I’m buying a Voyager and want to know if the Performer model is the right one. Can you connect 2 together to get increased polyphony? Is this possible only with the RME version? Or not at all possible?
The performer is sufficient, and polyphony is possible, but it’s not quite as seamless as you would think it should be.
I don’t think you need to worry too much about what model to get. As far as I know, functionality is identical across all models except the Old School, which just has less than the others. As far as polyphony goes, I’ve never tried it. Don’t have money or reason to buy multiple Voyagers.
Thanks guys. I don’t have the money for more than one. But perhaps one day I will, so that’s the reason for asking - don’t want to buy first Voyager and find it can’t be ganged for 2 voice polyphony for example. The RME is the only unit that is advertised as being capable of linked up in this way.
How does on do this anyway, even if it’s not simple. Nothing much is all that simple in any case so that’s not in itself a deterrent.
In theory you can connect 16 Voyagers together by assigning each subsequent voyager to midi channels 2-16.
This hasn’t come up in awhile, but lets say you took your Voyager to the store where another performer edition was setup. You would take your voyager and it would be midi channel 1. The second voyager you would have to turn the local control off (disabling the keyboard) and assign that voyager to midi channel 2. Then you might have to change Voyager 2 to high note priority. I’m not sure exactly how to hook the Midi cables up (using thru or not).
If this is something you were interested in doing, you might want to get an XL for the bigger keyboard.
The Voyager’s keyboard is polyphonic via midi. One thing that is cool about turning the local control off is that you can have a software sequencer control the Synth engine, and you can use the Voyager’s keyboard to play another synthesizer via midi or to play your other software. I have done this before using the Keyboard to control the Taurus while I had software controlling the Voyager. It’s neat.
The problem is if your thumb is voice one and your index finger is voice two and so forth, if you happen to not play the keys in that order, then the voices can get confused. It’s not seamless like it would be on a regular polyphonic synth. I don’t think very many people have actually set this up, and there’s only one person on this forum that has actually done that (one Voyager and 2 RMEs). He would have to chime in on how seamless it really is.
I think the traditional way has been to overdub monophonic synths.
Eric