I’m in between apartments at the moment and right now on 11-day trip with my students so I can’t try my ideas out but really would enjoy planning and thinking about the possibilities of having the Voyager and Moogerfoogers making parallell sounds. What I mean by that, though you probably get it right away, is that I’d like to have the Voyager playing a bassline and having the foogers “slaved” to what I play on the Voyager, but soundwise not locked to the Voyagers settings.
One way to achieve this would be using CV out from the Voyager (will be getting a VX-351 soon so please use those options when suggesting patches) and use the freqbox as a single oscillator. However it might not be that interesting sonically with only a freqbox and filter. Maybe it could get a little richer if modulating the waveforms and FM amount?
Another way would be to hard sync it to the Voyagers output, though I suspect that when I tweak the Voyagers parametres the freqbox won’t track that musically all the time.
And what use could I have with the CP-251? As an audio mixer, or splitting signals?
I welcome all sorts of solutions. Very much appreciated if you’d just take a minute and throw me some ideas to think about. I miss my Voyager and the foogers very much so I would love to just ponder about and imagine the possibilities I have to make sounds with them.
What you describe (pondering) is actually a viable way of designing patches and learning your instrument. Sometimes the time you spend away from your instrument is just as valuable as practice (but not a substitute)
What I learned is that the the CP and 107 is a partial voice/modulation buss.
When I first began recording back in 1996 I only had a 4-track. So this taught me over the years to make a habit out of condensing everything down to as few tracks as possible. So before I had a lot of my synth gear, I applied this philosophy to other things.
For example, if I was playing the theremin, I could run the audio thru the 107 and have a foot controller turn the mix towards a wetter signal. So during a theremin part I could use the mix knob as a fader to bring up the 107’s audio in the background, which was being modulated by the sample and hold on the cp yet only taking up one channel on the mixer (because I had no VCA’s at the time and you can’t exactly mess with the mixer during a theremin performance). This pseudo-voice is what I’m referring to here. You can do something like this with the 107 in the Voyager’s audio input.
Except you have a 104 and other foogers to add to this.
So really, what you need to think about is going modular to get some VCA’s and some Envelope Generators to finish off that Fooger synth. Or wait and see what Moog is going to do with this “minifooger” concept (lets hope it isn’t software).
Getting home tomorrow and when my girlfriend goes off to work on sunday afternoon I’ll get all Moogs connected and try it out. If anyone’s interestes I might record some samples. Anything I should try out that anyone would find interesting?