Moog Spectravox: a vocoder, a filter or a modular synth? What exactly is it? – Hands-on review

First seen as a DIY project at Moogfest 2019, Moog's Spectravox has been MIA for the past 5 years. Now it's back as a full, non-DIY product. But what actually is it and what can it do? In this video we explore the basic workflow and discuss whether this first release since the InMusic takeover of Moog holds up to the company's standards.

In this video:
00:11 – Backstory: a brief history of Spectravox
04:01 – Build quality
08:24 – Demo 1: Spectravox as a percussion generator
09:09 – What is it and how does it work?
18:39 – Spectravox and DFAM
30:39 – Demo 2: Spectravox sequenced by DFAM
31:49 – Pros, cons and verdict
35:55 – Demo 3: Spectravox as a sequenced vocoder
36:44 – Demo 4: Spectravox processing DFAM as a filter bank
39:25 – Demo 5: More DFAM and Spectravox