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I hear ya! I'm on the fence on getting an OS or a Select Series. But, this thing, yeah! As soon as I find my wallet (of course, just as I was putting my order in at sweetwater, I found that I had lost it) I'm ordering it. And the great thing about it is it's small enough that the wife won't notice that I bought a new piece of gear. Double plus good!!!
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Can't wait to tandem this beauty with my Tempest.....whoa!
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Since they knocked a few hundred bucks off of the T3, I've been mulling over picking one up. Previously I've longed for a newly produced 2 oscillator synth with no patch memory, the AS Leipzig as well as the OB SEM were serious contenders, but then Moog did it again, read my mind and released this! I'm beyond thrilled. I cannot wait to connect this to the CV outs on my LP!
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Two examples:EMwhite wrote:From a purely technical perspective, a standard MIDI controller
is not going to give you 'preset' functionality...
Any of the POTs may have a CC#, starting value, ending value
and display/type of either 0..127, -64/+63 [ala Oberheim],
Relative 1/2, 0-16K, or an APOT type. But there is nothing to
say "send these 22 CC values when I press this button".
Kurzweil K2xx-series & PC3-series keyboards will send specific
CC#s with specific CC Values upon ENTERing a Setup.
So the act of calling up a Kurzweil Setup (manually or via a
Program Change) will blast far more than the 20+ CC#s you'd
need to set every possible parameter of the Minitaur.
Please understand that I fully agree with you on the convenience
of SysEx. But I honestly don't know if this is spec'd out for the
Minitaur or not. I'm pretty sure we'll all know by NAMM
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Found my wallet. Just put my order in!!! Now the wait......... Some more demo vids would be great to help tide all of us over that have already purchased one!
I did have 1 thought though. I noticed in the spec that it doesn't label the VCO's as "ultra-stable". Curious if it will have the looonng warm up that plagues the SP. Whatever. Its still an awsome synth.
I did have 1 thought though. I noticed in the spec that it doesn't label the VCO's as "ultra-stable". Curious if it will have the looonng warm up that plagues the SP. Whatever. Its still an awsome synth.
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I just contacted Troy at Novamusik.
The Pre Order price on the MiniTaur is $569.
The Cluster Flux has risen to $559 from it's pre-order special of $519
I suppose they will rise when the MiniTaur hits the market for awhile.
Eric
The Pre Order price on the MiniTaur is $569.
The Cluster Flux has risen to $559 from it's pre-order special of $519
I suppose they will rise when the MiniTaur hits the market for awhile.
Eric
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Interesting. It says $599 on their website.EricK wrote:I just contacted Troy at Novamusik.
The Pre Order price on the MiniTaur is $569.
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I read somewhere the Hz/Octave oscillators allows an instan warm up compared to V/Octave ones.muksys wrote:I noticed in the spec that it doesn't label the VCO's as "ultra-stable". Curious if it will have the looonng warm up that plagues the SP.
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Ah, ok. Was not aware that it wasn't V/Oct. I just spoke with AJ at Sweetwater and he is going to ask Daniel if he knows.stiiiiiiive wrote:I read somewhere the Hz/Octave oscillators allows an instan warm up compared to V/Octave ones.
Also, if anyone is interested, AJ said that Moog is looking at Feb 27th as the release date, but it could be sooner or as late as March.
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Lot's of companies that do business like this can't advertise their prices.muksys wrote:Interesting. It says $599 on their website.EricK wrote:I just contacted Troy at Novamusik.
The Pre Order price on the MiniTaur is $569.
I got a Voyager select and VX351 for $2999 and my father got the Fantom G8 for the same price.
They undercut anyone I have run across and if Nova has it, I go their before anyone else.
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Digital Village in the UK have £499 (inc. VAT) which is not a bad price - but I do need to get new speakers first dammit!
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Gonna be passing on the Minitaur. Already have an EB and a T3.
Got sights set on an MF-103 and a Steel Guitar Black Box, not necessarily in that order.
Looks like a really cool synth though. I bet it is impressive to hear that much bass from something that fits in the palm of your hand and weighs 3 pounds.
Got sights set on an MF-103 and a Steel Guitar Black Box, not necessarily in that order.
Looks like a really cool synth though. I bet it is impressive to hear that much bass from something that fits in the palm of your hand and weighs 3 pounds.
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If the Minitaur is indeed a Hz/Oct device, then it won't be compatible with any other Moogs, CV wise... Everything else is 1 Volt per Octave (except the Voyager Old School which has a non-standard strange voltage per octave).stiiiiiiive wrote:I read somewhere the Hz/Octave oscillators allows an instan warm up compared to V/Octave ones.
Anyway, warm-up times has little to do with the type of control voltage. It's much more a question of oscillator design and the use of Tempco resistors and precise temperature compensation circuits.
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Just put my preorder in at nova...now the wait...
Any word on wood sides for this thing?
Any word on wood sides for this thing?
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It will still be compatible with other Moog gear (1V/Oct.) despite the oscillator design. Note that on the Minitaur Specs page it says '0 to +5V signal INTERNALLY PROCESSED for 1V/Octave' aka converted. Moog would be crazy to release an incompatible product considering the legacy and product depth.
As for the Old School, this was a bit of a mishap and rectified by replacing a resistor with an inline resistor and mini pot. For the record, some Little Phattys have a non-calibrated Pitch CV in despite being 'compatible'.
As for the Old School, this was a bit of a mishap and rectified by replacing a resistor with an inline resistor and mini pot. For the record, some Little Phattys have a non-calibrated Pitch CV in despite being 'compatible'.
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