Moving on, there’s the mixer with volumes and mute switches for each of the oscillators, the external input, and noise (which can be used as a modulation source too, just like the original). Also, Oscillator 1, has a Sync switch for hard sync leads, nice Arturia! Of course, there’s the oscillator modulation rocker switch. Originally, oscillator 3 could be used as a modulation source for pitch and filter and could be disabled from keyboard voltages to act as an LFO, but, in this version, oscillator 2 can also ignore keyboard control, which is nice for some drones and experiments. This is a fairly simple architecture, three full range VCOs, with triangle, tri/saw mix, sawtooth, square, 75% pulse, and 25% pulse waveforms.

I’m not gonna get very much in deep on the architecture of the Minimoog, instead, I will just describe the modules and tell you about Arturia’s added functionality. More than 40 years later, the Minimoog is one of the coolest, most recognizable, and most sought-after Mono synths of all time! Overview. Think of Chick Corea, Rick Wakeman, Berny Warren, etc. It went very popular among Jazz, Rock, and Soul Keyboard players, especially for solos. Moog modular, although they used keyboards as controllers, were not instruments made for keyboard players (well, of course, Keith Emerson is the exception of this rule).īut then, sometime around the late 60s early 70s, an employer of Moog, started a project with spare modules and pieces and came out with the first portable synth that was meant to be used by keyboard players: the Minimoog.

There was a time when synthesizers were impenetrable huge and heavy machines, full of patch cords and available only at studios, and those big machines were mostly made by a man named Robert A. Let’s check it out! A little bit of history, kids… Arturia has made a great effort in emulating all that character and still adds some great functionality which makes the Mini V2 much more flexible than the original hardware.

Yeah, I know it’s pretty obvious, but, after years of playing and programming synths, the Minimoog Model D, still has something that makes it one of my favorites of all time.

Going on with this amazing V Collection 4 by Arturia, I’m gonna review one of my favorite synths since I was a kid.

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