Getting Started - Cherry Surreal MG-1 Plus User Manual

Cherry Audio: Surreal MG-1 Plus User Manual

1 Getting Started

The Surrealistic MG-1 Plus is a loving recreation of an oddball collaboration between Moog
Music and '70s/'80s consumer electronics giant, Radio Shack. The story goes that Radio
Shack's marketing believed they could sell a synthesizer to budding musicians and hifi
enthusiasts, leading to an OEM deal with Moog and resulting in the Realistic Concertmate
MG-1. These sold for $500, and depending on your perspective, this was either crazy cheap
for a geniune Moog synth with a real ladder filter, or really expensive for a Radio Shack item.
Radio Shack association not withstanding, the MG-1 was a great sounding little synth with a
few dumb limitations, all of which have been addressed with Cherry Audio's Surrealistic MG-
1 Plus. These limitations included a limited range two-and-a-half octave keyboard (MG-1
Plus responds to any keyboard range), limited octave switching (MG-1 Plus adds a three-
position transpose switch), and very limited square-wave only polyphony section (MG-1 Plus
adds a sawtooth, mod abilities, and a range switch). We'll get into the specifics in each
section of this manual, but suffice to say, MG-1 Plus builds upon the original easy-to-use,
great sounding MG-1, and adds to the fun with convenient, modern features.
1.1.1 Manual Layout
This manual will detail each section of MG-1; the order of the chapters follows the signal
flow (as opposed to the physical layout of the front panel sections).
1.1.2 Technical Assistance
Cherry Audio's unique online store and automatic updating should make operation a
smooth experience, but if you run into any issues or have questions, you can discuss issues
online at the Cherry Audio forums at:
https://forums.cherryaudio.com/
... or you can communicate directly with one of our surly and grumpy, scratch that...
outgoing and friendly tech support staff at:
https://cherryaudio.kayako.com/
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