In modern dollars, it would have cost over $8,000. Its average retail price sat just under $1,600. Just like its older, more intimidating cousins, the Minimoog was expensive. Musicians of the day, itching for new ideas but lacking technological expertise, embraced the easy-to-program, organ-like Minimoog. While there had been other synthesizers before it, they were massive, cumbersome, and complicated. The Minimoog was the first commercially available keyboard synthesizer. By: Frankie Stein Behringer’s leading a Synth Revolution, but at what cost?īehringer’s Leading a Synth Revolution, but at What Cost? Uli Behringer’s barely legal assault on the pricey world of analogue synthesizers, In 1970, only months after Woodstock solidified the footprint of the 1960s’ musical counterculture, physicist Robert Moog made his own mark on the world of music–the Minimoog Model D.
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