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I bought the Moog Voyager Signature model, and am ecstatic and totally satisfied. I have owned two Mini-Moogs in the far-distant past, and even been a Moog retail salesman, thanks to Bob Turner, who "turned" me on to them in the first place (and I even customized one of the Moogs, to add a floor mod pedal, made by my own hand out of a Farfisa pedal, which was a very effective mod, I must say). Bob Moog and his team should be immensely proud. They have updated the Mini in a practically perfect fashion, bringing to it almost everything I would have thought to bring to it in my wildest dreams. After all, they didn't update the Memory Moog; they updated the Mini. So, what we have is a perfectly updated Mini-Moog. It's beautiful, elegant, and magnificently done - I'd have sold a lot of my current equipment just to have helped to bootstrap Moog Music into accomplishing it. Some things just have to come into being - just have to be. This is one of them. They should be celebrated, congratulated, and supported as much as should be the Tech Museum in San Jose, or the Metropolitan Opera, or the like - however, the fact that they've made it as a thriving *business* is more to their credit! They're *not* a museum, not an oddity (no pun intended), and not archaic, out of touch, or anything of the kind. Read the current issue of Keyboard in depth if you want to get a sense of just how in tune they are. And listen to the instrument if you want to hear how beautiful a synth can really sound. Yes, MIDI it to another instrument to enhance it (and to enhance the *other* instrument) - just as one processes any instrument through effects to enhance it. These are the essential ways in which we make music, and make music better (listen to how Jan Hammer made the Mini scream by flanging and echoing it - still my favorite way to listen to a Moog). These are all tools, and ways and means. Great tools, and ways and means. Long live the Mini-Moog, and long live the Voyager, as a worthy *addition* to the heritage!
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