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| moogOSCar - a 20year old prototype | |
| about 12 years ago a was the proud owner of a real OSCar. after doing a lot of songs with it, i sold it for a good price but regregged it later. the sound of this synth is so unique, you cant replace it with anything else. Here is a pic of it. |  |
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in september 2005 i saw a ... in a music-magazine. after some emails i have bought kind of prototype of an OSCar. it is a real one, the pcb is exactly as the original one. of course it didnt work and it was dirty and looking awful. it had made a long journey from the US over here to germany. to the right you see the original state. |
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the first thing was to rip everything in pieces (after carefully documenting the wiring) the old frontpanel was unreadable and trn apart. unfortunately is was glued to the case. it took 3 hours to get this 20 year old glue off. |
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i decided to get the new frontpanel professionally manufactured from schaeffer apparatebau. the result is just amazingly perfect! i will never make a front panel with inkjet and drill for myself.
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| a pic of the interiour. a lot of potis had to be replaced. but most of them were encapsulated and therefore didnt suffer from the dust of the years. |  |
| a pic from the inside |  |
| a pic of the soldering side of the multiplexer board. this must have been soldered by someone with a LOT of patience |  |
| here is a pic of the moogoscar in the new proper, fully functional condition. |  |
| a detail of the frontplate |  |
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Here is a sound example of it. A 5 minute arpeggio-meditation. Just the OSCar through a Line 6 Echo Park ... and another example: live played bagpipesound making use of the duophonic-feature of the OSCar |
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