2011 i.e. 4th of Jan 2011 so its not an April fool When using dates start with smallest unit i.e. Days then next biggest unit months then next biggest unit i.e. years. Using Month-Day-Year is daft and would be an April fool in itself

@bryceHUHwhat 13 лет назад

Iso Directional Inductive Oscillator Technology We are Idiots arent we? But if there was a way to make the theremin antenna only sensitive to one direction, ie. directly in front of the antenna. then you could play one note per finger. its cool and could be posible. lol

@johnmoore3337 8 лет назад

playing stairway to heaven that is awesome

@Gato303co 8 лет назад

Agreed !!!

@CraigSpannier 13 лет назад

"hey, you see that sign?"

@GNeuman 13 лет назад

Whatever next, a re-release of the Polymoog, complete with 1 week guarantee?

@qoaa 13 лет назад

i wish this was real, good april fools Moog!

@amarok5048 10 лет назад

Jokes aside, it's time there was an actual paradigm shift on the Theremin. No, I don't think the "Theramini" is it, nice toy though it is. (I topped up my savings on the "Theremini" and ended buying a Sub Phatty). Over the years, the Theremin was great for two things; 1950s sci-fi and Portishead albums. First "play" on the "polyphonic", I was so bowled over, I was thrilled at the thought of the Theremin having been dragged out of geekdom and into feasible street. Gullible me, nice trick. Dorit, when telling lies, if you glance to the left more frequently, your body language appears more truthful, they say, and I find. And with all due respect, Dorit, if I ever encounter someone as gorgeous and cerebral as you are, I will immediately a) Respect you as a person Namaste. b) The words "I should be so lucky" and nothing carnal (I am a sapiophile) will flash across my mind. And yes, I was suckered in until I revisited this vid. Don't all of you assholes out there say you got the joke first time. Because some of you are lying.

@geomackisback 10 лет назад

Dig a little deeper on the Portishead angle and you'll discover that the therimin was not involved. It was the standard modular rig with an extreme pitch-bend.

@amarok5048 10 лет назад

Nice one.

@ThereminHero 13 лет назад

hahhhahahhhahhahahahhhaha amazing. good job guys

@63MGB1 2 года назад

I didn't notice the acronym for the technology at the beginning spells IDIOT until third viewing. What clued me in on first view was when Dorit said it was easier to play than the original Theremin. I thought...huh?!

@DjDoggDad 7 месяцев назад

I thought of this vid the first time I played the Wavemin in Virtuoso VR, I was shocked the wavemin actually felt like an evolution of the traditional theremin!

@SladeBarker 13 лет назад

Amazing prank. I totally fell for it. The woman in the video is fantastic. Only after someone pointed out "I.D.I.O.T." to me, did I realize I was an idiot. On second listen, it sounded like someone fooling around with a synthesizer. Sheesh, do I feel dumb.

@DivineMisterAdVentures 2 года назад

That's just downright mean. Still - how did you get that effect on STH?

@JohannesMoserCellist 13 лет назад

I love you guys! So funny

@teemad 13 лет назад

Someone posted this today (April 4) and I was like "phoooar" without even watching the whole video. Until the "new technology" flashed on screen and I was like "wait a minute, that says... I.D.I.O.T."... dammit.

@videocurcuits 13 лет назад

every year a new joke ! get back to releasing the froogers as traditional formfactor and euro rack modules

@TheAnkan22 12 лет назад

I have would not have seen this video but after watching and reading the CHIP Magazine May 2011 version about the April fool's best pranks now i am watching.It is a real prank!! :)

@MrMarioMarino 12 лет назад

i would like to by it, but i cant find price of it, can you help me to know it? thankyou a lot. Mario

@StigFostervold 13 лет назад

I hate that this was a joke, because I was really getting into the idea. Well Moog, now you'll just have to find a way to make this actually happen, won't you?

