Moog's marketing dept. has some impressive video's and am glad at least two USA synth makers, DSI and Moog, continue to manufacter within our country, but then there's price for that and the realized higher quality machines. The Sub-Phatty does have some impressive capabilities but if you are going to cut costs by placing a 2 1/2 octave octave keyboard on a machine that you have to press a couple of switches every time you want to switch octaves--it seems not all that intuitive to me in the flow of we musician-minded folk. Yes, the Minotaur, I agree did not catch my interest either. The Korg Mini-MS20 keys are made custom FOR it and if you look at them closely on Korg's product page here:
http://www.korg.com/MS20mini They are such that for a monosynth player's fingering techniques, to acommodate them. Read the specifications as well as they are exact spec's as original from 1970's and you will see in a flash video the designers are same engineers that made original as well. I loook back and see how Korg was testing the waters for analog by the different models of monotrons they had released AND they have a few VST releases of their vintage analog synths to include an iMS20 App. I personally have not jumped on the iPad wagon. The closest to it is a Barnes and Noble Nook Color Reader which originally got primarily to read the plethora of pdf manuals and such of the synths I have because it's beyond me how so many people selling synths on ebay do not have the paper manual! Perhaps I am a bit more retentive that others but it's just as important as the power supply if you ask me!
Anyway, I actually like the no modern digital menus on MS20, just 86% of it's original size and when you see the product page and pic side by side, it's not entirely a big difference. The majority of the cut down size is actually from the original had ALL 1/4 patch bays and on this one all 1/8 inch and since they will be providing 10 patch cables, power, original manual and programming charts while not changing a thing with the sound, keeping true to original--have not been this excited about new synth release in while as it will truely augment DSI MonoEvolverKeyboard.
You are right about the new DSI Prophet 12--way out of most people's price range and am wondering for a small company, if they are planning to soon drop the former flagship, the Poly Evolver Keyboard? The MonoEvolverKeyboard was officially discontinued June 2012. They still sell ALOT of the desktop evolver but man, once you use the MEK interface rather than the admitedly intuitive, once you get used to the grid, once you realize how many parameters you can access immediately/same time and tweak on a very knobby surface, there's no looking back. I have no doubt they will sell alot of them, definitely not to me.
May I assume Access brought nothing new to NAMM? I love my Virus but have been thinking that don't you think it may be time for Access to produce a totally different product, rather than continue same product line improved? Playing devil's advocate with what I just wrote; Moog has been producing analog monosynths mainly for most part for 50 years??!!