Hey,
you know, after owning my Voyager for almost a year now, I’ve decided to switch OUT of preset mode and venture off into the wilderness! I’m surprised I haven’t done so sooner. anyways, now that that is settled, the SCREEN still displays he name(s) of the various presets.
I think it would be AWESOME (!!!) for Moog to create a sort of unique little animated screensaver type thing or just maybe a view of planets in the cosmos or something to take the place of the no longer used presets. It would be activated when the user selects the option to go ‘no presets’…
But why not show some scrolling protions of the shematics of the Voyager (or the Minimoog)? I think the often used connection from synthesizer with astronomie and Si-Fi a bit boring after about 35 years.
Maybe Moog should sell those “screen savers” for money in an online shop. Just like the mobile phone ones
How about removing the touchpad, shift the filters and envelopes towards the left and then place two moogerfoogers at the right? Like the delay and the phaser.
Um… to the fella who doesn’t like the touchpad (what???), I think its a FANTASTIC feature of the voyager! Wouldn’t do without it!!!
I would suggest buying the RME and a couple Foogers, and BAM!
You can be happy!!!
Anyway, I think whatever is on that screen should be ultra simple, perhaps even kitchy, but something “cool” like a Starship Voyager (not the one from Star Trek) or a waveform image… or twinkling stars, or just go all black, SOMETHING!! Having the patch name still there ever so slighty gets in the way of zoning out completely.
Plus its a nice way to “culturally” adorn the keyboard for those of us who care not for patch saving, or escaping to such out of our frustrations, boredoms… (I’m guilty, too)…
My train of thought is like, “Ok, you like to save patches, etc. cool, here you go, and here are the numeric values for the pots. And for you other kids, here’s a cool little image (maybe just the MOOG logo??) to help the sonic situation or simply the experience feel a bit more complete rather than being some “other” activity outside of digitizing patch-works.”
Minor an issue as it is, it IS a loop-hole in the design. (not to criticize at all though… I totally appreciate the sophistication of design, planning, and hard work that went into designing this very very fine and unique instrument)
Or a way of ‘seeing’ all the front panel settings as an iconic reference in the LCD. Which could give you a visual ‘snapshot’ of what your sound, sounds like.
How about when you power on the Voya, a little picture of Leonard Nimoy pops up on the screen and says “space, the final frontier…these are the voyages of the starship voyager, to boldly go where no man or Moog has gone before.” Obviously as these words are being uttered the opening theme from Star Trek is playing…on the AE the backlight panel flashes like you’re ready for takeoff!
Mice TV . . yes . . I saw it like 2 rows of vertical bars . . no bar represents minimum setting . . full bar represents maximum setting . . I reckon you could get all the important settings in . . it’s just a visual as you would refer back to the pot values as you edit.
