"This vintage Midimini by SE sounds big and bold just like the OG. This has the SE boards- recently cleaned and calibrated ... it holds tune like champ and no drift!
Get that Minimoog sound in a small door print by the best in the business, other than the "older" Moog.
The bottom right corner is slightly bent, it can still be racked and solid but this might not allow you to use all 4 screws, see pic. No other issues!"
"MIDIMOOG original early release: Minimoog boards inside by Studio Electronics with the BEST hi quality discrete componets (Old surplus USA military furniture)
Not to be confused with the new version, this is the absolute top and sounds amazing, same as RA Moog (same US surplus components inside)."
"It is essentially an original Model D with some added functionality like MIDI, LFO, etc. The VCO board must be a Studio Electronic board but not so sure about the power supply and VCF/VCA boards; check out the photos for reference. It sounds amazing at any rate, just like an original Mini."
"More than a Minimoog. The Midimini V30 is Studio electronic's Minimoog inspired rack mountable synth with a few added extras. They have been modding Minimoogs and building MIDI rack mounted Midiminis for longer than Moog in it's current form (after liquidation in the 80s Moog wasn't around for a while).
The Midimini is sonically the same as a Minimoog, a sonic pallet we are all familiar with, so in this video I concentrate on the places the Minimoog can't tread."
"Studio Electronics custom built MIDIMINI featuring a genuine Trumansburg era R.A. Moog full back end with board 3 and board 4 harvested from Minimoog # 1190 circa 1972 along with a genuine Moog oscillator buffer board. It sports full military spec potentiometers and controls throughout and beautiful hand wiring with precision. Routine maintenance was performed mid 2022 with the power supply caps updated along with a full calibration. This will ensure longevity for it’s next owner.
With R.A. and MuSonics Minimoogs fetching 6 figures from the high end dealers in recent years, we hope the buyer ends up being one of the 1001-1200 owners for the sake of preservation.
As you can see the inside of the unit is extremely clean and flawless. The outer cosmetic condition clearly shows signs of being moved from rack to rack over the last 30 some odd years."
Use the controls in the player above to skip around (drop down top right; skip controls bottom left).
"Videos from the SynthFest UK show in Sheffield put on by Sound on Sound Magazine"
Update: Smart MIDI Patchbay, & Ivo Beatrix Lorelei Persephone added to the playlist.
Playlist:
Synthfest UK 22: AJH Synth Patch Break Down With Dreams Of Wires
Synthfest UK 22: Adroit Synthesis - Granular Synth for Voltage Modular
Synthfest UK 22: MIDIum - SmartMIDI Foot Controller
Synthfest UK 22: Yamaha MODX+ Demo From Dom
Synthfest UK 22: Korg Drumlogue 1st UK Sighting
Synthfest UK 22: Rhodes - MK-8
Synthfest UK 22: RYK Vector Wave FM Module
Synthfest UK 22: Knobula Compact Skiff Demo Riffs
Synthfest UK 22: Studiologic - Numa-X Piano GT
Synthfest UK 22: Decksaver - Protective Covers
Synthfest UK 22: 3 New iLoud Precision Monitors
Synthfest UK 22: Dreadbox - Erebus MK2 and Hades
Synthfest UK 22: The Godfather Will Own Your Eurorack Mix
Synthfest UK 22: Soundgas - Rare Suzuki Waraku Koto Synth
Synthfest UK 22: Wang Synth Control - Wangulator
Synthfest UK 22: Sweet Discrete Can Pimp Your Vinyl Panels
Synthfest UK 22: Starsky Carr Meets Gaz Williams
Synthfest UK 22: myVOLTS Power and Audio Fixers
Synthfest UK 22: Transistor Sound Labs Stepper Sequencers
Synthfest UK 22: Studio-Electronics - MIDImini and SE-3
Synthfest UK 22: Bjooks - Patch and Tweak and Inspire the Music
Synthfest UK 22: Tileyard North
Synthfest UK 22: Kenton - Smart MIDI Patchbay
Synthfest UK 22: Expert Sleepers - Ivo Beatrix Lorelei Persephone
Synthfest UK 22: Synth Cables of all kinds
Synthfest UK 22: Roland SP-404 MK2 With 2.0 OS
Synthfest UK 22: More On The Eventide Misha
"Vintage Studio Electronics MidiMini! Recently sent to Studio Electronics getting completely overhauled!! All functions are fully updated and calibrated.Here is your chance to get a vintage synth that plays like new!! This synth will blow your mind as it sounds absolutely mind blowing!! Best bass I’ve ever heard!! Blows my voyager out of the water!!"
Just a reminder, today is BandCamp Friday when BandCamp waives its fees to support artists. Today is a good day to pick anything up on your radar. Be sure to see the MATRIXSYNTH Support page for BandCamp links!
