MOTM

Hi,
 I own a Mini as well. I wonder sometimes exactly how much synth to synth 
variation exists within these old beasts. My Mini's sound really does not 
impress me all that much, but I think there may be something wrong with it. 
Either that, or it's just one of the Minis that got the short end of the 
stick while being shoved through the production line. ;) 

 In contrast to Paul Haneberg's preference with his Mini and Memorymoog, I 
feel that my Memorymoog sounds much better than my Mini. Even just doing a 
filter sweep sounds more pleasing on the Memorymoog (shrug).  In fact, even 
the Moog Source seems to have more of that powerful, thick, and warm "Moog 
sound". 

  I don't really know the reason for this. I do notice that when tuning the 
oscillators on the Mini that I can hear a subtle (what sounds like) soft sync 
happening. Maybe this is part of the reason for the shortcomings in sound? I 
have installed an earlier version osc board, but it didn't seem to improve 
things much. 

 I'd love to be able to get this Mini up to speed someday... I'll just have 
to find out what the problem is in the first place! ; )

 Andrew


In a message dated 8/6/02 9:56:19 AM Central Daylight Time, phaneber@... 
writes:

> I've owned two minimoogs and a memorymoog plus.  I also own at 
>  present two Studio Electronics SE-1s which is sort of a mini in a 
>  rack with programming.  (I've probably owned more synths than 99% of 
>  the people in this group.)  One of the mini's sounded substantially 
>  better than the other.  The older one of the two definitely sounded 
>  better, but it was also less stable.  I didn't think the memorymoog 
>  sounded nearly as good as either mini.