The touchpad

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Do you find the touchpad useful?

  • Yes, it was worthwhile for Moog to include it on the Voyager
  • No, I never use it
  • I use it for fun, but does not get used when I’m playing seriously.
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I don’t really use it, its fun, but its not useful.

Edit: I also think it was positioned in the wrong place too.

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i use it quite a bit.

  1. a lot of our music is composed in Reason with modulations (filter and osc 2/synced to osc 1) synched to the beat, lots of s/h stuff. this is tough to sync in a live setting with a real drummer, so i set up patches that let me just tap the screen randomly in time with the beat - its like having a s/h that you can play like a tabla.

  2. i love to use the screen for pitch or osc 2/synced to osc 1 by touching and gently rocking my finger to create vibrato like a string player would - very expressive

  3. i wish i had a big ribbon controller so i could play it with my ass like keith emerson

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I think the touchpad is great. Try assigning it to ext. in level, osc. 2 pitch (sync on) and osc. 3 pitch (FM on). Oh yes, and patch the output into the Ext. in. You get these great expressive screaming sounds. It kinda feels like a guitar when you play it; it screams more when you lean into it. You have control of general “evilness”, but you can’t be 100% sure of exactly what the parameter values are at any given point. That’s much of what makes the Voyager so great - when you push it, it feels like it pushes back.

-Hoax

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Overall, I’m not happy with the touchpad being in the centre of the panel. Sure, it might make the voyager look more symettrical, but I would have rather had the touch screen on the left by the pitch and mod wheels.

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Love the touchpad. I love that it can control my Moogerfoogers Delay and Ring Modulator as well as my Blacet moduler pieces too. Pretty cool. I do like a Joystick as with EMS synths. Thay seem to be wilder when used(early Roxy Music Eno), but with the Voyager it’s just deeper with all the modulation routes you can go.

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Overall, I’m not happy with the touchpad being in the centre of the panel.

Yeah, I know what you mean. It is nice to be able to get to it with either hand, but 75% of the time, I’m using it with my left hand.

Now a standalone Tactex touchpad, with 3 CV outs… That, I’d dish out some cash for.

Well, maybe more than 3… 6, maybe. 3 pairs, with each pair opposite, so each finger movement creates 2 CVs, opposite from each other. Tactex 3D crossfader!

-Hoax

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Oh, and if Rudi can get the operating system up to transmitting MIDI continuous controllers, it’ll be even better! (I’ve used the joystick on my Yamaha TG33 as a pair of continuous controllers to provide a pseudo-3D pan effect before. Good stuff!)

-Hoax