I’m looking at options for using the CV track to add a 5th voice to my Analog Keys. Preferably something knob-per-function this time, and I really love what I’m hearing about the Minitaur but I’m also starting to wonder if it’s mostly just going to duplicate what I should already be able to do quite well on the AK.
Does anybody have both and think it’s a worthy addition or would I be better off looking at the AK for all of my bass and getting something more unique for voice 5?
Minotaur’s bass is pretty unique, and it could be an awesome 5th voice to add to an A4K !
Seriously, the A4 can’t touch or duplicate minotaur’s bass. If you need that kind of growly earth shattering bass, get it 
All right, quite a resounding endorsement then!
I have a Streichfett that’s within the 30 day store return period and I’m seriously disappointed with 90% of the the unit, so I’ll do a part swap then.
nah, I run a minitaur as my main bass synth and it goes great with the AK. sometimes I forget to disable the midi ext when I’m playing the AK and for a second it’s like WHOA, where’d that thickness come from? It can blend really well.
I just picked a Minitaur up last week to complement my AK and it has fulfilled every expectation. I used to have a sub phatty, so I had a reference point as to what Moog could do and in terms of bass, it can’t be beaten. The bass patches on the AK are extremely varied, but I could not get them to cut through a mix. They can easily get lost under the other tracks unless you do some tweaking. The Minitaur changes all that. Because it’s a different beast, it cuts through the mix and ultimately sounds deeper, fatter, squelchier, and more organic than any bass patch I’ve heard from the AK yet. Don’t get me wrong, the alien modern sound of AK bass is also really really cool, but for more traditional bass that’s deeper and more punchy, go Moog. I think they have won that corner of the market completely.
For me, it feels very much like having my sub phatty back, with a smaller footprint. Not to mention the insane sequencing added by Elektron!!! It truly is a match made in heaven and big thanks to this forum for showing me how to hook it all up. You’re going to love it, congrats!
answer to the question…
no way
praise of the minitaur…
+1
I actually had a minitaur before I had an A4 but even with the A4, the minitaur is almost always in the mix.
Minitaur ended up being out of stock, but I really loved the Bass Station II so I got one of those instead. I loved the sound enough to be won over by it being a fully independent machine that doesn’t need another one to control it.
Definitely coming back to the Minitaur over the coming months though. I don’t ‘need’ it now but the sound is pretty special and I don’t think a Moog ever duplicates anything.
Out of stock everywhere!? Bad luck man.