Moog • Satellite

A rinky dink version of the Minitmoog for budding synthesists from the early seventies. The Satellite is shaped after the organ-type synthesizers from its era. Although cased in a nice looking wood case the Satellite boasts little features. It's a single-vco monophonic preset synthesizer. Preset sounds include brass, reeds, strings, bell, and the far-out new lunar sound. The 37-note keyboard is slim and presets are selected from the clunky flip-switches just below the keyboard. Left hand performance controls offer modulation, pitch bend and filter sweeps. You won't find much use for a synth like the Satellite these days but it would make a nice collector's item. It has been used by Vangelis.
* Oct down, 2 oct down
* Resonance (slider)
* Cutoff frequency (slider)
* LFO rate and depth (sliders)
* LFO sine/square
* Route LFO to VCO pitch (on square at 100% depth it jumps octaves)
* Route LFO to VCA
* Portamento (slider)
* Portamento on/off
* Add sustain to the VCA (switch)
* The 'presets' give you actually quite usable combinations of VCA env, VCF env, VCF bp/lp, and VCF res/cutoff settings - instead of messing with the ADSR to get those settings you use all the time, you just flip a switch. //
If you spend a bit of time learning how to get the best out of this little guy, you have basically got yourself a ruling little single-VCO Moog! If you have some guitar effects to run it thru, you'll find some extremely evil noises ;-) //