Yesterday I was bored and decided to go to the local GC and play some drums and waste time, I walk into the synth department and they had a Mini Moog set up for sale that they were letting people use aswell as a DX7, but I had to get my hands wet with the moog.
The CW mini's interface is like a perfect 1:1, but the sound, hrmm, the moog does not seem to have the high end as the minimax yet the minimax seems to have about 70% less phatness in the lows. I will however say that the minimax sounds very close to the minimoog minus the bass freq's.
I truelly think with some filtering and a boost on the low end the minimax could sound nearly identical. One thing I noticed was that the filter on the minimax did not seem nearly as deep as the actual moog does, but this is what was odd, the "iterpoles" filter seems to be nearly identical as the actual moog and isnt the minimax supposed to have the same -24db filter as the interpole?
I think I am going to start running the minmax thru the interpole and then run something like a TC EQsat on the input to emulate something like renbass plug and see how that sounds.
I gotta say, while the original minimoog is a true monster, having software emulations is just soo much easier lol, who ever was using the moog before me had all the dials tweaked to the point of the synth just make a static thump producing no sound, with in a few seconds I had a sweet ultra deep bass reminiscent of a Depechmode style, was cool.
I think stock sound, the minimax sounds moor like a moog source, which is like a revision of a minimoog with presets.
Just sharing a random thought I found interesting on how the two compare in sound, nothing scientific of course, just by ear
Cheers!