"These early ones like this, as I understand it, were actually original Mini Moogs that SE racked up and added midi to. Later models were their own creation, but these early ones were an actual MiniMoog in there and this one sounds like it. Works great and is super musical."
Note the video above is from Kick.S in 2009 and in the listing for demo purposes.
"Studio Electronics MIDIMini in good working order. This is not the new reissue but an original from the early 1990s.
It's basically a Minimoog, in a 19-inch rack case, with MIDI and a lot of really useful extra features. These include a dedicated LFO, oscillator sync, a Sweep control and full MIDI control including velocity and aftertouch sensitivity. Sounds exactly like a Minimoog should, except more stable and a lot more versatile!
"This demo is an attempt to capture the raw power and fatness of the Studio Electronics Midimini V30- High quality monitors or headphones are recommended. We do recommend hearing it 'in person' if at all possible. However if you can not, and are curious to know what the raw oscillators sound like- This video is for you Starting with a single oscillator, various filter and resonance settings, and envelope settings. As the video progresses the sounds get a little more complex and wild."
Midimini V30: Monosynth Polysynth #2
Published on Mar 21, 2020 StudioElectronics
"A Bass Odyssey was planned (and promised) yet a more salient inspiration was followed. And it was/is good. Built on the same shell of our mid-80s ST. REGIS tune, “You Lover Lost,” this vid features a near punishingly poppin’ bass response to the initial backstage band effect, and then drifts purposefully into organy, multi-tracked lead slides; a dreamy Fm gathering of heavenly, ethereal eternals focus and fire a Quadnic-like pulse, after that haunting “Sound in my Head” patch made the way straight for its duality. Earthy Taurus-like pedal vibrations praise and present reprise tonalities, and wise culminating paraphonic conversations. Revelations ensue.
OK, THAT was fun. In short, the MIDIMINI V30 makes sounds you like—well beyond the typical; the patchpoints, gain-staging, ringmod, triangle wave #1 wrapped around the filter, crossmod, and Boomstar LFO see to that. 🎧 or better per favore.
SoundCloud audio available.
"This demo is an attempt to capture the raw power and fatness of the Studio Electronics Midimini V30- High quality monitors or headphones are recommended. We do recommend hearing it 'in person' if at all possible. However if you can not, and are curious to know what the raw oscillators sound like- This video is for you
Starting with a single oscillator, various filter and resonance settings, and envelope settings. As the video progresses the sounds get a little more complex and wild. Enjoy!"
"Greg St. Regis suggested I abandon my long form addiction, and parse out more digestible bits, and so I have. An added benefit: I have cherry-picked elements which don’t actually talk to each other in the normal course of business—in Part 4 (see below).
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Part 1: Paraphonic, DAW multitracked chords, and single zone sample stretches—why do they sound so good in DP10’s Nanosampler?—are the focus here… well there is a slush/smush of everything actually (Including analog percussion & FX), although in Part 2 the emphasis will be on the bass and the wicked lines we make.
OK, we’ve covered Part 2.
Part 3: Iso leads and their deliciousness.
Part 4, you ask? My long form habit—the complete piece—which is decidedly more concise than usual.
Sometimes it’s hard to wrap my mind around how outstanding this V30 sounds. The gain staging: Oscillator levels, AMP DRIVE, FEEDBACK, Feedback Gain (FBK GAIN), and the final OUT stage, make for a vast and yet intimate micro-climate of tone, warmth and dirty, usually reserved for guitar players and their axes, amps, and pedals (lovers too). Slide on over instruments with necks; the Midimini V30 has its eyes on your prize.
And the patch points which can go #OutsToOuts keep it pushing and pulsing well beyond the call of duty.
"A fun, live DAWless jam sequenced all on the Polyend Seq using: Studio Electronics V30, Modal Electronics Craft Synth 2.0, Radikal Technologies Delta CEP A, Dreadbox Nyx V2, Jomox Alpha Base, and Analogue Solutions Fusebox! No external FX used."
"A short take of a DAW-less jam with the Studio Electronics Midimini V30, Jomox Alpha Base, and Modal Electronics Skulpt. Sequenced via the Polyend Seq !"
"30 years after its first release, the Studio Electronics MIDI Mini V30 takes the original concept of a MIDIfied rack MiniMoog but improves significantly on the design. As Marc says "How we would have liked to originally built it"
Studio Electronics Midimini V30 Demo With Patches [No Talking] Published on Dec 24, 2019 VCO USA
Note this post has been updated a few times. Original post below.
"A collection of 10 patches w/ Preset Templates for the Minimini V30. Time stamps below for the specific patch and the patch sheets appear at the last 10 seconds of each clip.
0:03 - The Impossible Drum 'Kit'
1:48 - Aggro Bass
2:35 - FM Sync Lead
3:48 - Screamin' Triangles
5:11 - Filter FM Shark Bass
6:26 - 4th Wobble Bass
7:58 - Bigger Than Yours Bass
9:00 - Classic Sync
9:51 - Pluck You (Arp)
10:57 - Dreamy Drone Chord
"30 years later and here we are... glorious sound makes that possible. All honor and praise to the geniuses at R. A. Moog Co, especially Bill Hemsath, and Mr. Moog himself, a person with whom I (MSR) shared a lunch space at NAMM in the 1990s—it's something folks.
Some internal patching on "Registered Pulses", "Voo R U", and "1st Midimini V30", not that I can remember what went where. No FX however, (with the exception of a wet channel on Rach of Ages 2), no compression, limiting, only a touch of some spot normalizing on several tracks. Essentially raw and un-pestered, synth and factory direct honesty—still such a lonely word.
