minimoog clone

[Goddard, Duncan]

>>>>>>Keep the 440 tone if it's easy.
>>Waste of panel space IMHO...

agreed, tho' it seemed like a nice touch at the time; in practice, one
always has to tune everything up to some awkward bugger like a guitarist
with several guitars in different tunings.... or a 'tron. in our case, it's
usually the samplers that dictate the (live, anyway) "master" tuning, while
the moogs will sing along quite happily for hours at whatever pitch you tell
'em to.

>>>>>>A on-off-mom gate switch on the front panel.
>>Very nice!

bit of card under the key usually does the trick. more often missed out on
mono's is being able to repeatedly trigger using either the lfo or a
dedicated clock. I adopted the former for the prodigals and the latter for
the rogues and the pro-1, with a nice dual-concentric pot for the extra
clock-rate on the sci, and a pair of led's.
the rogue has this clock that can go from a pulse every 20 seconds to about
20Hz, while the original lfo has a x10 range switch so it goes up into audio
territory. modulating the filter with the "emphasis" right up produces a
sort of woodblock noise. the trigger can be left routed or applied
momentarily.

> >>>>>>Add a positive GATE input.
>>Why do S-trig anyway. All we do is convert to positive trigger, and
>>its easier to go from positive to S-trig anyway !

I can see the appeal of using a closure rather than a voltage for triggering
*within* the synth, but it sucks for interfacing, if only because no-one
else really adopted it. they're both there inside the moog anyway.

> >>>>>>Gate and CV outputs.
>>I'd like a whole patch panel. Maybe as an accessory that fits a 1U
>>rack below the main panel...

or adopt the rogue solution- stereo jack sockets.

>>>>>>Hot vco levels so they can overdrive.
>>OK if you like... I'll turn mine down.

I thought the mini did this already..... the rogue does.

>>>>>>Add a separate LFO, but not if it means losing
> >>>>>>the vcf control by vco3.
> 
vclfo maybe? but definitely a separate entity. the yamaha cs30 (and probably
other cs's) has envelope control routed to the vclfo, and some weird
retriggering or syncing from the eg's too. or maybe I did that to it....

>>Yeah but where do you fit the extra knobs ???

well, since this is quite a radical redesign already, why not make room for
four oscillators in the osc section instead of three?

>>>>>Ext CV input gets added to the midi CV. So you can
> >>>>>transpose on the fly from another keyboard. 
>>If MY synths don't do this trick when I get them, they get modified until 
>>they do !!!

again, I thought the mini was like this already. the prodigal is, and on my
rogue, it's selectable. after a little while, the synth "forgets" which key
you pressed and needs reminding to stay in tune, unless the aforementioned
bit of card is in place. but I mean transposition (which isn't real
transposition anyway) from it's own keyboard while external cv runs things.

so, if you're going to redesign the thing quite drastically, maybe there'd
be room for a wee tiny pin-patch, say 8x8. this would allow, in the minimum
of panel space, lots of weird patching between the various "modules" of the
mini-clone.... you could add inverters to the eg's and have them appear as
cv sources on the pin-patch along with keyvolts, the lfo, the pitchwheel,
one or two of the main oscillators..... ok, maybe 10x10....

would you get a cabinet maker to copy the original box? and then base a new
front panel on the original too?
are the knobs and switch-tops still available?

duncan.



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