Vintage Synth Explorer

Moog • Opus-3

The Opus-3 is one great little synth. It was designed by Herbert A. Deutsch from Hofstra University who originally nudged Dr. Robert Moog into building synthesizers and later served as director of sales & marketing for Moog Music. Herb also wrote the owner's manual. The sounds are broken up into 3 categories: Strings, Brass and Organ. Strings and Brass have their own separate VCF filter sections, the Organ section has none. The Opus-3 also has 2 sound outputs for an early stereo effect with panning! It's a colorful little synth with clearly laid out sliders and is fairly straight forward. It has classic analog Moog sound quality and is a great source of some string and lower octave techno-organ sounds. It is used by Stereolab, Kraftwerk, Zonetech, 808 State and The Rentals.

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Curtis Black

Posted 43 days ago

oh.....the love affair I had with this synth. Such a fun sounding unit with full polyphony. And the filter.....it could really conjure up some "won't get fooled again moments" when the lights were dim. Had two and couldn't for the life of my keep one working right for more than two months. I spent probably 8-12 hours trying to get the horrid, melted rubber foam off the circuit boards. Anyways....beautiful sounding thing. Never buy one off eBay and sample it the moment you get it. The memory of my two Opuses lives within the digitized realm of Kontakt now.

zauh

Posted 362 days ago

I have had an opus-3 for a couple of years now and love it.

Kirk Slinkard

Posted 369 days ago

An organ through mono synth processors. It's resonant bandpass filter gives some nasty wah effects. Classic string synth. You can use it just as a combo organ if you want. I will never sell mine.

jd

Posted 390 days ago

full polyphony, moog filter, cheap as hell. my favorite synthesizer for many reasons.

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