Arturia The One "Minimoog-V"

by Arturia

Product Features

• Faithful software reproduction of the legendary Minimoog synthesizer
• 500 presets made by a selection of talented sound designers
• VST, RTAS, and AU operation
• Doesn't go out of tune (unless you want it to!)
• Additional Functions: Modulation matrix, Arpeggiator, Independent LFO, Stereo Chorus and a Delay.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• ASIN: B0002GLKOM
• Item model number: Arturia
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 3, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,520 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #16 in Software > Video & Music > Software > Synthesizers

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

1971. At the NAMM convention, Bob Moog introduces the Minimoog, the very first compact and affordable synthesizer for musicians. With its fat sound and unparalleled filters, the Minimoog eventually became responsible for some of the best analog synth bass and lead sounds ever.

2004. At the NAMM show, Arturia introduces the minimoog V, a faithful reproduction of the Minimoog. Offering all the features of the original, the software version also brings polyphony, MIDI management, presets, coupled with other advantages of modern tools - behind the control panel are additional functions: a modulation matrix, an arpeggiator and an independent LFO as well as a stereo chorus and a delay.

But what about the core of the Minimoog, the sound? Thanks to TAE®, Arturia’s proprietary technology for emulating analog circuits, the minimoog V offers an unchallenged quality of sound. Sharp filters, aliasing-free oscillators, soft-clipping guarantee you have the best analog emulation on the market.

The minimoog V comes loaded with more than 500 presets made by a selection of talented sound designers. It is certainly an instrument which is going to bring a lot to your musical palette.

Features:

• Stereo synthesizer
• Mono / polyphonic (up to 32 voices per instrument with unison possibilities)
• Soft clipping function
• No aliasing from 0.1 Hz to 20 kHz
• 64-bit floating point precision
• Sampling rate: up to 96 kHz
• More than 500 presets, made by talented sound designers and artists
• Playable through a MIDI keyboard
• 3 voltage-controlled oscillators (with 5 waveforms)
• 1 LFO
• The 24 dB/oct filter!
• 1 noise generator
• 2 ADS(R) envelopes
• 1 VCA
• 1 mixer
• 1 modulation matrix offering up to 6 different connections (12 sources, 32 destinations)
• 1 arpeggiator
• 1 stereo delay
• 1 three-mode chorus
• 1 external audio input
• 1 external oscillator and filter modulation input

Required Configuration:
PC: Pentium II 500 MHz, 128 MB of RAM, Windows 9x/2000/ME/XP
MAC: G3 500 MHz, 128 MB of RAM, MacOS 9.2.2 or higher, Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Sound Card: Any sound card compatible with DirectX, ASIO, SoundManager or CoreAudiov

Compatibility:
PC: ASIO / DirectSound, Cubase 3.7 to SX, Ableton Live, Logic 4.7 or higher, Sonar 2.0 or higher, Pro Tools 5.x, Pro Tools 6.x
MacOS 9.2.2: Cubase 4.1 or higher, Logic 4.7 or higher, Digital Performer 3, Pro Tools 5.2
Mac OSX: CoreAudio, Cubase SX, Ableton Live, Pro Tools 6.x, Pro Tools 6.x, Logic 6 & DP4, Ableton Live

A 230-paged paper manual is provided in 3 languages: French, English and Japanese.

Copy protection: the installation CD is only required each time you want to import new banks of presets or when you install an update patch of the product.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Minimoog Emulation, December 20, 2004

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Mark D Burgh "Music, Writing, Art, Film, Hist... (Fort Smith, AR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Arturia The One "Minimoog-V" (CD-ROM)

If you're like me, you're dying to own a Minimoog, whether a vintage instrument, or a new Voyager, but don't have the ready cash to make a purchase. For a 20th of the cost of a new Minimoog and a 10th of the cost of a vintage model, you can buy this amazing emulation by Arturia, sanctioned by Bob Moog himself.

Using TAE (True Analog Emulation), the Arturia Minimoog V sounds just like the real thing. How do I know? I used to own a Minimoog (1973-1978) and mourn everyday that I ever let it go. The Arturia's true-to-life sounds make my dreams come true. Even better, Arturia's Minimoog V is polyphonic, and has features the old original Mini badly needed, such as a dedicated LFO, an arpegginator, and on-board reverd, delay, and chorus. Arturia also adds a matrix modulation feature, allow easy cross-polination of sound sources.

Along with Minimoog V's sterling interface comes many factory presets created by an array of synthesizer freaks including Klaus Schulze. Arturia itself provides updates, community boards, and excellent documentation.

If you want the phat, dirty, and analog sound of a Minimoog, but blanch at the price and the size, buy this one. I use it in Cakewalk Sonar Producers Edition with no problems whatsoever. Along my G-Force Mellotron, and my Kurzweil Hammond emulation, I am one happy prog freak.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Synth Emulator!, March 25, 2005

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Randall Isenhour "Home Studio Engineer" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Arturia The One "Minimoog-V" (CD-ROM)

I have been using this for three months now and love it!

The main thing I love about it is all the built-in patches that come from the manufacturer. More than half of them are throwaways, but the others give you enough of an introduction to the voices and oscillators that you can tweak them just a bit to get them where you want it. I think there are over 400 built-in patches, including Arpeggios, Basses, and Pads. I'm getting some serious Boards of Canada and Casino v. Japan voices here. There are some classic Moog sounds, for sure!

I'm using it with an M-Audio Keystation 49e ($99.95), which is essential in my opinion. You don't get polyphonic without a MIDI controller, and this is a good one if you don't already have something to drive the program.

THE ONE DRAWBACK: I'm also using it with Pro Tools LE 6.x on a PowerMac G5 and it works fine in standalone; however, I have a hard time patching into the M-box without going from the computer headphones jack. This is less than ideal as it introduces some white noise on the track. I'm working with someone to try and get around my hack.

I also have a 25-year-old Moog Opus III synth, so I know what to expect from the real thing. This is a great innovation for vintage synth fanatics like myself, and I recommend it highly.

I bought the Korg Legacy Collection and had to take it back because it wouldn't work on my PowerMac G5. I prefer Moogs anyway, so I would recommend this over the Korg Legacy Collection (especially because of the price)!

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mooogy!, April 5, 2005

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This review is from: Arturia The One "Minimoog-V" (CD-ROM)

I have played around with some of these virtual instruments to find that some of them are quite good-sounding. The Moog series VSTs are somewhat less attractive that, say ARP VST. They all are CP memory-consuming plug-ins that also require sound cards with good latency characteristics (otherwise you have to play the instrument in MIDI mode with a reduced latency, allowing for clicks and pops to appear, and then increase the latency before the recording is mixed down to an audio file). The Moog series have lots of factory settings that mostly out of the range of pleasant and purposeful sounds. It is often hard to use them either as leads or bass sounds, and they need to be tweaked so some extent. Besides, some of the sounds are overwhelming and destroy the rest of the sounds in your recording. If you're after bass sounds, I'd suggest the Arp 2600 VST instead.