Grandmother’s semi-modular design means you can start playing immediately without the need to manually patch and route any signals. But should you want dive deeper into creating more complex sounds, Grandmother features 41 individual patch points that will override the internal wiring, leading to expansion possibilities that are only limited by your imagination. Even if you’re only familiar with the basic building blocks of an analog synthesizer, the Grandmother welcomes an experimental approach that can turn into incredibly inspiring sounds. In addition, the 21 inputs, 16 outputs and a parallel-wired 4-jack mult, can be used to expand the Grandmother into a larger Eurorack ecosystem, or is the perfect patch point to integrate with Moog Mother-32 or DFAM semi-modular synthesizers.

Diving deeper

The team at Moog thought of everything here. Knowing that most sound designers would use a spring reverb effect on a synth of this nature, they’ve gone ahead and added an onboard analog spring reverb tank capable of processing internal and external sounds. It’s a welcomed addition, with the ability to add some darker tones or tame any intense frequencies. Grandmother also features a built-in arpeggiator and an onboard sequencer that can store up to 3 sequences with up to 256 notes each. Add this to your Eurorack ecosystem and you’ll have full control over all of your modules.