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Average rating:
4.3 out of 5
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I picked up my first Minimoog earlier this year for cheap ($750), and it's been a joy to own. It's an older model manufactured some time in 1974, but it does have the new osc boards so the tuning is rock solid. Interestingly, this particular Moog overdrives the VCAs harder than anything else I've heard...so the sound is just monsterous. I might pick up a set of the old boards just to compare them with the ones in mine, but then again why mess with a good thing! :)
Only bummer-- the previous owner left it in his car one day and the heat warped the face plate at the edges (only slighly). The dark brown cabinet is in great shape and all the knobs are perfect. With the skyrocketing price of analogs these days, I felt I did alright.
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I just "aquired" a minimoog! S#8888. Switched it on, fiddled a few knobs and just got blown away. I use a lot of up todate equipment and have even been using Roland's "vintage card" for some Moog solos. None of it compares to the real thing. And guess what! you have to actually PLAY it. No sequencers, no bull&*$.
I am not even a good keyboard player but immediatly got sounds out of this Minimoog that I had been trying to get for ages out of other "modern" synths.
just my two pennies worth, what a cool little number.
Larry killip
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To me, the minimoog is a damn fine synth and certainly my favourite, both in terms of sound and looks. After searching for a couple of years, I bought a brand new model E mini last year for �1499 from Moog Music Ltd. here in the UK and I am still learning new tricks on it six months on. New features on the model E include Pulse Wave Modulation for oscillators 1 and 2 when oscillator 3 is in LFO mode, a transpose switch can raise or lower the keyboard an octave plus it's all MIDI'd up as standard. The oscillators are guaranteed never to go out of tune due to a new design. You might think all this alters the sound, but a reviewer who compared it with an original and could tell very little differences apart from the look (Moog added the new controls above the tune/glide/mod knobs) and if anything, the sound was fatter. Many people acknowledge that it has excellent bass and lead capabilities but there's much more to it than that (FM mode for a start). So what if it's a monophonic, you can tune the three oscillators to play chords!! The drawbacks? I nearly put my back out collecting it from the music shop...it's a heavy beast!!
If anyone wants to get in touch with Moog, go to their site www.moog-music.com or e-mail them at enq@moog-music.com
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The minimoog does bass and leads. You can probably get about 30 or so different sounds out of it that are "distinct" from each other. These sounds will be some of the best that you will ever hear. Music is about love for the supernatural and the unknown. Analog synthesizers are the sound of pure electricity. You can hear something beyond your comprehension in the tones that the Minimoog will deliver, I feel that the lead tones are beautiful.
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Not much to add but my two cents. I've owned around 30 different make and model of synth, whether they be FM, analog, PCM based or what have you. I've owned two mini's as well, one pre-temp. stabalized osc board and my current (S#111188) stable one. Very colourful tone characteristics, excellent harmonics. The filter allows for a seeming full sound to permeate even while cutting off many of the higher frequencies. The filter can be overdriven slightly by maxing the osc vol. and the 'LO' output re-routed back into the filter input for additional fuzz. The Mini's presence in the mid/bass end is punchy and solid. Nothing I've used has produced the combination of presence and character in the low end that I've achieved on a MiniMoog, not my ARP 2600, not a nice stable sine from the DX7, or emulations courtesy of K-2000S. It is head and shoulders above it's successor the Source for both modulation and sound and is second only for beefiness to larger modular systems.
My mini has also some RMS mods and the Lintronic advancement. With the stabalized osc board and MIDI advancements, it is the goto synth among the 15 or so I have on hand.
Short of carting a Moog modular to a session, the Mini is a pinnacle of power for space for those with a discerning taste in synthesisers, and lucky for it's original popularity, there were 13000 made, leaving a legacy we'll be able to enjoy for years to come.
(a brief comment on the previous post: Saying the Mini is lacklustre for not being multi-timbral, etc. Is like says Micheal Jordan actually sucks because he cannot also account or paint fences. He is the best at Basketball, whether or not he can even tie his shoes. The Mini is the premier analog mono in it's class, whether or not it can play a perfect piano sound over 16 channels and make you coffee at the same time. Your alternate opinion is respected, but perhaps the scope of your comparisons was skewed.)
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