Synapse Audio Minimoog emulation "The Legend" for VST/AU and RE released!

[DuX]

Ive never understood the whole Moog hype. Whats so good about it anyway?

It makes your pizza taste incredible! Worth every penny, I tell ya.

For everything else that matters, look at chk071's post. If I won the lottery...

[Halonmusic]

Define "the same". They surely won't sound the same.

Alright. Maybe they wont sound the same, but many synthesizers can do what the Moog's can do.

[Halonmusic]

Ive never understood the whole Moog hype. Whats so good about it anyway?

It makes your pizza taste incredible! Worth every penny, I tell ya.

For everything else that matters, look at chk071's post. If I won the lottery...

If you won the lottery, why not just buy a a massive modular system?

[DuX]

Define "the same". They surely won't sound the same.

Alright. Maybe they wont sound the same, but many synthesizers can do what the Moog's can do.

That's so true. People are blinded by brands.
I can get almost the same basses with Synth-1. Moog synths are overhyped.

[Halonmusic]

Define "the same". They surely won't sound the same.

Alright. Maybe they wont sound the same, but many synthesizers can do what the Moog's can do.

That's so true. People are blinded by brands.
I can get almost the same basses with Synth-1. Moog synths are overhyped.

Glad someone else feels the same as me. And who wants to buy an overpriced, overhyped, mono synths when any synth could do what Moog's can do? Sure i guess its all about the filter and stuff, but still.

[beau921]

Ive never understood the whole Moog hype. Whats so good about it anyway?

From what i can say... lovely filter, really "thick" and poundy sound, very fast, snappy envelopes, and, for the Minimoog, there's surely also a big factor or accessibility, and play-ability, which makes it easy to use it on stage. Anyway, if Moog in general isn't for you, then it's surely difficult to bring the merits near. For me, they manufacture some of the finest, if not THE finest analog synths of them all.

+1000

I got a MiniMOOG Model D Reissue a couple of months ago.

Impeccable quality, timeless sound, and worth every cent!

Even with the great advances in computer technology, the various MOOG software emulations are a substitute, not a replacement, for a real MOOG.

[Teksonik]

software emulations are a substitute, not a replacement, for a real MOOG.

Let me fix that for you....hardware Moogs are a substitute, not a replacement for software synths.

[Richard_Synapse]

Ive never understood the whole Moog hype. Whats so good about it anyway?

Leaving aside the subjective stuff (great sound etc), what I'm interested in when looking at vintage-analog synths is how they differ from a typical digital synth. There's always something, even if it's just a minor detail. In case of the Model D, however, it is a whole bunch of things. This makes it particularly interesting in my book.

Richard

[Yorrrrrr]

Ive never understood the whole Moog hype. Whats so good about it anyway?

Leaving aside the subjective stuff (great sound etc), what I'm interested in when looking at vintage-analog synths is how they differ from a typical digital synth. There's always something, even if it's just a minor detail. In case of the Model D, however, it is a whole bunch of things. This makes it particularly interesting in my book.

Richard

Yes, and you guys pretty much captured, in software form, many of the subtleties that make the Minimoog Model D the most iconic synthesizer of all times.

[Halonmusic]

Ive never understood the whole Moog hype. Whats so good about it anyway?

Leaving aside the subjective stuff (great sound etc), what I'm interested in when looking at vintage-analog synths is how they differ from a typical digital synth. There's always something, even if it's just a minor detail. In case of the Model D, however, it is a whole bunch of things. This makes it particularly interesting in my book.

Richard

Well atleast you guys added some stuff not available on the original. Polyphony is one of them. I like when developers do just that. Maybe i should demo the Legend.

[carrieres]

Well atleast you guys added some stuff not available on the original. Polyphony is one of them. I like when developers do just that. Maybe i should demo the Legend.

Yes, demo it because there is already 4 voices of polyphony

[Taurus]

For me "The Legend" is the first full replacement for a Minimoog Model D. No need to buy a hardware moog.

[BONES]

Yes, and you guys pretty much captured, in software form, many of the subtleties that make the Minimoog Model D the most iconic synthesizer of all times.

Except what made the Minimoog so iconic was it's portability. Nobody held onto them once better synths from the likes of Sequential Circuits and Oberheim came along. I started going to see bands in 1979 and I honestly don't think I've ever seen anyone using a Minimoog on stage. Everyone had Prophet Vs and Pro-One's and MS-20s and Odysseys and Jupiter 8s and OB-XAs and CS-80s and pretty much anything but a Minimoog. I used to see them in shops, though, so you could still buy them. It's just that nobody did.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

Yes, and you guys pretty much captured, in software form, many of the subtleties that make the Minimoog Model D the most iconic synthesizer of all times.

Except what made the Minimoog so iconic was it's portability. Nobody held onto them once better synths from the likes of Sequential Circuits and Oberheim came along. I started going to see bands in 1979 and I honestly don't think I've ever seen anyone using a Minimoog on stage. Everyone had Prophet Vs and Pro-One's and MS-20s and Odysseys and Jupiter 8s and OB-XAs and CS-80s and pretty much anything but a Minimoog. I used to see them in shops, though, so you could still buy them. It's just that nobody did.

By that logic though, the DX7 is "better" than all that stuff because everyone had a DX7 in the eighties and you saw them everywhere. And all those pointy guitars with sharp edges must have been better than 50's and 60's Fenders because in the 80's you'd have seen a lot of bands playing pointy guitars. There's a lot of reasons you may not have been seeing Minimoogs (cost, lack of polyphony, looking to lug less gear around on gigs) but I'd be careful about the using phrases like "better synths" in that context. I've heard a lot of people argue the Minimoog has never been bettered as a bass and lead synth, so taste is also a big factor, and how we define "better" and "best" and "for what" factors in too. It certainly wouldn't be the best synth for deep pad sounds, but does that make a Jupiter-8 a better synth than a Minimoog? What if I need a fat, punchy bass? The Mini would almost certainly win that shoot-out.

[v1o]

Yes, and you guys pretty much captured, in software form, many of the subtleties that make the Minimoog Model D the most iconic synthesizer of all times.

Except what made the Minimoog so iconic was it's portability. Nobody held onto them once better synths from the likes of Sequential Circuits and Oberheim came along. I started going to see bands in 1979 and I honestly don't think I've ever seen anyone using a Minimoog on stage. Everyone had Prophet Vs and Pro-One's and MS-20s and Odysseys and Jupiter 8s and OB-XAs and CS-80s and pretty much anything but a Minimoog. I used to see them in shops, though, so you could still buy them. It's just that nobody did.

That is the normal course of life for any model of synth. It is not unique to the Model E. Tastes change and things get of fashion. People start to want shiny new things.

In the 80’s people were throwing out their Rolands, Sequential Circuits and OBXs for new digital synths such as the DX7 and D50 etc. Then in the 00’s the used prices of analogue synths shot up drammatically which led to the current analogue resurgence.