The only Moog synth that can come close to the Taurus pedal sound (I know, I have six other Moogs including the Minimoog), and it can cop the Minimoog lead sound very nicely. Don't expect much in special FX, it is very limited in the modulation department; triangle or square to VCF and/or VCO and the LFO only goes to 100hz. But that great Moog sound is there, it only has two VCOs but they sound BIG. The filter sounds REALLY good, only problem is there's no external input.

I use a set of Taurus II controller pedals to trigger the Source when I'm playing bass guitar; Moog Music had a modification for the pedals that make it a remote keyboard for the Source. This works a lot better than using the CV/trigger inputs. Why? Because the CV input isn't processed by the glide circuit, it's single trigger only, and the VCF keyboard tracking is fixed at full only. With the "remote keyboard mod" in the pedals, these problems go away. Mike Rutherford of Genesis uses the same setup for his bass pedal, it's all over the live album "The Way We Walk", especially the CD with "The Longs". I didn't know this until I bought the concert video a year ago.

I got an Encore MIDI interface for mine. Even if you don't use MIDI, there is a good reason to have one; it expands the patch memory from 16 to 256. I've had the Encore kit for ten years and I have YET to fill up all 256 patches.

This is the perfect live gigging analog synth; it stays in tune, sounds great, compact, and it's programmable.