New Analogue Moog Bass Synth

seems broadly similar to the dark energy except more expensive with less features.

  On 1/7/2012 at 7:42 PM, BCM said:

seems broadly similar to the dark energy except more expensive with less features.

Two VCOs, though.

it's nice to see moog giving us more sub-1K products. this seems like a nice way to do some "moog bass"... but it's not for me as I already have my slim phatty and love it to death.

If this Minitaur had ADSR envelopes and PWM I'd be all over it. What I'd like to see is a Slim Phatty Old School with better knobs and more of 'em. I know it will never happen, so that's why I'm building up the ol' modular.

  On 1/7/2012 at 7:50 PM, psn said:

  On 1/7/2012 at 7:42 PM, BCM said:

seems broadly similar to the dark energy except more expensive with less features.

 

Two VCOs, though.

i guess, but they got around this on the dark energy with the extensive modulation options - allowing you to beef up the single VCO...the lack of dual VCOs is not a major problem on the DE imo

  On 1/7/2012 at 4:46 PM, sneaksta303 said:

You guys are taking the piss right? A one trick pony? No, I'm pretty sure you all are the ones without an imagination. Hefty on the pricetag? Haha gtfo.

  On 1/7/2012 at 3:22 PM, slightlydrybeans said:

I don't know why that guy in the video was wetting himself so much about how powerful it is. It's not really all that flexible unless there is some madness hidden in sysex or something. 1 lfo, with (i'm assuming) 1 waveshape, a filter and amp envelope and osc mixer. I'm sure it sounds great but there is nothing new here. A bit unimaginative IMO.

  On 1/7/2012 at 3:15 PM, kokeboka said:

  On 1/7/2012 at 5:04 AM, Audioblysk said:

This synth may be cool, but I have a feeling it will end up like the TB-303 (aside from the awesome sequencer) and just be a one trick poney.

 

Doing a pretty neat one trick, no doubt. But for $600... I dunno. Moog stuff is always good but hefty on the price tag.

yeah, funny to hear that in this forum. AFX is a one trick pony too?

Never said it was expensive and I said it sounds nice, but this synth is not breaking any new ground, I'd rather just double the price and grab a proper moog w/keys. Sorry.

Yeah I reckon I can't argue with you there. BCM has a point as well.

I'm pretty stoked about this. A sub £500 synth from Moog? It's a simple little synth but that's not a bad thing. I don't mind a bit of limitation. Good for helping you push the thing. But the big thing that has got me excited about this one is that every parameter can be controlled via MIDI. That's going to make it an interesting little beast in a computer set-up. I recently bought the Lemur App for my iPad. Imagine some of the things you could do controlling the Minitaur from that via MIDI? Fantastic. I don't know of another analogue monosynth that has this kind of MIDI support. I can't wait for this. As long as the sound lives up to expectations I'm in

i like this fashion of less expensive synths in the analog market. keep it up i say

  On 1/9/2012 at 3:23 AM, yek said:

i like this fashion of less expensive synths in the analog market. keep it up i say

Absolutely. There are loads of smaller companies making affordable analogue synths. Nice to see some of the bigger players getting onboard.

This one looks tasty. Less expensive... well, for me, it's far to expensive for a thing with which I mostly can only do a nice Bass-sound. Still I would love to have it.

Anyway a question for older members here: Maybe there is already a thread where you talk about different synthesizer types like the Dark Energy or the MICROZWERG stuff, so I don't need to open one?

  On 1/7/2012 at 7:50 PM, psn said:

  On 1/7/2012 at 7:42 PM, BCM said:

seems broadly similar to the dark energy except more expensive with less features.

 

Two VCOs, though.

and it's a moog. :)

  On 1/8/2012 at 7:36 AM, Audioblysk said:

Never said it was expensive and I said it sounds nice, but this synth is not breaking any new ground, I'd rather just double the price and grab a proper moog w/keys. Sorry.

i've owned a few moog's (with keys) before. - Prodigy, Opus 3, micromoog. and the knobs fall off, the keys fall apart and the sound is always temperamental.

while it is true what you say, it will just be good/nice/fun to have a brand new moog synth (for less than a grand, as people have said already).

i'm looking forward to playing around with 1. i'm sure it'll be a lot of fun and will sound very nice and fphat!

bring on the minitaur.

The Moog website says it's due to be launched by Spring - does anyone have any idea about a more specific launch date? I'm curious to try it out and get feedback from people owning one of these.

  On 1/11/2012 at 11:30 AM, tokn said:

Anyway a question for older members here: Maybe there is already a thread where you talk about different synthesizer types like the Dark Energy or the MICROZWERG stuff, so I don't need to open one?

yeah there's definitely been threads about the dark energy and MFB stuff...can't find them though now lol. fuck it, start a new one.