by ClavAnother » Thu Jun 27, 2013 5:59 am
Well, I just spent two hours with it trying to assimilate it into the gig rig. I think it will work out nicely.
So, anyway, you get two octaves of keys, but you can set the bend range to a full octave giving you instant access to four octaves for leads; also, the bender is happy to do half or whole step at this range by barely activating the wheel. That said, you have the octave range selectors right under the bender wheel, so you can also go that route. If you hold a key and hit the range switch, you will not hear the octave change until you retrigger a note, so you can anticipate a shift and prepare for it. I believe its useful.
They did a great job as far as having access to all parameters nearby. The hold switch in the back sets you up for modulation madness, and back again very quickly.
I think that it is a quite musical tool, and I am looking forward to bringing it on stage tomorrow night. It will be a relief to not have to bring the Liberation to gigs.
Oh, and it fits in my soft briefcase. I would like to get a hard case soon though. The Liberation hard case is longer, thicker, and heavier than a standard guitar case, plus set up time with regards to a rack mount power supply (that I was standing on end behind my pedal board) and a hard to replace cable all made me apprehensive about the Moog as well.