Did Moog Muisc make a split minimoog?

analogcontrolfreak · Post by **analogcontrolfreak** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:55 am

I was scanning through the synth catagory on ebay and found an auction for a split Minimoog. Basicly it was a minimoog without a keyboard. I had never seen one of these before. Had Moog Music made a Minimoog like this?

goldphinga · Post by **goldphinga** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:23 am

check http://moogarchives.com/ under the oddities section and you will find the split minimoog. i think it was a special order item from moog. so yes,it is authentic.but there should be a keyboard to go with the main mini panel.

analogcontrolfreak · Post by **analogcontrolfreak** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:11 am

Thanks!

vorlon42 · Post by **vorlon42** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:09 am

I think it was Gary Wright who used a split Minimoog so that he could walk around with the keyboard only. Many of his solos sounds like horn parts. (Example: "Are You Weepin'".) It kind of predates the Liberation and other portable synths that were to come a few years later.

analogcontrolfreak · Post by **analogcontrolfreak** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:41 am

Moog is at it again. With the Rack mount version of the Voyager.

vorlon42 · Post by **vorlon42** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 8:51 pm

analogcontrolfreak wrote:Moog is at it again. With the Rack mount version of the Voyager.

Well it's about bleepin' time!

If not Moog, then companies like JLCooper would have been more than happy to make rackmount versions or conversions, like they've done with Minis or Prophets in the past. The down side was that you'd have to bring your own synth which would be cannibalized for the rackmount version.

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MC · Post by MC » Sat Feb 19, 2005 10:10 pm

Wouldn't that be Studio Electronics, not JLCooper?

vorlon42 · Post by **vorlon42** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:35 pm

MC wrote:Wouldn't that be Studio Electronics, not JLCooper?

Aye, it is. I found their web site and sure enough, their history page cites the Midimoog and P-Five rackmount synths.

Getting back to unusual Moogs.....Patrick Moraz had a double Minimoog -- two sets of Minimoog electronics in one box, and the two keyboards stacked like the swell and great keyboards of an organ.

ebg31 · Post by **ebg31** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 10:11 pm

JLCooper was actually the one who added the VCF / VCA system to the original E-Mu Emulator. That (along with the PPG Wave 2 synth) was what set the standard for most of the digital gear that came out, right up until Korg built the M1.

Qwave · Post by **Qwave** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:49 am

There are pictures of the split Minimoog and the double Minimoog of Patrick Moraz in the photo section of the Yahoo group "The_Lords_of_the_Mini" in the "Your MiniMoog model D" folder.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/The_Lords_of_the_Mini