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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?

Der Werkstatt can also fill some of these requirements.

And it has a full-range oscillator.

midilifestyle wrote: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

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

midilifestyle wrote:Limitations are good for ingenuity

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