Moog minitaur...are they any good for bass?

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

I believe that they are 'bass pedals', but haven't seen any you tube clips with a bass guitar plugged in.
Moog products in general look cool, but are very expensive.
Maybe it's best to use other companies for bass effects,and if I want anything moog , then buy a moog keyboard.

What do you think?

Edited November 25, 2012 by RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE

[jonsmith]

It's not really an effects unit*, it's more like a set of Taurus pedals (as used by the likes of Genesis & Rush) without the actual pedals. To get proper use of them, you need a set of pedals (like the Roland PK5) or a keyboard to give it midi notes to play.

EDIT for accuracy:
*I believe you can run an external input through the filter section though.

Edited November 25, 2012 by jonsmith

[BassBus]

If you have a synth pickup on a bass I'd imagine you could use a Minitaur with a bass. You'd need a midi interface as well most likely.

[WalMan]

Youtube demo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZmeCnf_VyA

Sound on Sound review [url="http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may12/articles/moog-minitaur.htm"]HERE[/url]

As above you will need something like the Roland PK5 bass pedal controller or a MIDI pickup to drive it.

It came out too late for me when I was looking for bass pedals for the prog lot I am with and I got a DSI MoPho from eBay. Similar thing really

[gelfin]

Just read the review on this and I can't see replacing my Taurus 3 pedals. Just seems to much hassle to use.

Taurus 3. Fully contained unit, 54 programmable pre-sets. OK price wise it may be attractive but just not for me.

[urb]

These work pretty well as a cheap-ish and relatively reliable analogue-to-MIDI converter - you can get a signal splitter and run both clean bass and synth at the same time:

http://www.sonuus.com/products_i2m_mp.html

Just a thought - the Taurus sounds pretty amazing - though I think not being able to turn the knobs while playing would be a shame... although I guess you could MIDI-map those too....