@natehorn thanks for the clarification on the firmware thing and for validating that it has a decent sound palette. I like polymeter very much!
Great music by the way, lovely ambient textures.
I have a long way to go!
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Thank you! If you can get one second hand then you can explore it fairly guilt-free and sell it on once you’ve had enough of it, I can appreciate it’s a synth that probably clicks more with some people than others.
RLY? Cool - although I do quite like the use-it-or-lose-it nature of that behaviour.
Yea it was an issue with how it read the position of the knobs. Technically you never really lost anything, but you might have sometimes needed to ‘re-register’ the position of the sequencer knobs by twisting them a bit.
There is something nice about an ephemeral patch though 
I got this weird thing about doing things the hard way.
So I have trouble with the Subharmonicon and trying to tackle the dual 4 step sequencer.
That being said, this is the synth that I keep trying to get on top of. And I lightly rage quit usually, but I always leave with something.
It’s a great arp machine and you can get percussion out of her as well
I bought one yesterday and I’m already having fun, although I can see it’s going to take a bit of time and patience. I also have no idea what firmware I’m on and I don’t have a USB-to-MIDI cabe to update it. Still, it seems to be behaving OK as far as I can tell.
I’d like to applaud Moog for including a good old-fashioned paper manual. It’s a bit curved because it can’t quite fit in the box flat but that’s a minor niggle!
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New knob kit to replace those little black knobs.
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DFAM too! Nice.
Anybody know if you can still see the lines on the SH after putting these new knobs on? The lines are kind of useful in terms of tuning the steps – I could do it by ear, too, of course, but I like to also get some visual feedback from the lines as I set the steps up.
Pictures from the Mavis suggest yes, though the graphics are different on the SH. DFAM has no lines – so no problem there.
They come with a white dot on them.
Oh, I meant the tick marks on the panel, not on the knob itself. Do those extend outside the radius of the knob?
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I am getting two packs of knobs on Monday. I will post pics.
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The best performances I´ve heard on SubH and DFAM
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Yes!!
I feel that if I go more restrained with the Subharmonicon, Ican get more out of by playing the filter verses the octaves.
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Pic is weird because of how the iPhone processes images, but you can see the tick marks very well, and with the knobs, I just realized that the marks are represented BETWEEN the lines.
The knobs slip right on the knurled grooves and line up with the existing knob marking perfectly.
Edit: okay, now that I’ve got them on, I will say that the pots do have some play to them that is accented by the extra leverage of the bigger knob.
Also, you are able to jam them down and cause some rubbing. I’m actually considering getting a hole puncher and tossing in a couple punched holes from the paper from the holes to raise the knob up a touch.
Does this sound like a good plan?
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Thanks! That is super useful information. I’m glad the ticks clearly show, and it seems it may even be easier to use the ticks as guides with larger knobs.
In terms of paper punch holes – I suspect whatever you shove up there would be just as effective as little paper circles. Though the paper circles do have a certain ‘fits-just-right’ aesthetic…
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So I cut some graph paper, but the knobs have enough space and there is still some light rubbing at times.
Then, I was thinking. These are mine, and it’s so much nicer with the knobs now, so fuck it.
If it rubs, it rubs.
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Is it a thing where you can not press it down all the way and it’ll be fine?
Kind of annoying that they just have a set of 25 though. It’s not enough knobs to cover both the DFAM and Subharmonicon so you’d have to buy two packs and have extras, I guess.
Or two dfamˋs + a subharmonicon and two packs of knobs
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I feel like it catches low on the knurled knob.
I’m not sure stuffing paper actually did anything.
And I bought two packs, and it came out exact for 2 DFAMs and a Subharmonicon.
It’s 16 + 3 per DFAM if you do the two oscillator and noise level knobs.
And 12 for the Sub