My favorite Moogerfooger is a Minitaur

[midilifestyle]

With all the Youtube videos demonstrating how different MFs sound as fourth oscillators, I have to wonder: why don't people buy Minitaurs if that's what they want? I use mine as a sub oscillator, essentially, and it's my favorite "moogerfooger" in my collection.

Caveats: you need the Vx-351 to send it pitch and gate, and you are limited to its truncated scale.

Is anyone else getting similar mileage out of theirs?

[_DemonDan_]

Der Werkstatt can also fill some of these requirements.

And it has a full-range oscillator.

[David Smyth]

Is anyone else getting similar mileage out of theirs?

No, but I will now!

Cheers for the idea.. I'm definitely going to run it as a sub osc with my Voyager XL.

David
NZ

[midilifestyle]

Good call on the Werkstatt. I might have to splurge on one of those. Plus...cv!

Glad you're psyched to try the subosc idea, David. The Minitaur is a flexible little beast, and I use if for more than just a sub osc. It's also a voltage controlled ladder filter and a VCA. To use it as a standalone filter you have to trigger the gate somehow. I found that feeding the gate with a patch cable plugged halfway into a powered socket (from the cp-251, etc) will keep the gate open.

I'm eventually gonna figure out a patch that will partly involve a quantized sample and hold modulating the minitaur's pitch while I'm using it as a fourth oscillator. All of this is a fun game of trying to get the voyager to do stuff that the guys in the Eurorack modular scene are doing. Limitations are good for ingenuity

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Limitations are good for ingenuity

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