We’ve made available a new Voyager OS, it’s version 3.3. This week we have the Keyboard version available - next week we should have the Rack Mount version available too.
Go to a Voyager product page and click the software link, it should be the last file on the page. The three firmware banks are in a .zip folder with user notes.
Here’s a quick overview of the new features:
Local Control On/Off - Local Off now turns off the front panel controls as well as the keyboard, and the state is remembered after power down.
MIDI Key Order - you can now select the number of Voyagers in your set up from one to 16 for polyphonic playing.
Save Preset - now you can easily save to any of the 7 preset banks (if you have the 3.x digital board)
Pitch Bend Amount - separate Up/Down Amounts are stored in a preset
We hope you enjoy the new features.
Thanks to Rudi Linhard for yet another OS upgrade!
No, but it is very important to save your presets before you make the upgrade. After the upgrade you should make a factory reset before you re-load your presets (MASTER/COPYRIGHT INFO/ENTER/+1/ENTER/CURSOR–>YES/ENTER).
Have fun,
Rudi
I did not back up my sounds before the update so I decided to do it now. I thought I was backing all sounds up but it seems that the receive presets/send presents only works for the current bank and not all banks - is this correct? Also, resetting to the factory presets sets the current bank to the original 128 patches only not the 128 that were in that bank otherwise - is that right? That is…if I reset bank A and B and C they will contain the patches starting with “I’m Baaack!” etc…
I think that’s what I’m seeing happen but just want to be sure this is correct behaviour.
it seems that the receive presets/send presents only works for the current bank and not all banks - is this correct?
You are right.
Also, resetting to the factory presets sets the current bank to the original 128 patches only not the 128 that were in that bank otherwise - is that right?
Yes, correct.
Unfortunately there’s not enaugh space in the flash memory to re-load all banks. But you don’t need a factory reset for all banks - any bank is OK.
Have fun,
Rudi
Thanks Rudi !
Nice to see you are still doing a good thing even better.
Question:
will the old bipolar pitchbend range data used for the up and the down range if the patch is loaded to an OS 3.3 Voyager ?
And what happens the other way: sending a patch with different up and down range to an pre OS 3.3 Voyager? What will happen ? Will the up or the down range used for both ranges ?
I guess you found a way to make the old and new sound work on the other Voyager too.
BTW: what synth got different up and down ranges on pitch bend too?
I think this is a seldom found (and used?) feature.
I think I nuked a bank by accident but I’ll just download some of the patches from the web site and reload. I saved my own bank of patches properly which is good! What’s the easiest way to get A-G reloaded fully? I forget how they got there initially -I guess since I bought a 3.0 unit they were there all along.
However, the best part is the nonsense that got loaded into the compare buffer. It’s a bunch of bizzare settings that I have yet to figure out (I got back to normal from the original patch) but it’s great for sound effects.
I’m not (yet) a Voyager user (though I’m hoping to be the proud owner of an LP Stage Edition once they’re available!), but there’s something about the Voyager functionality that I’ve been wondering about:
would it be possible in a future update to add a feature supporting the “analogue mode: pass-thru / track” functionality that the LP has? or does the hardware used on the Voyager simply prohibit such an addition to the OS? it seems like it would be a useful touch, I’m surprised that the Voyager doesn’t support it already…
can you explain this feature a little more? does this mean i can easily implement unequal temperaments? in other words, can a set a separate pitch bend amount for each note in the scale? as an added bonus, can i have the separate pitch bend only apply to one or two oscillators? one thing i’d like to do is have some oscillators drone at a fixed frequency and others play the note, but have all the notes tuned to pure just intervals against the drones. this would be especially useful for hard-syncing. i’d like to have the hard-synced oscillator drone, and the syncing oscillator only play just tuned notes. this is not currently easy to do with any existing analogue equipment, so if the new voyager os allows this, i will probably get one.
Hm, wait a minute. Does this mean that all of the front panel control movements are sent out via MIDI?
The reason I ask is: I use a MIDI patchbay and all of my keyboards are in local off mode. So if I want to play the Voyager, I route its MIDI-out to its MIDI-in via the patchbay.
Can I still tweak the sounds via the front panel this way in local off mode?
