Possible Voyager Issues

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Hey,

Just wanted to run a few things by you all.

There are two things I have noticed on my Voyager that don’t seem right.

  1. The functioning of the FM:
    I realize there is some variance in the functioning of analog instruments,
    but I watched this video below, and it is a tutorial on using FM on the voyager,
    and I tried to match what he is doing, and he turns the pitch of OSC 3 up
    to around the notch for +6 and the fm is back to unison, or an octave up.
    My oscillator 3 never gets up to unison, all the way up to +7 it is just short of getting
    to the level that the syntorial guy is showing in the video below.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmpoM5osl24

2: Aftertouch:
The after touch on the black keys is so stiff that it is basically unusable.
I can engage it using excessive force, but it is extreme, especially
compared to the aftertouch on the white keys.
I have a white Voyager Xl, and I am not sure if mine is in the
range with the less desirable keybed or not. Does anyone know what years or serial number range
the bad keybeds were on?

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About the osc 3’s range, there’s a lo/hi range switch. Could it be a solution for you?

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No, it’s in the hi setting when I am doing this, what I am saying is that it is like a semi tone or two less range,
Vs. what is shown in that video from syntorial.
In the low setting it is obviously an LFO.