Minitaur range question

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I am considering making a bass drone machine using the Mother 32 (and its keyboard) along with a minitaur.

I know minitaur is only for bass but I have a technical question that I dont have the best language for, being a new musician. I am just trying to figure out how high into treble the minitaur goes. So if we compared it to a piano would the minitaur be able to go up three octaves from the lowest key, or is it just a two octave range?

Thanks for any help.

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From the Minitaur manual :wink:
“Since the Minitaur is a Bass Synthesizer; it operates exclusively in the lower
note range (MIDI notes 0 - 72). This means that the Minitaur will respond
to your playing from ‘C4’ (an octave above middle ‘C’) downward.”

It is a pretty wide range for a bass synth, but doesn’t go above C4 due to its internal V/Hz architecture which requires a much wider voltage range than V/Oct.

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I understand this means three octaves from the lowest C on a piano?

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Yes, that is what that means.

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Thanks for the reply guys. for my purposes three octaves up is enough so I can consider buying this synth.

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Well, this is embarrassing! As soon as I typed in my replies yesterday, I started to have doubts about them.
So I just plugged in my Minitaur and tested it out with my 5-octave controller.
It actually plays FOUR octaves from the lowest C on my keyboard.
Sorry for the confusion, but at least the Minitaur is better than I said! :blush:

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I just got mine and thought it would probably only be good for bass notes but in fact it plays leads quite nicely in the middle range as well up to the note as described by previous posters. There’s some interesting patches for leads as well as bass you can access via the editor. If I transpose my keyboard too high (2 octaves only) it will just keep repeating the notes from the first octave into the second octave.

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minitaur is great for midrange leads. but the beast will never soar if you know what i mean. earthbound

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I have two minitaurs, and lately have been using one of them for deep bass lines and the other for more baritone/tenor lines. They sound great that way.