Any experiences here of combining a Voyager and a modular?
I do it like this as the modular grows.
Nice. Interesting choice of synths with modular, fooger and a B3. A name in there I have not heard of to.
I see what you are doing with the modular. It’s small but I suspect its designed to serve your needs. If I got a modular it would be after the Voyager and then only to serve certain function. The more I think about it I can’t see spending a few thousand to get a bunch of basic modules that don’t sound as good as the Voyager. If I get the Voyager first, I can add on as needed. The Voyager can be integrates a lot easier into a modular system than I think people realize.
Here is a little thing having a modular is good for.
Patch the CV of the MOD wheel out through a Quantizer.
Patch the Quantizer through an attenuator and back to the Voyager’s PITCH input.
Now, when you play a Flute, Sax or other patch, moving the MOD wheel gives you semitone runs between notes.
For me, so far it has been about the same cost as buying Foogers. A CP251 costs about the same as all the modules to do the same functions from DotCom. You get more functionality fromt he modular, but it takes more space. There are many module functions that are not yet available from Moog. So it depends on what you want to do. I don’t like the stomp box format, either.
I’ve got a 16 step sequencer for the modular that is under repair. (bought a project from another forum member.)
What is interesting, though. I have not seen any modules that do what a Murf does. I will probably buy one and strip it out of it’s housing and make it into a module.
With the 351 and the inputs on the back, a Voyager becomes an semi modular with normalization. You will notice that there is only one oscillator in my modular. I use it as an LFO or FM modulator. My modular was built as a sound modifier not as a seperate instrument. (It works great with guitars and basses as the oscillators. (Pitch, waveform and envelope)
They don’t have to be the huge monsters you see in everyones pictures. Though this one WILL grow at least one more 22 space case.
Sounds like a good setup and what you are talking about is similar to what I want to do. I have a few ideas o things to try eventually but they all involve audio and processing. I also like you fooger comparsion. I sometimes think how nice it would be to have this or that in a fooger or have other CVs on a fooger and then I usually can find a module or two that would accomplish that purpose so I will probably end up getting a few modules or more eventually, they just will not form the core of my rig.
I’ve been trying to use my Voyager more with the modular. Until I get my VX351 it’s kind of limited and I use it mostly for extra VCOs. Here’s a bleepy piece I did last night using 2 random generators, a quantizer, some low pass gates and my Old School…