I recently purchased a Voyager. I have zero experience with synths or keyboards and limited music experience (I do play a bit of guitar). But I fell in love with the Moog sound while playing around with one in a store. It should be delivered in the next few days. I was wondering if there were any guides available for making music with the Voyager other than the instruction manual. A DVD that demonstrated different techniques would be awesome. Is there anything like that available?
No, not that I know of. Basically you just have to learn subtractive synthesis. Check out these texts:
Power Tools for Synthesizer Programming (Jim Aiken) Nice explanation of basic concepts.
Electronic Music (Allen Strange) out of print, but I found one at my library.
Analog Days (Pinch and Trocco) Good for perspective on where this thing comes from and what it can do.
Lots of info online as well, there is a Voyager mailing list as well as a modular list (where you can get ideas that will apply to the MMV as well)
Enjoy! I’ve learned to play quite a few instruments, and this one is by far the most fun.
I recently purchased a Corvette. I have zero experience with driving and I want to drive like Dale Earnhardt. I do ride a tricycle. I was wondering if there were any guides available for reckless driving other than my state driver’s test booklet.
Also, the dashboard confuses me. What is “fuel” and what do the letters “F” and “E” mean? Traffic lights don’t make any sense to me, when they are red I see people go really fast. Which of the three floor pedals makes the car go really fast? My gears say 1-2-3-4-R, does “R” mean “Really fast”?
Your question did sound pretty funny, but I post stuff like that all the time. A friend of mine’s a jazz player and told me Phil Degruy just got the notion to play guitar one day, when in his twenties( http://www.guitarp.com/ ). If you love the sound and have a job outside the music industry, you can probably afford it.
in the words of Brother Dave Gardner, i believe the “R” is for race!