1970 to 1981 the Minimoog^TM was build over 13.000 times: our respect, Dr. Moog! 13.000 units are quite a lot. But not enough. So many people wanted one and only few were lucky enough to get hold of a unit.

That hasn’t been you? No problem – here is yours! OK, it’s not the original. But Minimax ASB is as close as you can get. The Sound: digitally re-mastered down to each detail. Pro-Proof. A full fat, dynamic Filter, which offends and provides grip, which keeps you warm and whistles like teapot on steam oven. Which still knows about the truth behind over-modulation.

Obvious: if desired, you can also use Minimax ASB as a hyper-spiffy Controllerbox for your Rompler. And stay right track with your Porsche. We recommend: Power up and down with the wallpaper!

Three Oscillators, one Mixer, which also releases white and pink noise if required, one Filter, two ADS-envelopes, Oscillator- and Filter-FM, Feedback (if it has to be a tick more nasty from time to time) – this is the essence of what made the MinimoogTM becoming a Synthesizer All-Time Classic. So is the Minimax ASB: Clone is Clone is Clone.

It should be a public secret, that such apparently spartanic setting couldn’t prevent concert halls being transformed into a sea of sparkles. But Minimax ASB even goes beyond. You will i.e find Velocity-Controls for Filter and VCA, 128 fat Presets and as many memory space for your own creations.

And of course – Effects. Chorus, Flanger, Delay – anything you might need life on stage.

But OK: Since 1970 times didn’t stay the same. Aftertouch-Control of Filter-Cutoff and Volume? Thanks to the Remote-Software not an issue. And the Audio Input? Can be utilized as emergency room for your floppy Rompler.

All because of the Sound – it’s that what’s most important. Strip Lacquer? Bark trees? De-frost the Baikal Sea? Try it with the Minimax. It could work out.

Where MinimoogTM-Sounds come out, there must be a MinimoogTM inside, isn’t it? Unfortunately this is not the case. Or better to say: luckily? Within every Minimax ASB a digital heart is beating. In the following some specifications:

The MinimoogTM has been an Instrument for thoroughbred musicians. Everything was exactly in place, where it belongs to. Prepared to start playing ASAP and without having to browse phonebook like manuals, expressive and inspired. Minimax ASB walks the same avenue. Who ever had the chance to get a hold on any „analog synth“ model, will feel like coming home with the Minimax. In the end the original made by Moog has been the role model for all later Synthesizers.

But the clock is steadily ticking straight forward. That’s why Minimax ASB provides various functions, which were not known to the MinimoogTM at that time: Keystroke dynamics, Effects

The Minimax has been the first ASB-Instrument, which was released by CreamWare. Why? Because the MinimoogTM was the first Synthesizer, that wrote himself to the history book of „electronic“ music with golden ink and bold letters. Although its creator Dr. Robert Moog first didn’t expect the Mini-Version of his „Telephone cabinets“ would once enroll the music scene up to its fringes. And that the sound until today saw-toothes, blips and snaps from any loudspeaker in the whole world. No doubt: The MinimoogTM is and will stay being the reference. Nevertheless: in 1981 the last unit was carried out of the factory hall, as production became too expensive then.

But until today the instrument is still worth getting teary-eyed and receiving exorbitant prices on second-hand sales. So what makes the sound of the MinimoogTM – and so the Minimax’s – that unique? Perhaps this is due to the fact, that Bob Moog didn’t think like a typical engineer, when he once soldered the first prototype of this instrument, which caught the ambitions of fan generations sine. For example the Filter: the famous Cascaded Filter of the MinimoogTM does anything else, but grinding incoming signals analytically correct. It’s the opposite: it stomps the sound until it mashes, it compresses and whirls the phase around, it over-modulates, deep-fries the sound and puts hot mustard on top – or in short: the Filter puts sound thru the hoops angrily. But even if engineers threw their hands up in horror, this is exactly what makes musicians burn. The Minimoog-Filter always sounds different. Not only warm, but same time vital, soft and brute, dragging and cuddly. And sometimes all of it in parallel.

To rebuild this behavior the digital way, is difficult. Very difficult. Creamware succeeded by using their SCOPE-Platform regardless – publicly acknowledged. Nevertheless something was missing so far: Knobs. And the feeling to have an instrument beneath your fingertips – and not just a Computer. But that’s history now.

Don’t panic: the MinimoogTM will live forever! Well, it will become more rare and thus also more expensiveive. But with the Minimax ASB this is only a plea. The Original now received reinforcement.