Nick Culbertson is back, with an attempt at recreating the “world’s most iconic” analogue synth using a Teensy 4.1.

If you haven’t guessed yet, we’re talking about the Bob Moog’s 1970 Minimoog Model D — the “world’s first” portable synthesizer, which could be played easily and instantly with no complex patches to deal with. You may recall Nick, aka Mob Pixel on YouTube, from the Teensy 4.0-powered “world’s smallest MIDI controller,”

In his video, Nick walks through the fundamental concepts of subtractive synthesis, highlighting oscillators, filters, envelopes, and more, and how they relate to his Teensy implementation of the original Minimoog. The resulting instrument is a six-voice polyphonic synth with three oscillators per voice and six waveforms per oscillator, a 24dB Moog-style ladder filter with ADSR envelopes, and independent LFO with pitch/filter/amp targets, and power, MIDI data and audio all flowing over Teensy USB. Twenty rotary encoders and a 16×2 LCD provide hands-on control.

Code, bill of materials, pinouts and more can be found in the project’s GitHub repo, and a detailed walk-through can be enjoyed in the video below.