Coming from Moog, you can expect the Moog Minimoog Voyager to sound brilliant but Moog have managed to make it look brilliant too. The Moog Minimoog Voyager Performer Edition with Blue Wheel has been made so that you never have to buy another synth in your life. It is a wholly analogue synthesizer that has been built with the performing musician in mind. It has just about all of the functionality of the original Minimoog from way back in the seventies but has been updated with newer functions so that it sits well in this century.

This synth is used by a whole manor of famous musicians throughout the world as Moog is a name you can trust.

It is a monophonic synth but you can send polyphonic MIDI messages on notes 53 - 96 and is jam packed with functionality and sounds. It also has a 3D touch surface and MIDI IN, OUT and THRU.

The processing it has are substantial comprising of 3 three oscillators, two envelope generators, VCA, modulation and an LFO amongst others. It also has a mixer enabling you to combine sounds before applying filters and making other adjustments if you wish.

Many people regard this synth as the best that has ever existed. It is made from a gorgeous, sturdy wood and the quality of the responsive, weighted keys let your hand glide over them effortlessly.

The unit allows you to play all sorts of sounds from bass, stringed sounds and spacey effects to everything in between and more.

In order to get the most out of this synth, you would be better to know a thing or two about synthesis and it is certainly a difficult instrument to contend with if you have never used an analogue synth before. However, if you are not new to these kinds of instruments, then the workflow is pretty intuitive.

When you sit down and start playing this synth, you completely lose track of time, probably due to feeling as if you are a part of musical history.

It is a little bit expensive but the people who know all about Moog quality know that you also get what you pay for.

This Moog Minimoog Voyager takes you on a journey through time and, if you want the original Moog analogue sound, want the technology to produce absolutely brilliant sonic scapes on a machine that just begs you to be more daring, and you can afford it, then the Moog Minimoog Voyager is for you.