mini moog clone

[Synthmanic at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/17/00 7:13:25 PM Central Daylight Time, 
efm3 at mediaone.net writes:

> If I wanted to clone the mini and I wanted to remain
>  faithful to the original but also wanted to avoid things 
>  people dislike. What would be some of the things I 
>  might want to consider?

 As long as you don't change anything from the Mixer to the VCA (this is the 
heart of the sound) it should be fine. If you can improve the original osc 
design, it would be great. Maybe use better resistors, trimmers and caps; and 
putting the tempco resistor on the expo converter instead of on the board. 
This might help. Also, don't forget the decay and glide switches that are on 
the left hand controller.

 As far as other "improvements" go, I really wouldn't go overboard on putting 
to many extras. Sync wouldn't be too much trouble to add, adjustable pulse 
and pulse width modulation would be okay. I'd lose the A-440 circuit, the 
space it uses could be better served by a small LFO. The ability to route the 
filter contour to the VCOs would be nice. A master octave switch would be 
convenient. 

Yeah, a Mini clone would be nice as long as you capture the heart and soul of 
it and that is dependent on its discrete design.

Dave