It comes with over 6000 factory patches (including many from Rick Wakeman). All original features including 3 oscillators and the famous 4-pole, 24dB/octave filter. Additional LFO & ADSR for modulation of almost every parameter making it the most programmable one yet.

Price : 29,00 Euro
More Info @:
https://vstbuzz.com/deals/76-off-minimonsta-by-gforce-software/

 

Specs:

PC: Minimonsta is a 32/64 bit virtual instrument in the following formats:

• Standalone
• VST
• Notice that there is NO AAX

The minimum system requirements are as follows:

• Intel Pentium IV 1GHz with 1GB RAM
• Windows XP SP2

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Mac: Minimonsta is a virtual instrument in the following formats:

• Standalone Application
• AudioUnit
• AAX
• VST

The Minimum System Requirements are as follows:

• Intel Mac
• Apple Silicon Mac via Rosetta2
• macOS 10.7 – 10.15 & macOS 12 (Monterey)*

*Minimonsta DOES NOT WORK with macOS 11 (Big Sur).

 

Hello Olymoon , am I doing something wrong ? please explain it to me so I can improve it .

 

Yup, it's super dated, I wonder what's going on with this developper (weren't they in collab with OhmForce who kicked the bucket last year?).
The VST isn't that bad, there's this multi-patch feature that's interesting iirc. For the same price, you could get Cherry Audio stuff though.

 

I use both. And I like both.
The fact that Minimonsta is dated (like Oddity2, ImpOscar2 and VSM) doesn't trouble me.

Minimonsta can make many things that Miniverse (Cherry Audio) can't do, for example the morphing with up to 12 patches, or the use of a second LFO, or the use of a second ADSR (and with many destinations) or the use of the plugin as plugin effect in the bus.

And Miniverse has its qualities too. It offers also a quasi-perfect (an emulation is NEVER perfect) emulation of the Minimoog, with simply the polyphony added.

If I had had to choose only one I would have chosen Minimonsta. Both are cheap priced (I bought Minimonsta several years ago the same price) so I have taken both. And I like both and I use both.

It's also funny this propensity I often see to criticize a plugin "competitor" of the one you have, when both can be as good as each other. And then... why would a plugin whose first version is 10 or 12 years old be less good and less usable than a plugin whose first version is just released? Especially when the so called "old" plugin has still undergone updates and evolutions making it no older than if it had just been released? Do we criticize Kontakt (which dates from 2002) because it is "old"? Do we criticize "Massive" (from 2006) because it is old? Do we criticize Diva and Zebra because they are old? Do we criticize Sylenth1 (also from 2006) because it is old?

The last update of Minimonsta for OSX was on November, 19, 2019... Is it so old? And it's been a long time that all the reported bugs have been fixed, making this plugin superstable without any need to touch it again. The compatibility with Windows 11 remains perfect. What more could we ask for? New features? With the risk to create incompatibilities with some of the 6.000 presets? Are you serious? A Minimoog emulation is not a kind of synth which needs to get new features and new features again for years, it would become progressively something totally different than what was its purpose. The number of incredible features added to the original Minimoog in this emulation is already a huge number.

 

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To make things clear about AAX, I have relaunched the installation file of my Minimonsta (current version), to watch the first panels. Here are exactly what are the compatibilities on PC:

 

Thank You Blackwinny

 

Your threads are very welcome and I started a conversation with you, so we can speak about it.

Yes, it sounds really great.
And it have this impressive function:

 

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@BlackWinny Fair enough. I guess I'll give Minimonsta another run later (I got mine for free with Novation, both my Novation products are screwed because of faulty USB plugs, but you still get freebies every few months, sad waste of plastic, but that's nice).

On a side note, I tried many Minimoog emulation and I noticed the big thing that set them apart is the feedback feature. I never used the real thing, but the only VA that gave me a satisfying sound using feedback was the Monark, the worst one is Arturia's (even though this is the one I use the most). Minimonsta's feedback si slightly more interesting than Arturia's, but still meh.

 

VSTi's like this and Absynth which are old and have made back their development cost should be freeware now

 

I agree, specially once their development is obviously abandoned by developers.

Because of this offer, I tried it again, and there are too many downsides appart of the formats ( no AAX, no vst3) The GUI is really too small even for a basic HD definition 1920 x 1080. This alone makes it unusable in any actual configuration.
So charging 30$ for it is not logical.

 

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In the past, it was still about the company's reputation and happy users. The computer was new and everyone was euphoric about it. There were even multilingual manuals made of paper and there was even a nice box in shipping. This was for example Arturia - Prophet V and Cakewalk - zeta+. Arturia even had a plastic loyalty card included.

Everything has been rationalized away to save costs and maximize profits. Today the product is only available for download and the manual is only available as a PDF for download. Native Instruments looks at the sales figures and if a product is no longer purchased frequently enough and the costs exceed the profits, it is no longer profitable and the product is discontinued.

I wanted to make a soundbank for the Snythepolis - nrgA - 32 bit from 2006. for years, but the sliders are unreadable, then one night had the idea to change the resolution, I changed the resolution of my computer from 3830 x 2160 to 2560 x 1440, so every time a preset was ready I changed it back. Pretty annoying but the soundset is done and I now play my presets on the tiny version.

 

I love GeForce plugins. I use Imposcar 2 very often - it has a sound that no other soft synth can give me. Unique character, full, rich, the sound does not age. Luckily - Imposcar 2 offers resizing of GUI, which makes it very capable even on my 2K monitor. Unfortunately, that is not the case with Minimonsta. Whic is also a remarkable plugin - one of the best variations of Minimoog that exists. Hopefully they will at least update GUI for modern displays, besides that it still very capable synth.

 

Believe it or not, that's what Reason users had to deal with until very recently. I got Reason 11 Intro when it got released, it was a good deal (their stock plugins/libraries are awesome), but you couldn't resize the GUI at all, it was worse than Minimonsta, it genuinely hurt the eyes to try to read the values, a chore to use. My solution was to change the screen resolution of my OS for my production session account. Reason finally dealt with the GUI resolution... but they left Intro users behind, so basically I've been using a cracked Reason 12 since then.

 

That's what happen when you don't respect your clients.
Developers complain about cracks but we as clients have no legal protection in a case like the one you describe.
And getting back to Minimonsta, as you can see, I added the specs from dev's site. Do you see any info about screen resolution? Nothing. Anyone could buy this and discover later that it's unusable in his configuration... And again, no legal protection for consumer...

 

possible shoot off thread: what developer are you loyal to? I'm loyal only to Reaper, but I'm a slave to ASIO.

 

vst3 ?

 

Nope.