Re: Patch to emulate Taurus
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2025 3:47 am
The Moog Taurus VCOs had a V/Hz and not a V/oct characteristic. Much like the Moog 901B modules. On V/Hz VCOs, you can't get normal musical interval detuning. You only get static differences in frequency, These are caused by manually slightly added or substracted DC voltages from the VCO input. The same voltage changes cause the normal detune on V/oct VCOs.
The Taurus II did had V/oct and had no constant beating, but normal detuning.
The Taurus III and the Minitaur got the classic constant beating. But, at least the Minitaur, also got the normal detuning too. This is most likely done by some clever software and the built in DAC controlling the VCOs pitch very precisely. The later Moog synth like the ones starting with "Sub" and the Moog One got this too.
The Taurus II did had V/oct and had no constant beating, but normal detuning.
The Taurus III and the Minitaur got the classic constant beating. But, at least the Minitaur, also got the normal detuning too. This is most likely done by some clever software and the built in DAC controlling the VCOs pitch very precisely. The later Moog synth like the ones starting with "Sub" and the Moog One got this too.