Polymoog Resonator Section

This is an unplanned demo I threw together today of a Polymoog 3 Band Resonator that I ripped out of my Polymoog and built into a stand-alone unit for processing sounds. It consists of three filters in parallel which all be switched to lowpass, bandpass, or highpass modes. Each filter has three controls: frequency, resonance, and amplitude. It's one of the unique things about the Polymoog synthesizer which you don't find in any other polyphonic analog synth.

What happened to the rest of my Polymoog? I used the Polymoog case to built a coffee table, of which you can see a few pictures at the end of the video. That was sold off. The rest of my Polymoog was sold for parts to quite a few people. My Polymoog just had too many problems to bother putting in the time and effort to fix.

NOTE: Juergen Haible decided to design a Polymoog Resonator PCB so people can build their own if they buy all the parts. For info and to order a board, you can visit the link to the forum thread below:

http://www.electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32236&postorder=asc

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• polymoog
• synth
• synthesizer
• resonator
• formant

[samealalan]

i want that. like bad. i got a poly, but it's in great shape, and wouldn't break it.

i wish i could get a broken poly for something close to a real price instead of inflated b.s.

[Elhardt]

@samealalan After I cut the resonator out of my Polymoog to create the stand-alone unit, Juergen Haible created a PCB that you can buy and stuff with the electronics and create your own front panel to build your own. And COTK (Club of the Knobs), a modular synthesizer company came out with a Polymoog resonator module you can buy. It's seen in the upper right corner of this video: watch?v=sl37XQfkJCQ

And since you have a Polymoog, you can process external sounds through the resonator.

[samealalan]

@Elhardt cool. is the cotk module called "resonators"? I've been after a modular for a bit. need some cash. and running things through the poly is awesome, but having a much more portable section would be double that!

[Elhardt]

@samealalan Yeah, I think they call it the PM Resonator. PM being short for Polymoog. It came out after I posted this youtube video. So I've influenced a lot of people I guess. It's a direct clone of the Polymoog Resonator section and I think it might also have the preset filters too, like for brass, harpsichord, etc. You should be able to Google for them and get to their site for more details.

[ToxicBrainSludge]

'tube' should have read 'tuba'

i'm figuring that there is no key following going on here, i'm just surprised at how a fixed filter bank can seem to change a synthetic brass sound into a real sounding brass.

[Elhardt]

@ToxicBrainSludge  Yeah, there is no key following. Formants are generally resonances at fixed frequencies, or in the case of human voices they can change to produce different vowels. I guess it's that most people aren't used to using anything more than a lowpass filter since that's the only thing most synths provide. But acoustic instruments are more complex than that, so more complex filtering leads to more realistic acoustic type sounds.

[XYtoTheDoubleG]

@annacarinaleon my sister did not make this post.....

[annacarinaleon]

Man!!! that Jupiter through the resonator sounds awesome! I wish you could still buy one of those!! Amazing how the Jupiter sounds through that thing. Really sounds like a orchestra!

[RFreigeldorff]

I am speechless..

[felipesancho]

he he he, that embalmed polymoog is actually pretty cool...