Some Minis will have a dead zone circuit fitted to make the pitch wheel centre more easily. But the behaviour is much the same on both. I also prefer the look of the older smooth white wheels compared to the ridged ones of the later models. Kevin Lightner designed an updated opto electronic contact board that replaces the original contact board to get around this very problem. The key contacts will often need to be cleaned and tweaked so that you don't get squirelly notes and unwanted glides. The keyboard is the weak point on all of them. I prefer this simply because it stops the other two VCOs going out of tune when you adjust the octave setting.
Some older board ones, and all later ones, have octave buffers and you can tell because it'll have two little lack screws on the back panel just above the blank space in the VCO section. Some older ones (pre s/n 10175) will have newer boards in them. Even the ones with similar serial numbers. There are slight differences between them all though. In any case, I would take any working minimoog. What's the difference between the really expensive minimoogs and the "cheaper" units? Are the old boards that much "better" or is it just a pissing contest to see who can have the "most vintage" unit?įor me it's about playing a classic, awesome sounding synth, but it definitely doesn't matter if "this is the only one Rick Wakeman would use" or "because it has the Tk-421 mod that pumps it up a few more quads per channel" or if it was the first one that rolled off the line.don't care, just like the sound and the form and everything else that makes it awesome. I see some selling points listed as "older serial number" or "older, more desirable OSC/boards, etc.but they all seem to be in great condition and fully working so that's a pretty big difference in price. To the untrained eye (mine), they basically look the same, with a few subtle differences in the descriptions. Before I take such a huge plunge on something like this, I'd like to know more about them.įor example- If you look on ebay SOLD (not completed) listings, there are 11 recent sales ranging from $2500-6000 bucks! I've been noodling around on the Arturia Minimoog for so long and now I'm on a hardware kick. I'm not gassing for it too hard, but I know someday I will own one, maybe some of you can relate.
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