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.
Minitaur range question
Re: Minitaur range question
From the Minitaur manual
"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.
"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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Re: Minitaur range question
I understand this means three octaves from the lowest C on a piano?
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Re: Minitaur range question
Yes, that is what that means.bichuelo wrote:I understand this means three octaves from the lowest C on a piano?
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Re: Minitaur range question
Thanks for the reply guys. for my purposes three octaves up is enough so I can consider buying this synth.
Re: Minitaur range question
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!
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!
Moog stuff: Slim Phatty, Minitaur, Mother-32, Werkstatt x2, MF-103, MF-104M, MF-108M
Running Moog software on Win7 64-bit
Dreams of a Voyager XL some day...
Running Moog software on Win7 64-bit
Dreams of a Voyager XL some day...
Re: Minitaur range question
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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Re: Minitaur range question
minitaur is great for midrange leads. but the beast will never soar if you know what i mean. earthbound
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Re: Minitaur range question
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.
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