Oh yes, and I created a few stereo tracks from multiple takes; who could resist? I'm sure you can spot them.
Enjoy and Merry Christmas,
Marc St Regis 12/24/19"
"Many can recall dialing up Midim-g/Midimini patches that fit a song so perfectly that they inspired even greater creativity; shapely, sometimes sinuous sounds whose essense called out to you; emotive sounds you never wanted to change; sounds you lovingly tracked, notated and revered; sounds as vital as the lyrics or lead vocal—that solid, insistent, articulate bounce, bravado, and twangy bang. Was there another sensible, MIDI-driven rackmount choice for immaculate synth-bass and lead lines?
November 2019 brings the SE Midimini V30 to the table, and nothing has been lost in the translation of this end-of-decade Analog essential. A raft of brand-new hardware features, extensive software sweetening, and modular connections open the window even wider to an already stunning Analog view.
It's highlight time again:
Through-hole build: Every. Single. PC board.
Classic 4-pole, 24 db/oct, voltage-controlled Lowpass Ladder Filter, with voltage-controlled Cutoff.
Semi-Modular Mini: Standard issue CV & Gate, and # OutsToOuts-friendly patchability of voltage, amplifier, and key tonal mastering tap points (1/8" Eurorack Connections).
Classic Midimini Cross Mod and Boomstar-perfected Ring Mod.
Amp Drive: Boomstar Modular AMP saturation and overdrive imported into 'V30 world.
Output Feedback loop and gain control—the old Low Output to External Input hack—hardwired and fine-tuned—interacts expressivley with Amp Drive.
MIDI-syncable, AFM*-capable, multi-waveform LFO, routable to VCF and VCO.
LFO Out patch point for deep modulation or oscillation creation.
LFO Gate (LFO pulse of VCF/VCA) from the SE-02.
OSC 1 Triangle Wave to amplifier (bypasses VCF) for high Resonance setting/low frequency compensation.
Sweepable OSC Oscillator 2 to Oscillator 1 Sync.
Handy Boomstar Drone feature.
Envelope 2 Master Mode: ENV2 (VCA) assumes control of Filter (VCF) Envelope.
Expressive Linear and Exponential Glide.
Front Panel-mounted External Audio input with level control.
Independent Release control of Filter and Amplifier.
Boomstar MIDI Learn feature for MIDI, Aftertouch and Modwheel.
Low/Last/High Note Priority, Env 1 inverting, VCF/VCA dynamics, and VCF Envelope Multi-trigger."
Click the images for the full size shots. Had to shrink them down a bit to format the page.
The MIDIMini as you all likely know is Studio Electronics rackmount Minimoog. They originally converted vintage Minimoogs to the MIDIMoog and then followed with their own designed MIDIMini. You can find pics of a MIDIMoog here and an original MIDIMini here.
"Studio Electronics Midimini synthesizer, essentially a rackmount version of a Moog Minimoog Model D. It's the best of both worlds, providing a smaller easy to transport rack version of a Model D synth along with Midi and a few added features. This unit is fully functional and in good shape, front is very clean mint, with some signs of wear on the top/bottom/sides of the unit. Sounds absolutely killer, one of the best for phat leads and basses."
"Excellent, 100% analogue clone of the Moog Minimoog Model D with MIDI and an added LFO.
Full working order. Serviced here and supplied with our usual warranty.
This is a great clone. The short version of the story is that after the original Minimoog went out of production Studio Electronics started producing the MidiMoog which contained original Moog boards. When those ran out they produced a further run with boards the built themselves – the MidiMini.
Has the same basic layout as the classic Model D, with a few changes. The easiest way to understand what they’ve done is to read the excellent MidiMoog review from Music Technology Magazine 1989."
"Tried to recreate the Van Halen 1984 intro sound on the Nord Stage 2.
Bass sound made with MidiMini from Studio electronics. The sound is then split at the upper keyboard to a sample from Oberheim OBX. Some internal fx is also used."
Here’s something you don’t see everyday. A custom Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 Rev 3.2 modified into a rack with MIDI by Studio Electronics, the P-Five. Before they made their own synths, they modified classics like the Minimoog into the Midimini, the Oberheim OB-8 into the OBie-Eight, and the Prophet-5 into the P-Five. The P-Five appears to be the rarest of the three followed by the OBie-Eight, followed by the Midimini - at least as far as they come up for sale.
"It is an analog monosynthe module that puts MIDI in minimoog and put it in 4 U rack size. The width of the sound making has been greatly expanded compared to the original minimoog such as oscillator sink, sweeper, etc, which is equipped with modulation dedicated LFO which can be blended with oscillator 3. Because we can control cutoff and volume of filter by velocity and after touch, expressive power is up. There are scratches in some places. There is a curvature of the rack ear in the upper left and the lower right. accessories Copy Japanese manual"
"Studio Electronics - Midimini - Rack mounted Moog Minimoog with extra features - Analog Monophonic Synthesizer --- In excellent condition! 100% functional! Looks great! Sounds amazing!! Besides MIDI, extra LFO and modification features added, the oscillator 2 sync and sweep alone are worth the price of entry. Has the original Moog Minimoog boards. Has a little rack rash as seen in photos. A couple of pots are a tiny bit scratchy/noisy, but after I moved them back and forth a bit, the scratchy/noise disappeared." [likely dust]
