The things good for me:
1 touch surface
2 the wave’s selection without step
3 mod. busses
4 the construction (case, keybord, LIGHT…)
the things not good for me:
1 the selectors as those of the minimoog do not have sense in a sinthesizer with memories, when you changes preset you do not understand endured if they are activated or not
2 not are “A” could equip it of a digital tuner.
3 the output volume is low (i have also Minimoog, Proone,…)
4 the high-pass filter does not have the resonance.
5 the changes on the envelopes do not have endured effect.
Congrats on the Voyager. I understood everything but the last part about the envelopes. And then do you mean that you don’t leave the house because you’re playing it all nite? Me too!
i think he means that when playing a patch from the memory the positoins of the knobs do not reflect the true values of the parameters, some synths solve this problem by using motorized knobs, but that adds a lot to the cost of the unit.
when the aniversary came out i thought the lights behind each knob would only go up to where the “real” position should be (as a visual indication of the parameter) but no they’re just there so you can see in the dark and show off.
Ah, yes. That’s what he means. Yeah, at first it was annoying, but after using the Voyager for awhile I learned to adjust for that. Now I don’t even notice it.
sorry sorry sorry! for my english…
If you move the filters adsr sustain ths soun dont’ change instantaneously but slowly.
I have other analog synth with memory but i dont’have never this experience.
This because the ADSR is done fully analogue.You will get this lag effect on most real analogue envelopes. It has something to do with carging the caps used in the envelope design by the time set at the decay stage. If you turn the time based setting of the envelopes close to zero, this lag effect should be to fast to notice.
I’ve got an OSCar monosynth that achieves this very simply by a little row of 5 LEDs (which cover other functions too).
When you’ve loaded from memory, you can find the programmed position by turning the knob until all 5 light up (above or below it progressively lights 4,3,2 etc).
It’s pretty easy on the Voyager though - the screen shows old/new parameter values - just match them knob by knob and the panel is then the program (deeper menu complexities aside).
All good fun.
By the way, anyone else ignored every other mono they have since they got the Voyager?
The Dave Smith Evolver is a neat little laptop synth that can generate some very cool sounds. Four oscillators (two analog/two digital), a programmable sequencer, twin filters, and built-in delay give it amazing sound creation possibilities.
But it doesn’t have the ease of editing that the Voyager offers with all those knobs. It doesn’t have the Moog filter (or the Moog sound). It doesn’t have a keyboard. It doesn’t have the CV interfacing capabilities. It doesn’t have an LCD…
That said, I’d suggest you MIDI the Evolver to your Voyager and get the best of both worlds. Use the Evolver sequencer to drive the Voyager. Route the Evolver audio through the Voyager. Take the Voyager’s oscillators from the Mix Out loop and process them through the Evolver (7-oscillator synth, anyone?). There’s a lot of sound-making potential here.
And let’s not forget that these two synths were designed by Bob Moog and Dave Smith respectively, two legends in the synth world. By pairing the Voyager and Evolver together, it’s like having a Sequential Minimoog! Gotta love that!
Maybe he got the PEK? I played that thing for like a whole week down at Analgouehaven. It’s really cool, has excellent sounds and features. I love that step sequencer. I didn’t like how small the LCD was nor the quality of the knobs.
No, I got the table top model. I’ve tried alot of what was suggested, and it really is good times.
I had the poly at one time, but $1300 was too much for it, I loved the noise/chaos, but didn’t like the pads, so I got the $500 evolver instead, and that works well for me.
I haven’t really looked into sending cc from the moog to the evolver. While the voyager interace is really easy to deal with, I’m getting pretty fast at the evolver, for instance, when I want LF) 3, I double click the shift button without even thinking about it. But yeah, it takes some getting used to.
I haven’t run the moog off of the evolvers sequencer, but what I have been doing is running them both off of a future reto revolution’s sequencer, and that thing is great.
I belive that the evolver and voyager complement each other nicely.
The PolyEvolver Keyboard (PEK) is a wonderful synth. The only thing I don’t like about it is that the knobs don’t have the stepped detents like the Evolver knobs. IMO, the lack of detents make tweaking difficult on the PEK.
That said, I believe the PEK will attain legendary status in time, not unlike the Prophet Five, another legendary Dave Smith creation.
