This just happened. My Voyager, which is about 8 months old, just started producing a sound with no keys pressed. I’ve unplugged everything except the headphones. I’ve reset to factory. I’ve unplugged and let it sit. Turn it back on and there is the tone. Now it just plays a tone based on the last key pressed. No matter what sound I dial up, I’m getting this. Including when I init parameters to the base Moog sound. Did this thing just go south on me? No amount of knob twisting is helping here.
Check the setting on your ENV.GATE switch (next to the HEADPHONES jack). From your description, it sounds like it’s set to ‘ON/EXTERNAL’ instead of ‘KEYBOARD’.
‘ON/EXTERNAL’ allows the Voyager to sound continuously. Nice for drones where you don’t necessarily want to keep your hands on the keys, or if you are processing external sounds.
‘KEYBOARD’ sets the Voyager to sound only when a key is pressed, i.e. normal operation.
It is set to keyboard. The tone that is generated is actually not as strong. When I press a key or set to On/Ext, I get a full tone. When it’s set to keyboard and I’m not pressing a key, the volume is a bit lower. One other note, I did add a VX351/CP251 about two weeks ago, but it has been playing fine over that period if time until just yesterday.
Is doing this on all stored patches ? After checking the position of the keyboard/ env, gate switch, click it to env and back to keyboard even if on. If you still gave a problem after trying that and checking the menus , hope not but there maybe a chance there is a problem with the keyboard control board.
Did you install the terminator that should have come with the VX-351? Maybe Moog engineering has changed it, but originally the VX-351 needed to have a terminator strip installed in the Voyager to work properly with the VX. I really doubt that this has anything to do with your issue, but I’ll put it out there anyway, just in case.
Hi MC,
that’s an easy thing… many sequencers are sending a Local Off message after the start. When you switch on your Voyager after the sequencer the Local Control settings of the Voyager stay active.
Have fun,
Rudi
VX351 was working like a charm until this issue started. I do appreciate the help, everyone. I spoke with Moog tech support and after talking about the issue, the possible culprit is the main analog board going bad. So it’s RMA time. Thankfully, it’s under warranty as the board is about a $600 part.
