hey, i just received my new voyager and i noticed that the frequency knobs for VCO 2 and 3 do not match the faceplate markings at all. The face plate and a notch for +5 and +7, but both of my VCOs aren’t tuned to +5 till you turn them up to the +6 mark.
Is this normal?
All my presets sound correct, it’s just to knob placement. is it possible the knobs are not calibrated?
This is completely normal. The analog oscillators are calibrated such that when the digital display reads zero for the osc 2 or 3 frequency, the oscillators are in unison; this means that all the presets will be in tune. However, there would need to be an additional analog calibration of the panel knobs to calibrate their physical position to match the panel markings; without calibration they can be off by just a bit as you have noticed. Just tune the oscillators by ear or by the parameter display on the LCD and use the panel markings as a reference. Since the Voyager has patch memory, you don’t have to rely on lining up the knobs with a certain tick mark to recall a certain sound you like, as in the old days… just dial it in how you like it and save!
Crazy, I was just noticing this the other day when trying to dial in some sounds from a patch book. I don’t think I would have noticed, but while making waveform adjustments on osc 1 and 2…I was watching the numbers on the lcd screen, as I wanted the same setting on both oscillators. When I looked down at the waveform knobs, I saw that they were not at the same positions. I tried to see if the envelopes (or envelope settings I should say) acted the same way, and they sure did.
I assumed that this was just the nature of the beast on digitally controlled analog synths, but am relieved to read this now!
mine are off too.
the read out on the screen is out too.
tuning by ear (no beats) osc 2 is in unison at -1 on the LCD, and osc3 is in unison at -3.
these offsets stay consistent up and down the scale in the positive and negative directions,
eg +7 semitones on osc3 reads +120 on the LCD, whereas -7 reads -123
(an offset of -3)