Arturia "MiniMoog"

Shayne White · Post by **Shayne White** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 4:27 pm

It looks like Arturia's trying to compete with CreamWare -- they've just announced a new "MiniMoog V" soft synth. They're adding a bunch of new modern features such as a dedicated LFO, oscillator sync, modulation matrix, blah blah blah...we'll see if it can match up to the likes of MiniMax. I didn't see anything about velocity control.

http://www.arturia.com

Shayne

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 4:34 pm

If there's one thing I admire about Arturia, it's their dedication to reproducing those old synths with all their quirks and limitations.

There was no velocity control on the Minimoog so why should they put it in? You get my drift

huffcw · Post by **huffcw** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:59 pm

They are also considering a hardware interface that will run their synths.

http://www.arturia.com/en/rackmmv_survey.html

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Joxer the Mighty · Post by **Joxer the Mighty** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 7:05 pm

I don't see how they can top the Minimax. Frankly, I'm pretty sick of analog simulations...well, with one exception...I would love to see Creamware do one of these:

http://www.tcelectronic.com/Virus

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 8:33 pm

Joxer, the Virus isn't an analog synth

Post by **hubird** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 8:49 pm

emulating a virtual analog synth...when do we get an emulated Minimax?

Joxer the Mighty · Post by **Joxer the Mighty** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 9:03 pm

Doh!!!

Shayne White · Post by **Shayne White** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 9:11 pm

What!? Isn't the MiniMax TRUE analog??

(Well, it certainly sounds like it....)

I find it amazing how "digital" has progressed to the point where it can emulate the way analog synths sounded *thirty years ago,* and *it's so revolutionary.* Of course, digital gives us many perks, such as staying in tune, software, presets, and MIDI....

Shayne

johnbowen · Post by **johnbowen** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 3:35 am

Just a quick comment...the Access Virus is coded for the Motorola 56000 DSP family.
This made porting it to ProTools and TC Electronics DSP cards 'relatively' easy, since the code is the same for those boards.

(Pulsar and Scope boards, as is generally known, use the Analog Devices SHARC processor, so this conversion would not be a trivial matter.)

cheers,
John B

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 5:31 pm

I agree with paulmartin, also it should go out of tune and have to be retuned by the factory and it should not have MIDI because MIDI wasn't invented at the time the original synth was made.

On 2004-01-15 16:34, paulrmartin wrote:
If there's one thing I admire about Arturia, it's their dedication to reproducing those old synths with all their quirks and limitations.

There was no velocity control on the Minimoog so why should they put it in? You get my drift

Post by **hubird** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 8:07 pm

it's getting academic now

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 8:38 am

Braincell, a MIDI interface was constructed for the Mimimoog( I think by sequential circuits). John McLaughlin had six Minimoogs hooked up to his guitar, one for each string!

Check out the song "All in the family" by Mahavishnu Orchestra.

By the way, I really laughed at the "out-of-tune" bit of your post. I didn't expect that

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Paul R. Martin - Are we listening?

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braincell · Post by **braincell** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 8:40 am

Forget the virtual Moog. I want a virtual Hartmann Neuron!

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 8:40 am

YES! Me too!

wavelength · Post by **wavelength** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 5:41 pm

On 2004-01-19 08:40, braincell wrote:
Forget the virtual Moog. I want a virtual Hartmann Neuron!

http://www.camelaudio.com/

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 6:03 pm

Do you have this? Seems like it might be something I would buy. The mp3 examples are impressive.

I think I had a similar feature on a sampler years ago. It took hours or days to render but came up with some incredible sounds.

Maybe this is the nearest thing to a virtual Hartmann Neuron.

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astroman · Post by **astroman** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 7:23 pm

I thought the same as Wavelength when I first saw that Camel page.
As long as I have no proof that it's their original work I consider this a steal of the Hartmann's concept and wouldn't even think of getting one.
But that's just my very personal opinion

cheers, Tom

darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:13 am

I don't think that additive resynthesis is a new concept from the Neuron. I checked out the Camel Audio synth and I must say it's pretty good.. for me, it's simply great for creating crazy new horror-movie style sounds, and with the right approach to the freq analysis/multisampling, it could be great for more 'realistic' sounds.

wavelength · Post by **wavelength** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:18 am

http://www.500sound.com/9600feat.htm

Axel Hartmann did not invent resynthesis, the Synclavier has been around for many a year (see link).

spiderman · Post by **spiderman** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 8:12 am

the synclavier is a kind of analyse-resynthesis thing ; not at all a new thing ! but a great thing indeed !!