2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
8GB memory
256GB Solid State Drive
USB2/Firewire800
Mini Displayport Video
State of the Art Performance Instrument
The OMG-1 is a stunning custom hardware synthesizer created by Eric Persing that integrates the worlds of analog synthesis, computers, software synthesis and the latest multi-touch surfaces into one extraordinary instrument. Persing designed it as a live performance instrument, and it is not a commercial product — it's truly one-of-a-kind. The state of the art dual manual OMG-1 combines a Moog Little Phatty® analog synthesizer, Spectrasonics' flagship Omnisphere® software synthesizer, a powerful internal Apple Mac Mini computer, dual Apple iPads®, dual iPods®, and Spectrasonics' Omni TR™ iPad app — all integrated into a beautiful, hand-crafted curly maple cabinet created by American artisan Daniel Auon.
"I'll never forget the first time I played a Minimoog when I was a little kid…it truly changed my life!" says Eric Persing, Founder and Creative Director of Spectrasonics, "So it's a privilege after all these years to give back to the foundation honoring my hero Bob Moog and keeping the spirit and history of his inventions alive for the next generation. I had a blast designing the OMG-1 with Dan and we wish Grand Prize winner Torley Wong many years of inspiration with it!"
Michelle Moog-Koussa, Executive Director of the Bob Moog Foundation noted, "We are grateful to Eric Persing for creating and sharing this one-of-a-kind innovative instrument. The foundation's mission is to ignite creativity at the intersection of music, science, history and innovation. It is fitting that Eric's OMG-1 does just that. His instrument represents the contemporary convergence of analog and digital, hardware and software. I think Bob would applaud Eric's efforts to transcend boundaries in order to create an instrument with new and unique capabilities."
Michelle Moog-Koussa, Daniel Auon and Eric Persing at NAMM 2011
Eric Persing gives a quick tour of the OMG-1
Frequently Asked Questions about the OMG-1
You can't. :-) It's a one-of-a-kind custom instrument.
No. There's no affiliation between Spectrasonics and Moog Music (which makes hardware synths). The OMG-1 is just a personal custom project of Eric Persing's and he donated it for this contest to raise money for the Bob Moog Foundation.
As a way of saying thanks for the inspiration that Bob Moog's life and work as an American inventor has meant to his career with synthesizers and electronic music. Spectrasonics simply would not exist without Bob Moog and we are a result of his legacy. The Bob Moog Foundation is very much about keeping the creative spirit of innovation in Electronic Music alive and at Spectrasonics, we are all very much behind their mission of inspiring the next generation.
No. The Bob Moog Foundation is a separate entity from Moog Music and is a 501( c )(3) non-profit organization. Spectrasonics is partnering with the Bob Moog Foundation for this benefit, not with Moog Music.
No. The instrument would be way too costly to produce and market commercially!
Priceless! :-)
The raw materials cost alone is well over $7,000. Then add to that the labor time of 8
months of custom engineering and craftsmanship of Eric and Daniel and you can see that
the raw labor and materials cost alone is extremely high. Since it's a one-of-a-kind
instrument, that makes it even more valuable!
To extend the range of the keys, since 3 octaves on the Little Phatty keyboard is fairly limiting for polyphonic playing. Each keyboard can be transposed independently.
They can be used for any MIDI control surface apps or additional soundsources.
The Little Phatty outputs MIDI polyphonically.
Omnisphere runs on the internal Mac Mini computer. It can be controlled from seven places:
Of course! It's possible to run any iOS app and any Mac or Windows software on the internal Mac Mini…whatever you like, even Pro Tools!