@SOPADELICIOSA 13 лет назад

Looking at the engineers and their mocking about all in white is almost the funniest part. :-)

@RedSntDK 12 лет назад

At first I was like.. Is this an Aprils fool? And then I looked at the description and - yup!

@robytur89 12 лет назад

One of the best april fools of ever! :D

@hangebicom 12 лет назад

Technically I don't see any difficulty in tracing each finger individually and then submitting it's position to virtual model of theremin synth.

@fashnek 13 лет назад

It's impressive technology, but sorry, as an instrument, it's just way too niche.

@imeifong 13 лет назад

What a great joke idea--for a Bernard Herrmann fan, this caught my attention for an extra reason. Too funny!! IDIOT!! :)

@donbosleymusic 13 лет назад

Google Joel Chadabe, look at his photos and his theremin set up in the late 70's. Not as elaborate, but similar concept.

@corc7614 12 лет назад

A polyphonic theremin, but they still won't touch the Memorymoog? Had me fooled.

@Spurkplug 13 лет назад

I just thought that jokes doesn't cost 1,995$.

@dhollsynthmusic 13 лет назад

A little too obvious with your clues, Moog, but otherwise a brilliant device

@christoroppolo8742 6 лет назад

Wow. Crazy possibilities! Is there a Display for seeing the note structures too? In real time? Peace Christo

@Epochalypse1978 13 лет назад

Link it to quantum leap symphonic choirs, that would sound aqesome!!!

@MaxMellen 11 лет назад

March 31st fool's eve FTW

@AntiProtonBoy 13 лет назад

And you know the funny thing is, it's technically possible to build something similar like that.

@Chillyjillymi 3 года назад

If i wouldn't have read the comments I would have thought it's true 😂

@TsaritsaLuna 13 лет назад

Did anyone else notice that "Iso Directional Inductive Oscillator Technology" Spells IDIOT?

@LeeGee 13 лет назад

Lovely! What was that, I.D.I.O..? Thanks!

@zachpowell6336 2 года назад

I'm so mad I got punked by this over a decade after it was posted

@theremin137 13 лет назад

"Iso Directional Inductive Oscillator Technology" or "A Pretty Radical Idea Leads, Followers Ought Only Listen..." ~ ~ ~ Absolutely brilliant ~ ~ ~

@GenuineSoundware 13 лет назад

Iso Directional Inductive Oscillator Technology = I.D.I.O.T. Hahahaha!!! Genius! :)

@chrisstory69 9 лет назад

These guys rule, haha

@KimFTW0 13 лет назад

Haha her named sounded like Dodge Chrysler. Nice prank :)

@lucianovandekerkhove4163 3 года назад

ha... ha... sooo funnyyy... now make it real please

@unfinishedideas2 11 лет назад

You guys have to make this now. You realize this right? haha

@electro808kat 7 лет назад

April Fools.

@ThomasGrillo 13 лет назад

This was the greatest theremin related April fools gag I've ever seen to date. Well done! ;)

@joelplutchak 13 лет назад

"Quite honestly, I thought they were joking." LOL

@madamerotten 13 лет назад

Hahahahahahaha! I love how April 1st just sorta creeps up on ya. Bob is laughing in heaven, I am certain! Iso Directional Inductive Oscillator Technology (IDIOT).

@yayharekrishna 13 лет назад

man. i totally fell for this. BUT AT LEAST I DON'T HAVE HERPES!

@fast328 13 лет назад

Awesome. Just wish it didn't sound out of tune all the time.

@synthlab 13 лет назад

Old news! Already available as an iPad app ...

@madamerotten 13 лет назад

@bryceHUHwhat You can indeed achieve directionality of capacitive sensing with a technique known as a "driven shield." NASA uses something similar for sensing in robotic systems. (Google "Capaciflector.") John Vranish at Goddard Space Flight Center invented this concept. While the technique may be applied to a polyphonic theremin (for example, one tone per finger), even Leon Theremin, himself, dismissed the usefulness of such a concept, since he considered such an instrument unplayable.