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The Table of Animoog Presets v1.6 Released: over 3,148 Presets and 5,129 Timbres

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I’m happy to write to you and I bring good news: an updated version of the Table of Animoog Presets, adding 572 new presets and 274 new timbres to Animoog from 6 expansion packs. This table that I’m gladly compiling for the community of Animoog players now lists a total of 3,148 presets and 5,129 timbres for Animoog. This gives us access to a large diversity of presets to explore for hours and hours.

Here’s the six new Animoog packs available.

Song-Haven MPE

The new  Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression (MPE) MIDI version of the Song-Haven pack bring 50 new presets to Animoog for $6,99. We were lucky to have Steffen Presley explaining the process to configure presets for the MPE MIDI standard supported by lots of interesting controllers such as the LinnStrument and the Seaboard.

Animaal

Then there came the wonderful sounds of animals with the Animaal pack from Terra Nova Music which brings 55 new presets and 134 new timbres for $3,99.

For this Animaal pack announced in October 2016, I presented three improvised solos done with the Animaal Animoog presets. Here’s a fourth one with Animaal’s Ear Worm preset:

RUST(i)K X & K

Sound designer RUST(i)K brought us the X & K pack which contains 251 new Animoog presets and 159 new timbres, available for free — RUST(i)K suggests a donation. RUST(i)K previously shared with us two large free Animoog packs, download them today :-)

Here’s a track I improvised for this announcement, played with the preset named ‘Bass Oh Boy 2.0’ from the RUST(i)K X pack:

analogue, I wish you were: Otherness and Stranger Things

Just like last year, ‘analogue, I wish you were’ brings us two new packs of Animoog presets, Otherness and Stranger Things with respectively 119 and 25 new Animoog presets and available for $1,99 and $1 on Bandcamp. It’s the first time we mention those new packs, let’s look at their descriptions:

  • Otherness: “119 presets containing otherworldly textures, ambient pads, unruly FX, and many other eccentric sounds only Animoog could produce!”
  • Stranger Things: “22 presets inspired by the warm vintage mood of the “Stranger Things” Netflix series soundtrack”

I like these presets. The following track is an improvised solo played with the Animoog preset named ‘PWM soft chords’ from William McFarland / analogue, I wish you were’s Otherness pack:

 

Anigrit

Sound designer Sound of Izrael gave us 121 free Animoog presets last year, this time he’s back with a new pack named Anigrit, which brings an additional 75 new presets and is sold for $5,99 on eBay. It’s the first time we mention these presets on Animoog.org, but for those amongst us whom couldn’t wait, we mentioned it on Twitter as soon as they became available:

Here’s the video presenting the new Anigrit presets in a nice track created entirely with those new Anigrit presets:

 

Table of Animoog Presets version 1.6

With all those new packs, here’s what the new version looks like:

Animoog Expansion Packs table

The permanent webpage for the Table of Presets and Timbres is found here

and it provides direct download links to these presets packs, contains guidelines for submitting presets along with some more info. Don’t forget the instructions to easily install those presets on your iPad without relying on iTunes.

Players will also be happy to hear that since my last blog entry, two minor versions of Animoog have been released, version 2.4.6 in April and 2.4.7 in June, bringing minor bugfixes and one small feature for those wanting to play along with existing tracks: Animoog now allows Apple Music to continue playing when Animoog is in the foreground. Animoog for iPhone followed the same path and got the same new feature, reporting now as version 1.3.3.

I read reports that the current version of Animoog doesn’t support iOS 11, Apple’s upcoming iOS version currently only available as a public beta. It’s extremely likely that Moog Music will update Animoog over the coming weeks to fix compatibility issues with iOS 11 before it launches.

Enjoy the new Animoog presets! — Alex / Satri

Related posts:

  1. New Free Packs: 2,576 Animoog Presets Now Available — Major Update v1.5
  2. New Free Packs: 2,224 Animoog Presets Now Available — Major Update
  3. Announcing the ‘Animaal’ Animoog Presets and Timbres
  4. RUST(i)K X & K: 251 New Animoog Presets and 159 New Timbres

Altermoog – 30 New Free Presets for Animoog and Version 1.1 of the List of 3rd-Party Presets

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Rejoice! Zen Lizard announced its 30 free presets for Animoog.

