First of all Im trying to play the Taurus via midi with the Voyager’s keyboard. Only the lowest 5 white keys get any note and they are the highest the Taurus plays.
I noticed that when trying to control the Taurus via the Voyager’s pitch CV, that it tracks accurately but it is harmonizing with the Voyager at perhaps a third or fourth Interval. I haven’t used the CP attenuators to try to see if this will change the Taurus’s note to a C when I hit a C on the Voyager. It sounds fantastic though.
Im also trying to get duophonics with the Voyager via Midi. I searched the forum for instructions but I could not figure it out.
You’ll need to transpose your Voyager to go lower. Keep in mind that I don’t HAVE a Voyager (I have an old school, Old School) so I’m guessing. The Octave knobs for each OSC likely effect the Analog portion of the synth directly and are retained in a patch.
I can tell you that my Little Phatty has Octave keys that I can use to shift the midi notes up/down. So it’s likely buried in the Voyager menus somewhere. The other option is (here it comes) Get your hand on the “MidiMapper” app and let you Mac do the walk’in. You can setup two maps. One that sends the left hand of your Voyager transposed (via MidiMapper) to the Taurs; and the notes from middle C on up (or C# up, your choice) back to the Voyager. With the equiv. of “Local Control” off, you’ll have a true split.
You can also play both so that the sounds are layered and use Mapper as mentioned above to transpose. You can also cutoff the upper range of the notes going to Taurus so that you don’t get the ‘higher’ sounds and instead only get from your lowest F to the 2nd C on your kbd.
I can’t help you with the Pitch CV, haven’t messed with that yet but it would be good to know if you were flat or sharp. If Sharp, the attenuator will work, if flat, you might be able to fix this with a better and short cable (I’ve had issues running Pitch CV). But Voyager to Taurs, there is no reason to not just use Midi unless you like screwing around the the voltages.
Duophonic? Not sure if you are talking about the Phatty to Voyager “Poly Mode” not sure if Taurus supports this.
One thing you should definitely try is look back for either CTRLSHIFT or one of the other frequent posters for a pic of which pots map directly to Taurus for tweaking via Midi CC. I just replaced my Akai MPK25 with a Novation SL mkII 25 and now have 8 sliders, 16 pots, 16 pushbuttons and some pressure sensitive pads just to name one part of one scene. Leverage all you can there then get yourself a nice full size controller with uber knobs and buttons.
You need to download my chart “T3-Voyager.gif: Controlling the T3 from the Voyager front panel”, on KnobTweak.
It has all the info about controlling & playing the T3 from the Voyager.
Thanks Greg, Yeah I saw that when it was first posted but forgot to check it out.
So really, what I would like to see implimented of possible is to hook up the Voyager to the Taurus and have the lowest Taurus note be the lowest key of the Voyager without having to transpose the keyboard ot change how the Voyager reacts to its own key.
Would this be something Voyager specific or specific to whatever controller you might use with the Taurus, meaning is this something that a change in the software could fix or does it come from the controlling end?
I really appreciate everyones comments to me the last few days…I honestly haven’t had much time lately to do anything that I need to do, and the Taurus is beckoning to me all the time to figure it out.
Do you care if the Taurus is played from, say, the first keyboard octave, and then the voyager from the rest, because that would be easy to do with any midi processing program by creating a keyboard split and assinging each instrument different midi channels.
Word up on what Klopfgeist said and as I mentioned above, Eric. Get your hands on MidiPachbay (I’m using 1.0.3(14)) and it works like a champ. Have a look at the pic (the last two maps/patches do the trick… note the transpose).
The only trick is that you’ll need to turn “local control off” on your Voyager so that when you play it does not immediately sound the note, instead it sends Midi events that your Mac interprets and by rules withing the software, sends to Taurus ‘in’ or to your Voyager ‘in’. Job done.