Hello All!!! I havent been active here lately. But now’s as good time as any to get back into it.
I am thinking of selling my Voyager also, but for different reasons. I understand the rationale behind those that say dont sell, because the Voyager can be pretty bad ass, to say the least. But i can also understand the rationale behind wanting to go “simpler”
To The Unknown: That was a good analogy, but here’s another take on it: I live in California, and we have this guy on PBS, Huell Howser, and he goes all around Cali showing interesting things (the show’s called california’s gold). Anyways, he went to this farm were the family who owns it is still using the old fashioned equipment.They made hay and whatever it is called before it becomes hay. They do in fact have a horse-drawn machine to do the plowing, or whatever its called when you make the rows. They also had a horse drawn contraption to gather the hay into bunches before its collection and baled. All machinery they were using was upwards of 90 years old! The equipment they used needed constant upkeep and repairs, yet they still wanted to use it all. It was hard work requiring special touches, that are lost on the newer generations.
So why would they use all this stuff when they could go the easy way and get tractors with air conditioning and a cd player and a bunch of other modern conveiniences? Well, put simply, the nostaglia of the old times that were gone long, long ago. They obviously appreciate the simplicity of the old archaic and “backwards” equipment, and they wouldnt have it any other way. And they got a lot of satisfaction and family togetherness out of doing it that way also.
A less fitting analogy: Why would someone give up things like electricity and runnning water all to go live out in the forest and live off the land? Well simplicity of course! Well, is it actually “simpler” to go this way? Hell no! Its very tough and lots of hard work, but there are people out there willing to do it, for “simplicity’s” sakeall the time.
Why do people go around searching for and buying antiques, when they could have the latest and greatest fasion made from space-age materials and the latest in ergonomic design? Why do people spend countless hours and money searching for parts to cars that arent made any more? Why do they bother driving cars that were made in the 20’s, with no power steering, no A.C., no air bags, no seat belts? Why does Jay Leno own and drive a steam powered car? Why do people buy, much less look at, art that is hundreds of years old? Why do people use vintage cameras to make films? Why do photgraphers use those old cameras with the drapes? Why do people listen to classical, blues, country western, the “oldies but goodies”, when they could listen to some techno made with the newest equipment with all the bells and whistles (though even then you have those that will only use the classic synths). Call it nostalgia. Call it “backwards” Part of it has of it definitely has to do with simplicity. All these things have a little “something” that the newer version can’t capture. It might be tangible. It might be intangible.
The new Voyager is way more complex the the Old school Model D’s. Even though they basically almost have the same basic components. The Voyager has many things the oldies don’t: XYA touch pad, multimapping of pots, stable oscillators, patch memory, LCD display, Two filters, MIDI, an operating system (that right there is a biggie, allowing unlimited different features) am i missing anything? There’s some others, but im not too familiar with the D’s to make an adequate comparison. Did the Model D’s have the oscillator sync, and FM?
You can get a whole new world of sounds with the Voyager and expression than with the Model D. Are you maybe limiting yourself? Possibly. But through self-imposed limitations come the most creative moments, at least in my opinion. You could have a warehouse full of synths and come up with utter crap. You could have 1 shitty Casio keyboard and come up with jam after jam. Its all how you use what you have. People are most creative when they have very little, just look at any bum town or a homeless person’s “house” and tell me they aren’t really really creative. Even how these people survive is creative! (despite some of the destructive habits many have)
So Fenix Le, if you want to go out and sell your Voyager in favor of the old “backward” Model D, I say go for it!
There’s something to be said of something that is going on 40 or 100 years old that you still can use everyday and it functions the same is it did when it first was made, even if it needs a little more TLC from time to time. And the old equipment, and music always has more “soul” in it than the newer ones, due to the simple matter of passing time and all the man hours and people that touched it in its lifetime, and gave a little of themselves to make it do what they wanted it to do. Those limitations and hardships are worth it and will give you a greaer sense of satisfaction.
And as for music today, who will argue that alot of the stuff coming out today is missing alot of that soul that the older stuff has? I dont mean to say all music today has no soul, because some have a little, but never as much as the older stuff.
Well, those are my two cents.
-patrick
. In the old days I used to write some patches down on paper to then get “close” to dialing it back up. Other times, and I still do today, I simply dial it up as I go from memory or experieince. For me though I like being able to store them 
