Sustain Pedal

mariusdevries · September 24, 2011, 5:48pm

Just unpacked and set up new Voyager XL as master Midi controller in one of my studios
The packaging contained a lovely Moog footwsitch
Yet I see nowhere to plug in a standard Midi Sustain pedal
Am I missing something? Is there a workaround?

RL1 · September 24, 2011, 6:22pm

Use the gate ENV input for it and have fun,
Rudi

mariusdevries · September 27, 2011, 5:10pm

My gratitude! MdV

psicolor · October 3, 2011, 9:46pm

The voyager is monophonic, why does someone want to use a sustain pedal with it? Or is there a special playing technique which i don’t know yet?

diddi_jo · October 8, 2011, 10:56pm

MIDI master controller will need a pedal at some point.

Just_Me · October 9, 2011, 3:29am

Hold notes while you play the TS and turn knobs is one reason.

psicolor · October 9, 2011, 10:33am

… while the other hand is still free to play on another keyboard. Good idea! I Like it!

drcarver · October 12, 2011, 1:26am

Am I missing something?

I just tried 3 different sustain pedals, and 2 expressions…I can’t get it to work for some reason.

latigid_on · October 12, 2011, 4:01am

I think you’ll need a negative gate, i.e. a normally closed switch (push to break).

P.S. you can drone with the Env. gate rocker, but you probably knew that.

drcarver · October 12, 2011, 2:35pm

^yeah…When I move the rocker to “ext” I get the legato drone, but only when the pedal is pressed. Otherwise, there is no sound.

I suppose it isn’t a huge deal, but about a week after I got my Voyager, I had a session where a sustain pedal really would have come in handy (Playing another keyboard with my left hand, while doing some weird legato runs on the Moog with my right). I felt like a tool for having to ask the engineer to keep going back for me to overdub the Moog part with both hands.

fyvewytches · October 12, 2011, 6:12pm

check the settings in the menu.

psicolor · August 17, 2012, 2:57pm

I like to use the voyager as a master keyboard. So I plugged a sustain pedal into the Env Gate input, turned the env gate to on/external, but the sustain pedal does not seem to change the midi out messages.

RL1 · August 17, 2012, 6:37pm

Hast du nicht die 3.6 Version? Da kannst du jeden beliebigen Controller im MASTER Menue auswählen.
Gruss,
Rudi

thealien666 · August 17, 2012, 7:16pm

For those not speaking German, here’s the French translation:

“N’avez-vous pas la version 3.6 du logiciel ? Puisque vous pouvez utiliser n’importe quel contrôleur dans le menu de sélection MASTER.
Cordialement,
Rudi”

RL1 · August 17, 2012, 7:49pm

Sorry, this was more a private message - the next time I will try to send it in Turkish

psicolor · August 17, 2012, 7:55pm

Nee, ich hab noch die 3.5.
3.6 finde ich irgendwie nicht. Entweder ich hab Tomaten auf den Augen, oder der Download wurde zu gut versteckt

thealien666 · August 17, 2012, 7:59pm

Ben, bunun için hazır olacak.

Alain.

CZ_Rider · August 17, 2012, 8:02pm

I did this for many years for live shows, where my Voyager doubled as a MIDI controler. My solution was to use an Anatek Pocket Pedal. It not only gave me a MIDI sustian switch but also a MIDI volume pedal. Only works for whatever was down the MIDI line, so unless the local was off and looped back, would not sustain the Voyager.

psicolor · August 18, 2012, 12:30pm

I just installed 3.6 and it worked

And i didn’t need to change something in the master menu.

J_C_Selector · August 26, 2012, 2:27am

Hi ya’s , can anyone please tell me how to use this, as it is just an ‘on or off’ switch.
I am using an XL ,
thanx,
Jeremy