Hi, has anyone heard of any news for the Minitaur Rack Mount? It would be great if it could be mounted next to a CP-251 or something.
It’s the same size and will fit next to a 251
I don’t think the cp/vx rack kit is deep enough. At least that is what was being said right before the Minitaur release.
I remember seeing someone had posted a pic of their Minitaur racked but I don’t recall if that was here, at VSE or gearslutz. They had a rack that laid back a bit and it was racked next to a 251
Well, I’ll be go to hell! I’m glad my info was wrong. I think what I just quoted was in the General Discussion forum. Thanks for the info.
This is prolly the pic
I was thinking of how this could get mounted and my only guess is a mount that could hold both a 251 and a minituar with both different depths. Or…maybe they have a plan to make another product that is the same footprint as a minitaur…like an analog sequencer? That would be creamy!
Ah, that looks pretty close! I have a VX-351/VX-352 mounted together and that mount definitely won’t fit a Minitaur. Maybe they could make a similar mount that is deeper so that it could fit the Minitaur, and have some “adapters” to fill in the extra depth for one side in case we want to put in a CP-251 or something else there.
Have a look at this thread and read my comments. I may or may not have mentioned it but I had to remove the right ‘wood cheek’ from the VX-351 to get it to fit in there width wise. Depth, the pictures speak for themselves. I’ll shortly be taking my VX/CP rack mount kit to meet my table saw. Will post pictures and DIY information if I ever get to it!
http://www.moogmusic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13017&p=94378#p94378
Yep sure was. Not perfectly flat, but who cares. It IS rackable 
EM I think I do remember you saying something about removing some of the wood to do that, but at least it works.
We do have plans for a rack kit specific to Minitaur. This should be released shortly.
Hope this helps,
-Your friends at Moog
Terrific! Can’t wait, my Minitaur and CP-251 are just kind of floating around the studio at the moment 
I own a Taurus I and 3, but I would still LOVE to see a slimmed-down 1U or even 1/2U version of the Minitaur for live use.
Tabletop stuff just seems amateurish to me. Wall warts? Ugh 
I sold my Slim Phatty for the same reason; takes up too much rackspace. Im still trying to get the most out of a small (4-6U) rack for gigs. Wouldn’t it be nice to get some real analog goodness in a 1U rackspace? Surely im not the only one who feels this way!
Cool. Will it house 1 Minitaur & something else, 2 Minitaurs or just 1? I like the idea of rack mounting a Minitaur alongside one of those other Moog gizmo things!!
I’m getting anxious for the rack mount 
Any further news about the rackmount kit for the Minitaur..? 
You can preorder now at Full Compass:
I’m curious - rather I suspect you’re going to have to have 1U space above the rackmount kit in order to plug in the necessary cabling, would anyone at Moog be able to confirm this..?
I’m a bit disappointed by this but I suppose I understand the difficulty in offering all of the variations that folks would require; Moog didn’t have much of a choice in the matter; there’s not much of a value-add in rack kits so it’s farming out the work to a fabrication shop.
I would have much rather preferred a system to mount Minitaur alongside a VX-351 or CP-251 but I know from experience that the profile of Minitaur is just outside of the width that would comfortably fit without a well machined end cheek that could a) bolt up to Minitaur, b) mate to the inside of a VX/CP, and c) be thin enough to fit the profile. {when I get some time, I’ll take a pic of my DIY solution to this matter; I think many of you will get a laugh out of it}.
My other suggestion would have been for Moog to have leveraged some of the real estate on the right blank panel to allow for a series of Jacks, patchbay style, for CV Vol, Filter, Freq, Gate, audio Input, and headphone (customer supply their own 1’ cables). Tightly packing a Minitaur between other modules is going to make it difficult to get into/out of and heck, they have the space here. My solution to this was to leverage a STG ‘Imagine’ panel which is alongside some MOTM modules.
But the summary of the idea would have been to leverage 6 jacks, side by side, patch bay style, provided an 1/8" wire for the headphone cable and included an adhesive backed lexan decal that the owner could affix if wanting to use the jacks for this purpose, or maybe even a blank that could be written on if wanting to use it for some other purpose.
Of course that would increase the $55 cost to something that is way too high for all but the most discerning rack space connoisseur : )
It’s a matter of units sold (and potential market) and cost to produce, package, support and ship, but at least there is a rack option now.
How soon until the Minitaur rack is actually shipping, from either retailers or moog direct? Need one ASAP.
I received my Minitaur Rack Mount last week. I purchased it from Moog and it works as advertised.
Be aware that there’s not much clearance for the cables above the unit. I have my Minitaur between other rack devices and I chose the flat mount. I needed to use right-angled cables so the cables would fit nicely. Even with the Minitaur Rack angled mount option, I needed right-angled cables. In a nutshell, its a tight fit for NORMAL cables unless you put the Minitaur in the top rack space.