Minimoog

[Bristol_Jonesey]

Anyone know of a decent, cheapish Minimoog vst?

I've done a search but there appear to be loads available, at wildly differing price points

[mettelus]

Do you happen to have Z3TA+2? Muz3um had made two patch banks for it years ago, and Minimoog was several of the presets from them. I seem to recall other synths that have Minimoog patches (although the synth itself is not focused on the Minimoog), but Z3TA+2 was the first one that came to mind. 

NI's Monark is supposedly one of the better ones. I picked that up with Komplete a few years back, but not used it enough to speak to it.

[Byron Dickens]

Cherry Audio.

[Starship Krupa]

11 hours ago, Bristol_Jonesey said:

Anyone know of a decent, cheapish Minimoog vst?

Minimogue VA is a favorite of mine. I'm not sure how faithful it is to the original hardware Minimoog, but it's free, so check it out. Scroll down on that page.

[Bristol_Jonesey]

Looks interesting, I'll try that one out later

Thanks

[TracingArcs]

1 hour ago, Starship Krupa said:

Minimogue VA is a favorite of mine. I'm not sure how faithful it is to the original hardware Minimoog, but it's free, so check it out. Scroll down on that page.

Agree. Have been using this for a long time. And find I enjoy its tone more then the paid ones I have. And some good presets within it (Gunnar loves Jesus is a fav)

[Starship Krupa]

12 hours ago, Bristol_Jonesey said:

Looks interesting, I'll try that one out later

Thanks

Couple of things I forgot to mention:

It can be fussy the first time to figure out how to load the presets, but once you do it successfully the first time, they come up fine every time afterward.

Second, while as TracingArcs says, there are some good presets, they are old school and don't slather a ton of stereo chorus, delay, and reverb on them like today's factory patches all seem to. Most of them don't use any of those FX at all, so when auditioning presets, I advise at least using stereo chorus, and maybe add some reverb, too.

The first time I ran through the factory presets, I started out thinking they were kinda "meh," but then it hit me: there aren't any FX on them. They're like the opposite of A|A|S patches where it sounds like everything is running through the Cocteau Twins' rack rig.

I don't like that I (we) have become so used to factory synth sounds being so heavily effected, but I understand why it's no longer feasible to do it any other way. Everyone auditions synths by running through the factory sounds. They have to sound great in isolation or your synth won't sell. But when it comes time to actually use factory patches in a mix, I usually find myself turning off reverb, narrowing chorus (or using stereo management processors), and high passing them to leave room to hear the other instruments.

This is one of the biggest reasons I shelled out for Chromaphone and Ultra Analog VA: I just wanted to be able to turn off the damn reverb. A|A|S are smart marketers. Their soundpacks do sound the same using their Player as they do in their synth products, but you can't turn the reverb off. I've never made my own patch in either of those synths, and if A|A|S Player had a way to adjust reverb level, I wouldn't have bought the synths.