In the video listed below, Thomas Grillo says that he warms up his Moog Etherwave 10-15 minutes because when it's first turned on, the pitch field is very compacted so a hand motion that would be normally one octave is almost two octaves.
I have not been paying attention to this on mine.
Does anyone else notice this?
As a secondary note, I don't know how he does that -- leaves the instrument on -- without it randomly playing sounds as people walk by.