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)
 * Way after the fact - MoogMusic's website states the Minimoog (model D) was introduced in 1970. This would be understood as release date for sale to the general public. Hemsath had come with the prototype during his 'lunch hour' at Moog using bits and pieces of discarded items he found in the factorys attic. It is true that Van Koevering was the one who successfully marketed the Minimoog and became a vice president at Moog. Scott was also deeply involved with the Minis development, but so were many other engineers and employees at Moog. Pinch & Trocco suggest from the info they gathered interviewing these, and other folks, that it was truly a team of individuals that lead to the final version of the Minimoog. THX1136 (talk) 01:46, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

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)

Maybe more information could be added, for example on the development leading up to model D - which was the first to feature the now famous Modulation and Pitch Wheels. Model C was the closest to the release of model D and also sorted a adjustable control panel. Model B used rocker switches and so on. Suntimers (talk) 18:36, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

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)

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)

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)

Also, there were no minimoogs used on Gates of Delirium (or Relayer at all), because Rick Wakeman wasn't with the band at the time, and his replacement Patrick Moraz used ARP synthesizers instead. 82.46.73.54 (talk) 22:58, 2 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Sources for these claims would be interesting. Sources I'm familiar with, including Wikipedia itself. credit the EMS Synthi A and/or VCS3 for the synth sounds on Dark Side of the Moon and "Welcome to the Machine."  I've never seen any indication Rick Wright used a Moog 55 with Pink Floyd.  The Moraz claim seems iffy given that when he toured with Yes he used 2 regular Minimoogs and a custom double Minimoog onstage. Tim gueguen (talk) 06:06, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

The summery below the picture of the Mini Moog says that it uses CV / Gate - This is incorrect, it uses CV / S-Trig which is basically a on / off switch (source is page 70 - 018 Mini Moog Users Manual - July 1971)  -  A easy way of interfacing the Mini Moog was to feed the Gate signal into the Base of a Transistor and then have it power a reed relay which then acts as a switch Suntimers (talk) 18:36, 3 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Suntimers (talk • contribs) 17:37, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

More Yes errors to correct: The Yes album songs such as Starship Trouper and Wurm do not have any synthesizers. The album was recorded when the band's keyboardist was Tony Kaye. He was fired and replaced by Rick Wakeman, in part, because Kaye did not want to play the newer technologies of the time like synthesizers and the Mellotron. Kaye played only piano and organ on The Yes Album. His principal keyboard was the Hammond organ. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.24.235.141 (talk) 10:50, 19 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry I heard Tony Kaye quit YES voluntarily because the music was becoming too complex, he later rejoined and the group featured two keyboardists, he and Wakeman. He played a minimoog on the YES ALBUM, just one note with a filter sweep.

About the CHICAGO reference: They performed that song "I've Been Searching (So Long)" on a TV special back in the '70's and used an ARP 2600. *****Scotty AUG,15,2011 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.32.235.16 (talk) 03:16, 15 August 2011 (UTC)