But there are ways of handling the OS panel so that one can make significant changes - even while playing - so that there isn’t a one-sound-per-song handicap.
Man you know, were not splitting hairs here, but this notion of “One sound per song handicap” is in the programmer, not the synth.
Maybe you are implying that the memory lends itself to programming a sound and save it for a song to call it back up every time, but to me thats the whole idea. I can experiment and go apeshite on the panel configurations and then return right back to normal without having to meticulously undo each step. I also don’t have to be so anal about who touches my Voyager or changes the panel settings because I haven’t documented the patch yet.
But I understand that this thread is Voyager Obsession, and if that is your personal romantisized rationale for your particular model of Voyager, then I totally understand. Thats your connection with the circuitry. I have one of my own (several, actually). This is something that need not be debated. Its part of that magical bond (that to outsiders reeks of-how did a poster here put it- man/machine love taken too far) that these products enable.
Ummm, I don’t remember splitting hairs or being critical of anything or anyone, except in saying that I liked the appearance of the OS over the other models. That wasn’t meant as a “pot shot” at the other Voyagers or Voyager owners; it was just a statement in favor of the instrument I chose.
This statement looked to me like you were getting irritated with us, that is myself and spittingoutteeth, and that WE were the ones splitting the hairs of your particular statement.
I also didn’t view that as being a pot shot on other voyager owners.
Especially the Nova Musik “Nova Edition” in whitewash with indigo lighting - gotta get me one of those soon! Sold my electric blue a year ago, and I’m really missing having a Voyager. I played a Phatty recently & was going to get one, but I realized I won’t really be happy until I get another Voyager. Maybe once the Taurus IIIs are paid for…
It depends on you!
I own the GameBoy-Version (the Voyager with Touchpad) and turned off the parameter display, because the parameter display always seduced me to trust more in my eyes than in my ears, although i’m very shortsighted… Due to the fact that i do not use presets, my front panel always represents the current sound setting. I like the touchpad a lot and the ability to change the keyboard mode or the filter pole settings.
But when I reduce it to the optics, i also like the Voyager OldSchool better. Hm, but this may be also a fashion thing. In several years those green backlighted dot-matrix-LCDs and those poor quadratic menu buttons will eventually appear breathtaking. Who knows…
I, too, have turned off the parameter display on my Voyager Performer, and only opt to display the keyboard transpose screen. My panel always reflects the sound that is being played, and I only use the legends on the panel, and the tick marks on the knobs, to determine my parameter values, just like on the OS.
Recently I checked the voltage display for the limits of the pitch wheel and found that the value at one end was showing a bit lower than the limit at the other end. I listened to see if I could actually hear the difference, and I couldn’t. So, I’m not going to get hyper about realigning the pitch wheel because if I can’t hear it, I’m not going to worry about it, despite what the display says.
Thats your connection with the circuitry. I have one of my own (several, actually). This is something that need not be debated. Its part of that magical bond (that to outsiders reeks of-how did a poster here put it- man/machine love taken too far) that these products enable.