Review: Moog Subharmonicon
Moog continues its series of Eurorack-compatible desktop synthesizers with the Subharmonicon. The new companion to Mother-32 and DFAM also offers an innovative concept: two analog oscillators have been supplemented by two tunable subharmonics each. Combined with the four individual step sequencers, Subharmonicon aims to create extraordinary polyrhythmic patterns and arpeggios.
Subharmonics/Undertones
Subharmonicon combines the terms Subharmonic and Rhythmicon. The latter is the name of one of the first electronic musical instruments, released in 1931 and is the quasi-forefather of drum computers. As with the Trautonium, which is one year older, the sound generation was based on subharmonics. These are undertones that are generated by dividing the frequency of an oscillator and can be mixed with the fundamental. In an inflexible form, this is known as the suboscillator in many classic analog synthesizers. Moog has taken up this
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