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In celebration of Bob Moog’s 90th birthday, the Bob Moog Foundation is excited to announce its fundraising raffle for a brand new Minimoog reissue, signed by Jordan Rudess, Music Radar Magazine’s “Best Keyboardist of All Time."

This Minimoog reissue features a beautifully distinctive Appalachian cherry cabinet. It has been customized with pulse wave modulation modification, and builds upon the revolutionary legacy of the iconic Minimoog. The modification makes it a one-of-a-kind synth. Scroll down to read more about it. 

The Minimoog has serial number MD-01730 and was generously donated by our friends at Moog Music for the raffle. The synthesizer was produced at the Moog Music factory in Asheville, North Carolina, and has an estimated value of $5,000 USD. 

Raffle Details

The raffle begins at 7:00 a.m. (EDT) on May 23, 2024, and ends on June 17, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. (EDT). 

The raffle is open internationally.

No physical tickets will be sent. 

Jordan Ruddess signed the back of the Minimoog, adding "Prepare for a Sonic Adventure!!"

"The Minimoog became an organic friend to me because it's designed in such a way that you can put your hand down on the key, you can turn a knob and things happen, and all the different interactions between the knobs became my world. When I'm playing the Minimoog, I feel this like deep, organic brain-solid connection not only to the way it's designed, but to the way that it sounds. The Minimoog was my first love when it came to synthesizers, but even now, when I have the perspective of playing so many different synths, I still go back to it fifty years later."  -- Jordan Rudess

ABOUT JORDAN RUDESS

As a classical prodigy, Jordan Rudess initiated his studies at the Juilliard School of Music at the age of 9. Fusing classical and rock influences, Rudess has enjoyed a career as the extraordinary keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist for the platinum-selling, GRAMMY Award-winning progressive rock band Dream Theater. Beyond his role in Dream Theater, Rudess has played in Liquid Tension Experiment and has collaborated with Deep Purple, David Bowie, Steven Wilson, and Jan Hammer. As the owner of the highly successful iOS app development company Wizdom Music, Rudess has emerged as a pioneer in state-of-the-art keyboard controllers and music apps. Recently, Rudess has been working on an AI interactive project at MIT’s Media Lab.

THE MINIMOOG REISSUE

Built by hand to last a lifetime, the Minimoog Reissue delivers the revered quality, undefinable feel, and authentic sound of a pristine vintage Moog.  Sounding as vibrant and deep as ever, its legendary low-pass ladder filter, powerful oscillators, and rich saturating mixer retain the exact component placement and through-hole design of a 1970s-era Minimoog Model D.

The Minimoog Model D Reissue, originally released in 2022, includes a series of popular functional modifications that expand this legendary instrument’s sonic capabilities. These modifications include:

• Securely housed in a locally sourced Appalachian cherry cabinet and hand-finished aluminum chassis.
• Dedicated analog LFO with triangle and square waveshapes 
• Premium Fatar keybed with velocity and after pressure available via top panel CV jacks with onboard trimpots
• MIDI integration
• Mixer feedback modification which allows the Minimoog Model D to overdrive and scream with the turn of a knob.
• For the first time in its history, the Minimoog Model D now features a spring-loaded pitch wheel with a center deadband, allowing for improved playability and wild performance flourishes.
• This newest edition also includes updates to the MIDI functionality, allowing for improved modern studio integration.

This modified Minimoog Model D reissue includes additional one-of-a-kind features:

• Two new CV jacks. First, the onboard LFO now has a dedicated output jack. This jack will allow you to interface your Minimoog with external equipment or the new pulse wave modification (PWM) CV input. The PWM input is routed to the pulse wave oscillators 1, 2, and 3. PWM offers new timbres not found on stock Minimoogs. 
• This modification was performed by Moog Music engineer Tim Johnson and is the first Minimoog reissue to receive this modification.

Proceeds from the raffle will support the Bob Moog Foundation’s hallmark educational project, Dr. Bob's SoundSchool, serving almost 3,000 elementary school students a year and poised to grow nationwide; the preservation of the vast and growing Bob Moog Foundation Archives; and the Moogseum in downtown Asheville, NC, which has welcomed over 40,000 visitors from around the world since opening in 2019.

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