Midi cable?

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I have 2 Voyagers (signature) and just wanted to hook them together through MIDI. One of the units receives the MIDI signal, but occasionally gives sound, the other works fine. When I used a master keyboard to check out this problem, the same scenario happened: one was fine (actually almost, sometimes missed a note, especially when I played fast), but the other rarely worked (it received the MIDI signal, because the LED blinked). I tried to use another MIDI cable, and on this later unit the MIDI did not even blink. I suspect, that the quality of the MIDI cable is not high enough, therefore the signal somehow is lost. Can it be the reason, or you guys think it needs to be repaired? Any MIDI cable recommendations?
Both of them have OS 2.1 installed.

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I very much doubt the MIDI cable is the problem. Far more likely to be the way you have your synths set up. Check the Keyboard Mode and make sure it is set to Last Key Pressed on both machines - this should ensure that every key you play produces a note. If you are using a sequencer, make sure the Local Control (Keyboard) is set to OFF, to avoid re-triggering - especially important as the Voyager is monophonic.

Hope some of this is of use. If not, give me some more details as to how you are trying to link your machines and I’ll give it some more thought.

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Thanks for the help. I set the Last Key Pressed in the Keyboard Mode in both machines but it did not solve the problem. However, when I set the “Midi key order not active” on both machines it worked. Interestingly when I set on the slave any other values (1st-16th) it did not work. Frankly I have no idea why I had to do so…
Is there any ways NOT to send cc signals? When I change filter, volume etc. on the "master” the slave changes accordingly. I whish to de-tune the 2 machines but I cannot. Or this feature is not implemented yet?

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Midi key order is for creating a “polyphonic” voyager… slave up to 16 voyagers for a 16 voice synth :slight_smile:. If you wan to play both “layered” on one key turn off the key order. I Midi my two SEs together all the time without any problem. One cool thing you can do is to set for high note priority, the other for low note, when you play one key they both play that pitch, press two keys and the one set for low note plays the lowest note, and the one set for high note the highest.

If you want to do “two note chords” use the midi key order, the second voyager will only respond when you press a second key, but it will only sound when the second key is pressed. Think of it as a organ or piano, you have 61 keys or 88 keys but each key will only sound when you press several keys at once.

Brian

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Thanks for enlightening me, it is working well. Tremendous fun playing on two Moogs simultaneously! I only need 14 more to have a Polymoog….. :stuck_out_tongue:

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No problem :slight_smile:. Have fun. Add three more and have a “MemoryMoog” :slight_smile:.

:slight_smile: Polymoog was fully polyphonic :slight_smile:.

Brfian

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probably not what your after,but couldn’t you detune one machine from another using the “fine tune” knob. i was under the impression that it was not linked to CC .of course you wouldn’t be able to sequence that kind of thing, but its just a thought.