Editing Minimoog (section)

== Release ==
Moog Co released the first Minimoog in 1970.<ref>{{cite web |last1=MoogMusic |title=The Minimoog Model D in Full Production |url=https://www.moogmusic.com/news/minimoog-model-d-full-production |website=MoogMusic.com |publisher=Moog Music |access-date=22 March 2021}}</ref><ref name=Pinch>{{cite book |last1=Pinch |first1=Trevor |last2=Trocco |first2=Frank |title=Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer |date=2002 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, MA |isbn=0-674-01617-3 |page=232 |edition=First}}</ref>{{rp|232}} Moog said it was conceived as a portable tool for session musicians, and the team expected to sell "maybe 100 of them".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/may/23/robert-moog-interview-google-doodle|title=Robert Moog: 'I wouldn't call this music' – a classic interview to mark a Google doodle|date=2012-05-23|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-11-28}}</ref>  Moog became acquainted with former evangelist and musician David Van Koevering, who was so impressed with the Minimoog that he began demonstrating it to musicians and music stores. Van Koevering's friend [[Glen Bell]], founder of the restaurant chain [[Taco Bell]], allowed him to use a building on a private island Bell owned in Florida. There, Van Koevering hosted an event he billed as Island of Electronicus, a "pseudo-psychedelic experience that brought [[counterculture]] (minus the drugs) to straight families and connected it with the sound of the Minimoog".<ref name="Red Bull"/> 

The Minimoog was the first synthesizer sold in retail stores.<ref name=Pinch/>{{rp|214}} Despite the success, the company could not afford to meet demand, nor had credit for a loan, and in November 1971 Moog sold R. A. Moog, Inc. to rival company muSonics and stayed on as an employee until 1976.<ref name="Red Bull"/> Van Koevering was hired as head of sales and marketing, expanding the sales of the Minimoog worldwide.<ref name="Pinch" />{{rp|238–255}} The Minimoog was in continuous production for 13 years and over 12,000 were made.<ref name=Pinch/>{{rp|215,317}} Production of the Minimoog stopped in July 1981. In 1993, Moog Co ceased all production.<ref name="Wired"/>

=== Later models ===
In the 1980s, the rights to use the Moog Music name in the United Kingdom were purchased by Alex Winter of Caerphilly, Wales, who commenced limited production of an updated Minimoog in 1998 as the '''Moog Minimoog 204E'''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/moog-minimoog-204e|title=Moog Minimoog 204E|website=Soundonsound.com|access-date=22 April 2021}}</ref> The 204E added [[Pulse-width modulation|pulse width modulation]] and [[MIDI]] to the Model D specification.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Voyager By Bob Moog|url=https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/voyager-by-bob-moog|access-date=22 April 2021|website=Soundonsound.com}}</ref>[[File:Minimoog 1979 left 2017 right.jpg|thumb|Minimoog from 1979 (left) and 2017]]
In 2002, Robert Moog reacquired the rights to the Moog name and bought the company. In 2002, Moog Co released the [[Minimoog Voyager]], an updated version of the Minimoog that sold more than 14,000 units, more than the original Minimoog.<ref name="Wired" /> Although the Welsh incarnation of Moog Music went into administration shortly afterwards, Winter retained the rights to the Moog name in the UK, with the result that the [[Minimoog Voyager]] was launched there as the '''Voyager by Bob Moog'''.<ref name=":0" />

In 2016, Moog Music began manufacturing an updated version of the Model D, with an independent LFO and MIDI, and an aftertouch and velocity-sensitive keyboard.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/moog-minimoog-model-d|title=Moog Minimoog Model D|website=Soundonsound.com|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-11-28}}</ref> Production ended around August 2017, after a little under a year.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.musicradar.com/news/moog-is-ending-production-of-the-minimoog-model-d|title=Moog is ending production of the Minimoog Model D|work=MusicRadar|access-date=2018-11-28|language=EN-GB}}</ref> In 2018, Moog Music released the Minimoog Model D app for [[iOS]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.factmag.com/2018/03/26/moog-minimoog-model-d-ios-app/|title=Moog turns its iconic Minimoog Model D synth into a fully-featured iOS app|date=2018-03-26|work=FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music.|access-date=2018-11-30|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2022, after being out of production for over five years, the Model D was reissued a third time. The basic architecture remained the same as the previous version, but also included new features like a spring-loaded pitch-bend wheel and updates to the previous unit's MIDI specs.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.musicradar.com/news/moog-minimoog-model-d-2022 | title=The iconic Moog Minimoog Model D synth is back in production and looking better than ever | date=17 November 2022 }}</ref>