The Bob Moog Foundation is excited to announce its latest fundraising raffle featuring a fully functional Minimoog Voyager XL synthesizer, serial number 0475. This beautiful synthesizer was released in 2010 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the iconic Minimoog Model D. The Minimoog Voyager XL is valued at $7,500. 

 

Raffle tickets are $25 each, 5 for $100, 12 for $200, and 35 for $500.

 

The raffle begins Monday, February 2nd at 7:00 am EST and ends 11:59 pm EST Monday, February 23rd, 2026.

 

The raffle is open internationally. 

 

Please read the rules and regulations HERE before purchasing tickets.

 

All proceeds benefit the projects of the Bob Moog Foundation.

 

 

 

Watch this video featuring progressive synthesist and synthesizer designer Erik Norlander, putting the Voyager XL through its paces:

 

The Minimoog Voyager XL builds on the original Voyager, which was released in 2002, with:

• An expanded 61-note keyboard
• Ribbon controller
• Additional LFO modulation bus
• An extensive front-panel analog patch bay that opens the Voyager up to a more modular approach to creating sounds with more flexibility that any previous Voyager model

Like the original Minimoog Model D released in 1971, if features three wide-range voltage-controlled oscillators, once noise source, two resonant filters, an external audio output, two ASDR envelopes and an LFO.

 

 

Thomas Dolby is an English musician, record producer, composer, and professor. Early in his career, he was a session musician who played a crucial role in Foreigner’s 1981 album 4, contributing signature synthesizer sounds, most famously on “Waiting for a Girl Like You” and “Urgent,” helping propel the album to #1. He also played keyboards and synthesizers for Def Leppard’s iconic 1983 album Pyromania and later collaborated with George Clinton of Parliament-Funkadelic, the Thompson Twins, and many others. Dolby is known for his creative, genre-bending approach to songwriting.

Dolby’s prominence in the early 1980s was fostered by hit singles including “She Blinded Me with Science” (1982) and “Hyperactive” (1984). In the 1990s, Dolby founded Beatnik, a Silicon Valley software company whose technology was used to play internet audio and later ringtones. He was also the music director for TED Conferences from 2001 to 2012. In 2014, he joined the faculty at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where he leads the New Media Program.

“The essence of the Voyager XL is that it’s the best of all worlds. It’s got the modular capability, ribbon bend controller, MIDI, and presets created by some of the foremost synthesists of our time,” noted Dolby. “It’s everything that we liked about the original Minimoog in a modern package.”

 

Funds raised from the raffle will be used to expand the Bob Moog Foundation’s hallmark educational project, Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool, which has inspired over 35,000 elementary school students through the science of sound. The raffle also helps support the Bob Moog Foundation Archives and the Moogseum, an immersive, experiential museum located in Asheville, NC, which brings the science of sound and synthesis alive for people of all ages through Bob Moog’s pioneering legacy. The Moogseum opened in May 2019 and has since welcomed over 50,000 visitors from all over the world. It is still recovering from the long-term financial impact of Hurricane Helene.