Hi…I have my Voyager connected via MIDI to the Step64 but the Velocity control on the 64 seems to have no effect…any ideas?
Is the keyboard velocity working correctly when you are playing the Voyager alone ?
Connected up with CV or Midi? If CV, you might have to flip the Kbd/Gate switch on the lower right of the Voyager. If Midi, the Channel must be set properly.
When used as midi, the velocity parameter on the Step 64 translates as the midi volume, which technically is not a CC, but is send with every note played. In order for the velocity/volume to be heard, you have set the source to On/mod2, velocity on the controller section on one of the modulation busses, and then set some amount with the knob. What the velocity/volume will control is actually neither, but rather one of the parameters of the destination section of the mod bus. That’s for the Voyager Old School. The regular Voyager has slightly different names on the mod bus section I believe, but it behaves the same.
The Voyager is a synth, and that’s how it works. On a regular keyboard, like as a Roland Juno or whatever, the velocity/volume will serve as an expression parameter that is more akind to its name.
If you were are using the Step 64 to sequence with CV’s instead of Midi, then it is just a CV and it controls whatever red jack the plug is inserted into, like Volume, or Pan (intersting effects here) but you have two more CV’s to work with for Pan and whatever else.
If you want to control the volume of the Voyager, while sequencing with the Step 64-midi, then you need the VX-351 and patch back to the Volume jack of the Voyager.
Thanks everyone… It seems I can just use a CV from the 64 straight into the Voager Volume input, even though everything elseis being handled via MIDI. The Step64 is a great little unit btw…highly recommended.
Yes of course you can. Actually I was wondering why you bothered to use midi when the Step 64 work so well with the Voyager using CV’s
To trigger the notes à la CV, patch CV1 of the Step64 to pitch input of the Voyager, and gate of the Step64 to Env gate (blue nut) of the Voyager. Make sure you also set the keyboard switch of the Voyager to external. Then you are all CV’s, and you can get rid of the midi connection. You also benefit from the envelopes and you still have two extra CV’s from the Step64 to control whatever you like.