Analogue Heaven The Museum of Synthesizer Technology

The Museum of Synthesizer Technology was opened by synth pioneer Bob Moog in 1994, in a leafy part of Berkshire UK. The museum offered the largest collections of analogue synths ever assembled, and this video features an insight into the museum and demonstrations of some of the classic analogue synths from distinguished keyboard players such as Jonn Savannah (ex-Squeeze, Lene Lovich, Jona Lewie,Nik Kershaw, Stephen "Tintin" Duffy, ABC, Van Morrison, Melanie C, The Catch), Nick Magnus (Steve Hackett, China Crisis), Rick Smith (Freur, Underworld), Bob Moog himself, keyboard wizard and author Julian Colbeck (Yes, Steve Hackett), author Matthias Becker, and Paul Wiffen, well-known music journalist for Sound On Sound magazine, demonstrator for the EDP Wasp and co-creator of the OSC Oscar synth, and patch programmer for the Elka Synthex.

Synths featured are Moog System 3, Buchla, ARP 2600, EMS Synthi, Yamaha CS80, EDP Wasp Deluxe, Elka Synthex, Moog Memorymoog, Roland VP330 Vocoder, Minimoog, Prophet 5, ARP Odyssey.

The museum closed its doors in 1998 and became a studio specialising in Analogue Synths, this is a great chance to pick up a fascinating souvenir of what was a great assembly of analogue synths.

This is a revised release as the original video is long deleted, this contains over 50 minutes of original footage, plus a 10 minute peak at the vast synths in the collection, along with another 10 minute documentary on the studio. Finally you get another 30 minutes or so of some of the full demonstrations of the PPG, Synthex and Wasp, along with Julian Colbeck playing on the Prophet 5, Minimoog and Odyssey