Hello all..
I have sucessfully updated my Voyager to the new operating system and it seems to work very well.
However, now when I first start up the unit, it plays a strange little S&H type sound for a few seconds.
Very odd indeed!
I tried everything… diconnecting the MIDI cords, changing the presets before restarting, making sure the mod wheels and amounts were down…etc, etc.
After the weird little startup, it plays great like always!
HELP!!!
Thanks,
Jay
Mine does that too. Nothing to worry about I hope.
Did your problem begin after the 3.4 upgrade mark?
I think its just a charachteristic of the Oscillators getting a power surge through them. (Granted im not an Engineer) The theremin does the same thing, you can tell with that that the the area around the antenna will get huge and then small as the power dies down.
Both of the Voyagers that I had did this and I think its just totally normal and part of the Analog experience.
SOmeone more wualified can verify or shoot down my thwory about the power though.
Eric
Unfortunately the RME is a new acquisition and one of the first things I did was update the OS, so I can’t say for certain if the unit exhibited that behavior prior to the upgrade.
It’s mildly disconcerting when it happens and my old keyboard Voyager didn’t do it.
Maybe one of the kind folks at Moog Music can weigh in on this one???
Jay
My Voyager Electric Blue does this too, but only since upgrading to OS 3.4. It seems to play normally afterwards.
Any response from Moog Music would be appreciated.
Thanks
Hi!
Sorry for this noise - it’s difficult to get the problem on my prototype.
Please take a little time and check out a beta of the boot version:
http://www.moogmusic.de/bank_B_340.syx
Maybe that will fix your problems.
Have fun,
Rudi
Looks like it is the same with my Voyager: a strange starup sound, short one, if [color=darkred]NOISE[/color] is [color=darkred]ON[/color] and it’s volume is at MAX - try it.
This was with 3.3 before I upgrade to 3.4, and still persisit now.
Voyager Startup Sound?
Looks loke it is the same my Voyager have: a strange starup sound, short one, if NOISE is ON and it’s volume is at MAX - try it.
This was with 3.3 before I upgrade to 3.4, and still persisit now.
Voyager Startup Sound?
Igor
Voyager EB/VX-351/CP-251/all Mooogerfoogers/OSX 10.5/Logic Pro
Yes! Once I applied Rudi’s Bank B, “beta of the boot version” from this thread above, the startup sound disappeared!
Thanks a lot, Rudy
Yes, how about that. No more noise!
Also, had to send “Bank D” from the 3.4 update to finish it off.
Ah, Rudi is “Da Man.”
By the way Rudi, thanks for the new OS. I’m especially enjoying the “Touch Surface LFO S+H feature.”
Way cool.
Again, thanks for the fix.
Jay
Rudi, is your beta good for the RME also? Thanks!
Yes, only the boot version (bank B) is the same.
Have fun,
Rudi
Thanks!!!
I have my new RME arriving in about an hour. Can’t wait. 
Congrats!
Hi guys, I have only had my voyager for just over a month but have too just started getting a really strange noise when i turn it on. I have software and boot version 3.4.
The noise sounds like a sort of detuned saw wave with a pitch vibrato on it which lasts for about 2 seconds before a very strange high pitch ‘blip’ noise (completely different waveform sound to the other noise) ends the process.
Is the file that RL suggested in this thread the 3.4 boot version that I currently have anyway?
If i should still download and try this, would i just do it in the normal way that updating the voyager OS is done?
Thanks
Dan
I did not know that the new OS version would change this behavior;
in any case it is competely normal for most Voyagers to do this;
the sound is heard after power is applied to the analogue board but before the digital board is booted up and sending “real” control voltages to the analog board. So, the sound you hear is whatever the analog circuits are doing in the time between when they get power, and when the synth is fully booted and ready for normal playing. The sound is a little different on each Voyager. I kind of like it, myself; it’s part of the character of each instrument.
Cheers,
Amos
Ah thanks Amos, that’s good to hear. It is actually a very interesting sound haha. Maybe I should sample it and incorporate it into a tune 
I boot up my LP with the reverb cranked on my amp…it sounds like a plane is about to land. 