Moog Werkstatt is discontinued

[Gone Fission]

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Get ‘em on holiday sale for $160 while they last. I fear flipper hoarding.

[MrNovember]

I was thinking about selling mine too, but I guess I'd better keep it now

[cosmicevan]

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Get ‘em on holiday sale for $160 while they last. I fear flipper hoarding.

I wanted to snag this and build it up with my kids and then hopefully they'd catch the bleep bloop bug, but best I can find them is that $159 but no one will take a coupon on top of that and with taxes and shipping, I'm spending $200 so gonna pass. I also looked and seems like the put together part is like 5 screws with a screwdriver, I thought we might have some snapping in of resistors or something...

Do still want one, but GAS must be controlled a little bit, right?

I'm sure they will go up in selling price over time, but maybe not, it isn't like the moogerfoogers where people can have a real use for them. The werkstaat is just like a desktop drone synth, right?

[MrNovember]

Yeah I bought the kit and it really was not an involved build at all. It’s a little more in depth than a desktop drone synth, though. Pretty much a full semi-modular synth with a tiny keyboard, envelope, LFO, filter, etc.

[cosmicevan]

If I get one, is there any point to going new then? I kinda really want one, but don't need it...but I know with the discontinuation it's kinda now or pay too much later.

[MrNovember]

If you don't really care about building it yourself, I'd say to just try to find one at a good price. Like I said, the build is pretty simple, but it's still fun. You can build it with like next to no DIY skill, but still feel like a DIYer. If you're just looking for one on Reverb or locally, I would make sure to get one with the expander. It's not really essential, but I much prefer the 1/4" jacks to the little wires

[Bartimaeus]

yeah, it's only DIY in the lightest sense, i'm not sure how much satisfaction you can get from just screwing it together. depends on the person.

but it's also a euro-friendly moog voice, and for cheaper than a lot of euro oscillators... i may grab one while they're around.

[coupleonapkins]

Most of the Werkstatts sold as New have the expander included as a bundle, which wasn't initially in the original run FWIW - having the euro-friendly jacks is very convenient, as I had a time fussing with the smaller Bastl pin-based synths myself.

It's possible Moog will revive it as they did with the Moogerfooger circuits, which were all discontinued for size & parts sourcing issues, and all of those eventually became the Minifoogers (albeit with less patching functionality and refined definition of most of the effects).

That being said, a beefed-up Werkstatt is probably in the cards someday, as it's been the intermediary/gateway non-app based device for people who don't want to spend $600 on a Mother or DFAM, and it's still a great Moog voice, nonetheless

[MrNovember]

From what Moog have said, I'm pretty sure a beefed up Werkstatt is a Mother32

[coupleonapkins]

From what Moog have said, I'm pretty sure a beefed up Werkstatt is a Mother32

I doubt Moog would ever go the Pocket Operator route (especially since the DIYness of the Werkstatt is probably keeping the price low), but you may have just convinced me otherwise.

I also know it’s not their job to offer every tier of synth for every price point, but I like to daydream sometimes.

But I’ll have to snag one before the year is over (for keeps this time), as I enjoyed it as a main brain in the past.