Talk:Minimoog

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I'm doing a little research on the minimoog and the book "Analog Days" by Pinch and Trocco(2002) suggests that it was Bill Hemsath and Jim Scott, two engineers working for Moog in 1969, who developed the Minimoog. It also says that David van Koevering was resposible for the marketing of the Minimoog, not its invention. I understand that the release date for the Minimoog model D was 1970. Hope this is useful! 86.133.221.39 (talk) 02:50, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Various sources give the release date of the Minimoog as 1970 or 1971. Can anyone give an authoritative source? -- The Anome 10:30, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Material to incorporate

The following is excerpted from the article Mini-Moog Synthesizers, which I am replacing with a redirect to Minimoog. It contains all the material from that article that might be worth salvaging for this one, but I don't have time to actually do the salvage job right now. So here it is; if nobody else gets back to it, I will. Sometime. eritain 21:03, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

The Minimoog has a 4-pole (24 dB/oct) low-pass with the typical cutoff, resonance, ADSR envelope and keybd tracking controls. There are also some very cool modulation possibilities via LFO, and external audio can be processed. Every editable parameter is on the front panel and clearly laid out. As well as an awesome sound, the Minimoog is a great teaching tool for anyone interested in classic additive synthesis. It even has an A440 tone so you can manually tune the oscillators which is nice since (like mosts analog synths that heat up) the tuning of even this machine can be a little bit unstable.
The Minimoog is responsible for some of the warmest and best analog synth bass, lead and whistle sounds ever. Its control panel can lay flat or propped up perpendicular to the keyboard. It also has a great wood casing. Very rugged. A very versatile synth, useful in all styles of music and easy enough for anybody to operate! It is used by The Chemical Brothers, The Orb, Kraftwerk, Jan Hammer, Nine Inch Nails, Vince Clarke, Gary Numan, Add N To (X), Rick Wakeman, 808 State, Air, Future Sound of London, Bushflange, Chick Corea, Uberzone, Depeche Mode, Recoil, Tangerine Dream, Mouse on Mars, Apollo 440, Ultravox, Dave Holmes, Jean-Michel Jarre, George Duke, Blondie, Rush, Keith Emerson, Joe Zawinul and Herbie Hancock.

Further exploration discloses that the text is a copyvio. eritain 21:13, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] need a diagram

something like a flowchart or circuit diagram, showing how the circuits connect and feed back into each other and so on 24.170.177.163 23:05, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Essential recordings

Had the article on my watch list for a while and let this one slide but, finally... the Essential recordings section appears wholly subjective as it stands. I happen to agree with most of the selections and it looks like others do too since it hasn't been subjected to much editing, however calling anything an 'essential' recording is editorialising unless we can provide some backup citations from books or articles. I propose a one-month moratorium while anyone who's interested in keeping the section as it is finds at least one citation backing the 'essential Minimoog recording' appellation of each of the items otherwise the item, or the list as a whole, goes. Cheers, Ian Rose 02:38, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

  • The Usage section also bugs me. It's turning into another never-ending list. I do like the first paragraphs describing its usage. That is useful information, especially to someone trying to learn what a Minimoog is and sounds like. I would dump the lists and merge the Essential info into Usage. For, against? --fataltourist 13:15, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
I agree about the "Essential Recordings". I say dump it or merge it into "Usage". However, I don't think the usage list should completely go, I can't imagine it getting too incredibly long. --24.205.251.41 21:26, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Errors to correct

Rick Wright palyed Minimoog in Dark Side LP;in Shine on You,crazy Diamond and Welcome to the Machine he played a Modular Moog model 55....


Thank You

Gianni —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.6.253.14 (talk) 08:58, 28 May 2008 (UTC)