Moog Celebrates 10 Years of the Minimoog Voyager

"The Minimoog Voyager turns ten. For the next 60 days Moog will release exclusive content, free giveaways, special offers, and big announcements on this timeline.


As the first Minimoog Voyager left the Moog Factory on August 31st 2002, it carried with it a message, that Moog was back and a new era of analog synthesizer had begun. The Voyager is the crowning achievement of one of the centuries greatest minds, and has stood as a testament to Dr. Robert Moog, and his dream to make electronics sing. Ten years later the Minimoog Voyager stands as the world's most iconic synthesizer. To this day each instrument is made by hand with the love and care of Moog's craftsmen..."

Check out the Voyager timeline here.

via Moog Music on Facebook

Update: just wanted to capture the following regarding the prototype Voyager. If you haven't already, be sure to click on the link above for the full timeline. It's fascinating history.  I can't see a way to larger versions of the images there though.  If anyone knows how,  feel free to comment or shoot me an email (icon on the bottom right).  That said, on the prototype:

"The first fully functional Voyager prototype was built from Bob’s original oscillator and filter development, combined with modified Moogerfooger circuitry to serve as functions such as the LFO.

The Voyager was originally envisioned as an interconnected collection of independent circuit boards, however it was realized that this type of hardware architecture would limit the capability to make production model Voyagers. To circumvent this problem and stream line production the smaller modules were combined into larger boards reducing the amount of wiring necessary in the final product.

The original Voyager prototype did not have the white overlay seen on modern Voyagers nor did it have a functioning touch pad. While the touch pad was planned as can be seen in the photos actual functionality was not added until the Voyager went into production. The first touch pads were hand made by Bob Moog and tempered in his home oven."