"Pictured above is our beloved friend and loyal customer Andy Rivas in his South Carolina studio. He’s been buying vintage synths from us for 22 years. Purchases include the following meticulously serviced pieces: EMS VCS3, Korg MS20, ARP 2600 and Sequencer, Studio Electronics Midimini, Roland Juno-106, TB-303, RE-201, Octave Cat, Ensoniq Fizmo and Yamaha DX7. Andy’s recent music has been featured on episodes 57 and 82 of Jamie Lidell’s "Hanging Out with Audiophiles". Andy says: “You never know what you’re going to get these days when you’re buying vintage gear. Tone Tweakers is the only vintage gear seller I trust.” We’re really proud of the great tracks Andy’s made with our gear. Please check out his unique brand of acid-influenced techno at https://andyrivas.bandcamp.com"
"Studio Electronics MIDIMINI Analog Monosynth, you know what this is, the sound of a Moog Model D rackmounted with all the MIDI benefits, this unit is 100% functional."
"Three + Four = Heaven. The SE-3X: a three-voice paraphonic synth with four discrete, classic hardware filters.
Seen where the sound of success was heard, the SE-1(X)’s popularity with hitmakers, film composers and sound designers has spanned decades, and the 'X never quite rode off into the sunset. Now, it's blazing back with software sweetening and sweeping hardware refinements — innovations worthy of 30 years of rack time… and your time. Built attractively, built solidly, bringing you the bump 'n' thump and higher frequency clarity and warmth that has been the secret weapon of legends. ‘3X software available as an upgrade for ‘1X users.
Chords, Rings, and Feedback Wars video by StudioElectronics
"It’s all about the gain staging in this discrete beast: processing and managing the relative levels in each step of the V’s audio signal flow to allow for the introduction of desired noise and distortion. Clean is easy.
Feedback (loop), FBK (feedback) Gain, Amp Drive, individual Oscillator levels, and the main Volume all interact and alter one cherished fact after another; the 24dB ladder to heaven is also… everything, except for the burnished bookends, the dualistic dynamism of synthesizer tone: Ringmod and Crossmod. Fans of our ATC know this verity well–enjoy in somewhat better fidelity on our SoundCloud page.
Spoiler Alert! it really starts to get layered and multi dimensional and very satisfying, at around 7:27. Now go back and listen to the whole thing from the beginning.
Treatment:
Just a touch of compression from our vintage dbx 163X during tracking, into the my marvelous DP10 (will never switch), and a spot of verb in the last few seconds—the balance is pristine and massive Midimini V30."
"Once upon a drum machine, The Brothers St. Regis had to part with their beloved, stock TR-808; before it left the building, Greg St. Regis programmed this beat: "HE is The Rhythm Man, tapping at he backseat..." Several summers passed and it again found favor in their sight, after hundreds of cuts & creases and "Boomstar Brotherhood" #SE80 percussion pieces. Soon Rhodes chords followed the Rhythm-Man's-flow. It is commonly believed bass was next (30+ tracks): driving, testifying, border-defying Midimini V30, in the lead role, with wildly versatile and colorful programmable support from the SE-02. 10 or so passes of Omega 8—essentially MIDI Channel 1/1980’s style—broadened and brightened the Gospel of Chordal Excellence. The Oracle at Ableton/Atlanta spoke a Wayne Shorter spirit into the leads, so the SE-02 and Midimini began stacking up the solo flights, fighting and reuniting like play-cousin nights. Voices from the “Family Herrre” Chorus preached and ascended majestically—though soothingly prosaic at times—inspiring, shaping, begging, cajoling, demanding, elevating and refining the piece to unforeseen coherence and towering heights… feigning silence for moments, only to reanimate through & beyond fragmentation challenges with that magical dialect and love from #thelou
"Consider all that."
FINIS
Captain’s Log Supplemental 1182021:
Most if not all of the polyphonic detail work (apart from the Waves Morphoder vocoding), not tracing or amplifying the piano track MIDI, rather often clustering around spoken and sung WORD, like a gritty reverent glitter (WORD, arguably entirely too sacrosanct to digitally preserve… to orchestrate, yet now its dope message moves forward and out), was tracked note by Motu's brilliant “Split Notes” feature in #DP10 - Midimini V30 and SE-02 battling again for the muse’s attention/affection.
Original Midimini on the 1st and last conspicuous bass slides
Additional Cameos: Modstar Sensei, #Tonestar8106
Writers: Marc St. Regis, Greg St. Regis Produced by MSR Executive Producer Adrian Drummond
Special thx to Drummomd, Sean Charles, @huston.singletary"
"This vintage Midimini by SE sounds big and bold just like the OG. This has the SE boards- recently cleaned and calibrated ... it holds tune like champ and no drift!
