i love my voyager RME but sometimes (very often) i find myself wishing it had polyphony. I know you can chain multiple voyagers together but that is financial crazy talk and i can think of plenty of other things i would rather spend my cash on.
then i wondered if i could just use Gmedia’s ‘pretty nice’ Minimonster plugin to provide the backup notes (I know its not exactly a voyager but it can do some similar sounds). My hope is that having one note coming from the hardware combined with the hands on control it gives should bring the sound of the minimonster alive. Maybe i could even feed the software output through the hardware filters?
anyone experimented with anything like this? i might start working on a max patch that will get everything nicely synced up and controllable from the hardware voyager if there isn’t already something like this in existence. Ive already got a note allocation algorithm done that will split chords between the hardware and the software.
interested in peoples thoughts.
have a nice day
-Dan
ps. actually, that reminds me, has anyone ever worked with sending/receiving the voyagers NRPN paramaters using max? finding it very hard to find information on this.
Controlling a software synth with the voyager is a great idea! One of those ideas which make me wonder, why i didn’t have it earlier!
Feeding the polyphonic output through an analog filter will sound different, because kb follow will not work and of course you have only one filter for all notes instead of having one filter for each note.
Yes, I’ve done this, though I haven’t recorded with it so I haven’t got any demo pieces.
It’s very effective. I used the Arturia MMV, and also experimented a bit with other software.
I found the best way to do this was to create `half patches’ - patches on each instrument that complement patches on the other although they may not be much on their own.
Some complete patches on each intrument worked well together, but if you tailor the patches exactly you may find half patches better - small, maybe high tones that give different attack transients from one instrument while the other instrument provides the rest of the tone, for example.
Routing the software through the Voyager’s filter was less succesful than I expected. But having Voyager controls also MIDI controlling the software is worthwhile.
PS remember to make sure the tuning is the same on both instruments.