« Resonant basses & cutting leads take full advantage of the highly playable keyboard and sound fantastic. Completely free for everyone! »

These great news required me to proceed with the first update to the recently introduced list of Expansion Packs for Animoog, now at version 1.1., where you’ll find plenty other  sources of free presets for our beloved instrument. There were several improvements to the list, including the addition of Moog’s BASE Pack which was missing from the initial release of the table. Thanks to an anonymous user comment , we now have the associated URLs for this BASE Pack.

If you’re aware of other sources of free presets or would like to share corrections, please let me know! Enjoy the new Altermoog presets!

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  2. 1,713 Presets: a Major Update to List of Animoog Expansion Packs
  3. New Free Packs: 2,224 Animoog Presets Now Available — Major Update
  4. Step-by-step Instructions to Install Third-Party Animoog Presets and Timbres with iFunbox
Animoog Expansion Packs table

Introducing the Exhaustive list of Animoog Expansion Packs

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Would you believe that expansion packs provide over 1,300 new presets and over 4,700 new timbres for you to play with in Animoog? Here’s significant value on Animoog.org for Animoog users – an exhaustive list of Animoog expansion packs documentation. Why it’s useful?

« Lots of expansion packs can be purchased and installed directly from within the Animoog app under the ‘STORE’ tab, however, several high-quality presets and timbres are not available from within the app itself — that’s the value of the following table, to help us find those valuable gems no matter where they hide! »

Instead of copying the whole new page, just take a look at it.  It’s far from what I had in mind initially, but what matters is that it exists now, and thanks to community contributions, I hope it’s going to dramatically improve over time!

The new table is available as a png, a pdf and as an interactive table. The content of the table is also available on Github. As usual, any contribution is welcomed.

Other recent updates on Animoog.org

There were also a few other significant improvements to the site, such as more precise Welcome page indicating what is actually available on the site vs what is planned. I also added a new section in the Animoog improvements wish list regarding inter-app connectivity.

Take care! — Alex, aka Satri

Related posts:

  1. 1,713 Presets: a Major Update to List of Animoog Expansion Packs
  2. New Expansion Packs Table version 1.3, including new ‘Vector Universe’ Presets
  3. Altermoog – 30 New Free Presets for Animoog and Version 1.1 of the List of 3rd-Party Presets
  4. Animoog Improvements Wish List Updated

4,300 Free Timbres for Animoog!

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I wasn’t planning to spend time on documenting Animoog timbres before addressing expansion packs and presets… but an unexpected pleasant surprise over the Moog Forums led me to share with you Adventure Kid’s 4,300 free timbres now converted for Animoog and available under a Creative Commons license.

Head to the new Timbres page for the download links and all the details.

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  1. New Free Theremini Presets, from Steffen Presley
  2. Animoog solos: free ‘Unanimoog, escape inside the music’ album
  3. Altermoog – 30 New Free Presets for Animoog and Version 1.1 of the List of 3rd-Party Presets
  4. Announcing ‘Pianimoog •• discoverY’, Free MIDI-Controlled Animoog Solos
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Announcing Animoog.org

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Are we ready to launch? No. But this has to happen at some point in time, and this is now.

There are hundreds and hundreds of Animoog presets and timbres. There are also plenty of expansion packs, some of them are not available for purchase from within the app and are very difficult to find if no one tells you about them. The intention behind Animoog.org is to help Animoog users and fans to find information about presets, expansion packs and everything Animoog. The database and site is mostly empty at the moment. Content sections will be improved and launched in the coming weeks / months as time permits — and with some of your help, we’ll make it useful much quicker.

The objective is to use crowdsourcing to gather information about Animoog’s content. Just like anyone can improve Wikipedia, anyone is welcomed to contribute to Animoog.org. The more users contribute, the better the content will become. Specifically, documentation of Animoog presets and expansion packs, to start with, is stored in openly-licensed Database — meaning the content will forever legally remain available to everyone at no cost.

And there’s more! You’ll find the Animoog Users Map, mainly for fun and to feel part of the community, you’ll find Animoog users and players in your area, Moog shops and events, etc. Add yourself to the map with a few clicks! On this site, you’ll also find what can be expected, such as tips, a blog, pertinent links, and even a wish list for Animoog. You can also stay in touch with Animoog.org via Twitter and Facebook.

So, this is just the beginning. Ideas and suggestions are always welcomed. If you’d like to contribute to this Animoog community, drop me a line, the content will improve much faster with contributions from fellow Animoog enthusiasts :-)

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Related posts:

  1. Introducing the Exhaustive list of Animoog Expansion Packs
  2. Announcing the Animoog Users Map!
  3. Announcing the iOS Music World Map
  4. Contribute to the Animoog article on Wikipedia