Minimoog=Voyagerx(LittlePhatty+cosProdigy-tanMinimoog)/Memorymoogx3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679 
FWIW, when I first played/got my hands on my Mini D, it sounded horrible ! 
Of course it was because it was in desperate need of TLC, and had been neglected for many years in a damp basement. Scratchy pots, glitchy switches, misfiring keyboard, out of tune, offset pitch bend, well you get the picture.
Thatās why I got it for cheap ($1900). If you can call close to two grand, cheap.
After many hours spent bringing it back to life, and straightening its tuning, I could finally appreciate it to the full extent.
And, of course I was blown away. I think itās a winning combination of a lot of little things, the slight distortion, the extremely high harmonic content of its waveforms, its filter that goes ultrasonic and passes those high harmonics when fully open, its organic tuning that isnāt absolutely precise, its ultra sensitive pitch bend wheel that you can use like bending a guitar string, its buttery smooth key action (new bushings), and most of all its powerful, in your face vintage Moog sound !
Iām not going to compare it to anything else, not even another Mini D, because it wouldnāt be fair. I think its the Stradivarius of analog mono synths. A work of art. Bill Hemsath, Jim Scott, and of course the master himself Robert Moog could be proud of their work.
Itās the only synth that can bring me chills when Iām playing a synth lead with the āfeedback loop trickā near oscillation ! 
Thereās nothing that sounds quite like it. I sold my first minimoog and missed it so much that I had to buy another. I have played a lot of them from Herb Deutschās to Tom Rheaās. My friend just restored Tom Rheaās, this winter. Eric, I thought you would like to know that Tom Rhea really loves the micro moog and was instrumental in deciding that it would be produced with a ribbon controller for pitch. In fact, he had this done to his minimoog. He is quite an interesting person and has a great insight in regards to the old moog days.
Yes indeed.
And to hear some of it from the man himself, you can watch this little video:
http://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/tom-rhea
I spent a whole day with him this January, He took us all out for lunch in Plainview Long Island to say thanks for getting his mini restored. We sat down in the restaurant at about 1200 and we didnāt leave until about 630. This guy is one of the most interesting people I have ever met! Funny and a great story teller. Thanks for the video, It just reminded me of that day.
Youāre welcome.
All those guys from the early days of analog music synthesizers are interesting, because they were at the forefront of those pioneering days. I wish I had the chance to meet all those guys. I can listen to any of them for hours, recollecting how things came about and evolved. From Herb Deutsch, Tom Rhea, Bill Hemsath, and so onā¦
But beloved Bob Moog is my favorite to listen to and often had some funny anecdotes, as demonstrated here in this video from the same site:
I wish I could explain to people as clearly as he does that monophony in the context of analog synths is far from limiting, itās actually liberating.
I happened to see where Tom Rhea supported the āI Dream of Wiresā (modular synth documentary) indiegogo campaign.
You should too.
Tomās micromoog manual is very full of information beyond the micromoog. If you have not downloaded any of his manuals, do so.
Eric
Another person who isnāt mentioned that much is Al Tepper, Who was the head of Hofstra music dept in the 60ās. I was great friends with him until his death a few years back. He is the one who gave Bob and Herb the grant money of 200.00 dollars to start Moog music back in the 60ās. Great guy who introduced me to Herb around 2002. I believe he is mentioned in the Moog archives. These were Real people who were the pioneers of this great field.
While Tepper may have contributed money to R.A. Moog, R.A. Moog existed years before Bob interacted with Herb. There were theremins to build, after all. 
That $200 was, according to Herb himself, for research and development of the Moog synthesizer which was just a collection of a few prototype modules that Bob and Herb were working on at the time.
You can watch him tell the story in this video, starting from 4:25ā¦
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4QLh_VfvgU
strange nobody also considered the qualities of the vca of the model-d.
i agree on the Stradivarius comparison
URL please? Not finding them in google.
http://www.fantasyjackpalance.com/fjp/sound/synth/synthdata/07-moog-micromoog.html
Everything should be there.
Huh - Iāve been there before but completely overlooked the Tom Rhea manual. I have the original user and service manual but never new of the one that Tom Rhea wrote. Thanks.
Thanks to Tom Rheaās user manual, Iāve learned that the Micromoog and Multimoog were mostly the work of Jim Scott. After I had looked at the service manuals and schematics, I thought the circuitry looked somewhat different from Bob Moogās usual designsā¦
My Micro is a hand-me-down from my father. It was given to him from an ex brother-in-law who grew tired of it (80ās analog dumper). The only manual that I have ever seen for it was the Tom Rhea manual. If this isnāt the original manual, thats news to me. I thought he wrote the original Minimoog manual also.
Eric
Yeah, me too Iād be curious to know who wrote the one MC has ?
By the way, I donāt understand why MC could not find them, since I simply typed āmicromoog user manualā in Google and the first result I got was the pdf file from Fantasyjackpalanceā¦ 
While talking to Tom Rhea, he said that he used to have conversations with David Friend of ARP music in reference to how stable the ARP oscillators were. He told us that the oscillator in the micromoog was the most stable oscillator moog made to date and the reason behind this was that Jim Scott designed a circuit that would bring the oscillator to a stable temperature.
Mine needs a little TLC. If I THINK about moisture it drifts a tad. If I switch the switches it drifts. Itās in humid central Arkansas.
I tried sequencing it and it was probably a combination of needing to be tuned/calibrated with long wires from the sequencer. It was bad out of tune.
WHen I get my modular going, I will probably use it for filtering and modulation like Klaus Schulze.