Minitaur CC#s

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Hi Gang,
I was lucky enough to get to play with a prototype Minitaur last year
and can say with certainty that there were about 21 unique CC#s that
covered pretty much everything on the front panel as well as some
cool internal parameters. So you won’t have to mess with SysEx to
send a preset via MIDI.

More importantly, it was stupid easy to program in real time as the
layout of the knobs and buttons was completely intuitive.

And MOST importantly, it was crazy fat. While making the video, I
couldn’t get over the fact that THIS SOUND was coming from
something I could hold in the palm of my hand.

A preliminary video will be available soon at:
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Minitaur
(Be gentle, I only had a short time with it right before the video rolled:-)

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is there some kind of capacity for oscillator sync buried in the midi implementation?

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Hi Andrew,

I didn’t see either way, but the prototype was definitely not
finalized, so… your guess is as good as mine.

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do you think it’s the same size as a cp 251!!! I guess the prototype might not’ve been in its final case…

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Thanks Dan. Looking fwd to your video.

Great news on the cc’s, however my point on hoping for SysEx support will allow for a quick (instant) push of a ‘preset’ via many free software packages (SysEx librarian). Ala Phatty patches which are 373 bytes in length and can be blasted into my Phatty with a simple double click.

Both bits of functionality are important.

One other quick question: I notice that the stated dimensions are precisely 3ru high but not quite wide enough to be mated with a CP / VX sized module. Any rack mount options that you may be aware of?

I’m really hoping that Moog had the foresight to have the jacks and specifically the midi port mounted ‘deep’ enough so that this can possibly be mounted beneath a Fooger or CP / VX rack mount.

I have gear (like Fooger rack mount itself and like the Korg Radias) that did not take this into account!

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Although the features weren’t locked down, I’m
pretty certain that the enclosure was real.

Obviously, it was taller than the CP-251, but it
was somewhere near the width and depth of one.

I should have thought to hold it directly over the
CP-251, but I was too worried about the camera
that was about to roll.

Maybe someone who’s clever with images can use
the standard Moog knobs as a reference to guess
the Minitaur’s dimensions.

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Is it possible for any of these librarians to send a tight burst of CC#s
that have been saved as a tiny Standard MIDI File?

That’s how I send those kind of “presets” at the top of a sequence,
(albeit via a sequencer as opposed to a SysEx librarian).

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From a Moog press release I found online:

At only 8.5" x 5.25" and less than 3 lbs, the Minitaur
puts powerful analog Moog bass into a package
designed to fit seamlessly into today’s performance
and production environments.

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ok, so it’s 3u high, right(?), and 8.5x2 + rack ears = 2 racked side by side. oh hell yeah!