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sometimes in life you might get asked a
question along the lines of Alex would
you like to borrow a vintage kear and
the answer to that sort of question is
Julian clear my schedule and fetch me my
disco glasses
so the kear or the keyboard if you will
is in equal parts intriguing and silly
uh kind of like this channel actually
and the origins are a little bit
subjective You could argue it's acoustic
instruments like the oraca or even the
accordion but I would argue it's things
like the velt Meister bassit or the tub
bond from the 1960s something
significant that happened in the early '
7s was that Edgar Winter modified the
keyboard from his AR 2600 with a guitar
strap and an extended cable so that he
could Groove around thle and whilst the
sound was still coming from the synths
way back Yonder he had the keys and he
had the performance control so as a
concept it worked and he wasn't the only
one George Juke did this as did Roger
pal with a custommade unit called the
pow probe which for all intents and
purposes was a kear and so companies
thought why don't we start making these
things and the earliest example of a
factory made kear appears to be the
Hillwood Rocky board made in Japan in
1977
shortly after came the Davis clavar
which again was a controller and again
was used by George juk and then a really
interesting Moment In 1978 a British
company called KMI developed an
instrument that they called the kear it
appears that they came up with that name
other companies were calling it portable
performance instrument or something of
that nature and their unit was used by
Rick waitman 1979 we get the first
self-contained synthesizer which was
also a kear which is the cintar made by
George Matson and then in 1980 Moog
thought why don't we make one of these
things so they did
so The Liberation so named because one
is liberated from one's keyboard stand
and one can struth one's stuth now the
origin of this instrument is a little
bit muddled and confusing and a huge
thank you to Mark doe at automatic
gainsay for actually giving me the
answer to this you would be forgiven for
thinking it's a Moog Rogue that's been
modified and put into a kear case it's
not the Rogue came later and is
something else this actually came from
an instrument called the ssk which Moog
Never released or finished and we only
know about it because the Bob Moog
Foundation has the schematics for it
also the Moog Prodigy shares circuitry
with the Moog Liberation so presumably
that was also developed from the ssk as
well and by the way there is a keyboard
Le expander module version of The
Prodigy a prototype still exists I've
seen it in the flesh I took these photos
uh and it is not a custom job it's a
factorymade unit so the plot thickens so
you start with this rack mount unit and
you can't use the Liberation without it
one it provides the power to The
Liberation but two it's also where the
audio comes out and interestingly there
is a little interface on here with CV
and Trigger output so you can play other
synthesizers from The Liberation the
synth itself is a very simple two
oscillator monos synth with
sync
noise and rig
mulation there's your CL classic M
gladder filter an amp couple of
envelopes and some basic modulation but
there is a little trick up its sleeve at
the end of the mixer section there is a
slider called
poly and sure enough there is a very
primitive poly synth built into the
Liberation it runs through the one
filter and is affected by the envelope
generators so it's a paraphonic
articulative affair but it's better than
nothing so what happens if you turn up
the oscillators which are monophonic and
the poly section at the same time well
there is a high note priority so you can
play chords with the poly section and
then play A Melody over the
top it's really clunky and you can hear
that that high note priority causes the
oscillators to jump around all over the
place but it gave you something to play
with okay now the unusual bit the neck
so we've got three mod Wheels firstly
volume self-explanatory then we've got a
filter cut
off which is the only one which Springs
back to a zero position then if we set
something to a wheel we've got a mod
wheel uh then we've got the pitch ribbon
straight off the poly Moog and the
microG and the
multimo uh which works with the
oscillators but not the poly section
we've got a glide on and off which has a
slider here
pretty obvious and then we've got a
section called Force which
disappointingly has nothing to do with
Star Wars so this is actually after
touch so if we set the oscillator to
force for example uh and then use the
aftertouch
Luke we can
apply modulation with aftertouch
or we can
bend so then if you're talented and
clever
you can put that all together into an
interesting performance unfortunately
I'm not talented neither am I clever so
I'll do something pretty
terrible je Michelle eat your heart out
in fact speaking of Jean Michelle jahw
he is one of the famous users of The
Liberation and even had a Fe Fe in his
life set where he would bring it to the
front of the stage and let rip and The
Liberation was a moderate success it was
used by quite a lot of big names
including James Brown which is fantastic
Papa's Got a Brand New synth and of
course into the80s kear took off and
were everywhere and you can still buy
brand new Kars to this very day so there
we go the Moog Liberation a curious
creation making sounds throughout the
nation if you like the sound of the MOG
Liberation I've made a couple of contact
patches
as ever that's available on the top tier
of my patreon huge thank you to my
patrons for their ongoing support thank
you to you for watching and thank you to
the owner of this rather charismatic
instrument cheers
oh oh
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