Google Moogle Doodle

[Rook]

This morning, in celebration of the birthday of the wonderful Bob Moog, Google's homepage features a playable, tweakable, recordable(!) minimoog.

Aint technology a wonderful thing.

/R

[Pedro]

Indeed. Four track recordable too!

All I can say is :-  q t 8 i o i 8 t q (repeat)

Shame it's not responsive enough to play it at the right speed....but lovely tribute.

[Brom]

     Made my day!!!!!

[rogerg]

cool!  and ironically, I had to use Firefox to get it to work...   8-)

[Trapezium Artist]

Jolly cool: before Google takes it off their page, which clever bugger can make a copy of the underlying code and make it available via a hidden button on the Frost* page?  

Google does archive these doodles, but it's not obvious whether the interactive ones work. For example, the recent lovely one commemorating Gideon Sundback's anniversary and his invention of the zip no longer functions (sadly):

http://http://www.google.com/doodles/gideon-sundbacks-132nd-birthday

Or am I missing something?  :?

Edit: I noticed that when I opened the Moog doodle with my default browser, Safari, it has the blessed cheek to say "Upgrade to a modern browser and see what this doodle can really do", where the first part was a link to Chrome.

So I dutifully fired up Chrome to see what else it could do: unless I'm missing something (again), the answer is nothing. In fact, Chrome is less capable, because you can only play the synth via the mouse with Chrome, whereas Safari allows you to use the keyboard. Pah ... !

[danofmayz]

'Twas a lovely surprise when I logged on this morning  

[rogerg]

Edit: I noticed that when I opened the Moog doodle with my default browser, Safari, it has the blessed cheek to say "Upgrade to a modern browser and see what this doodle can really do", where the first part was a link to Chrome.

So I dutifully fired up Chrome to see what else it could do: unless I'm missing something (again), the answer is nothing. In fact, Chrome is less capable, because you can only play the synth via the mouse with Chrome, whereas Safari allows you to use the keyboard. Pah ... !

that was my experience, as well, except I couldn't get Safari to work either.  I had to use Firefox...  a bit ironic, na?  

[Mooncat]

Not at all Prog, but Brett Domino has posted a youtube video of him doing a Daft Punk track using the google doodle.
Up to his usual bizarre standard
Sorry can't post a link, but youtube is blocked at work(and I forgot last night) :?

[Mikey]

This might help

http://http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Music/2012/0523/Bob-Moog-How-to-play-the-Moog-doodle