I recently purchased the Moog Voyager Training DVD and I am glad I did. It has made a huge difference in my understanding of the basic features of the Voyager and its vast potentialities. Brian Kehew takes you on a guided tour of all of the Voyager’s features and explains how to use them in a simple and straightforward manner.
I am the kind of person who, when I don’t understand something of a “technical nature”, I just need to be shown. Some things I read and re-read in the Voyager Owner’s Manual over and over again but I just didn’t get it until I watched the Voyager Training DVD.
Examples:
I never really understood how the Filter Envelope Generator works. Now I am really starting to get the most out of the Filter section, and now realize that the Filter EG is a powerful tool for helping to sculpt the sound.
I now understand how the dual filters work and how they can be used to make the Voyager sound bigger and fuller. Next I am going to work on understanding how to change the Filter Poles to get different sounds.
With my Voyager RME I have almost always worked off of the Real Panel Parameters, but now, after watching the Training DVD, I feel more comfortable with using the Programmable Mod Sources and Destinations in the Mod Busses. And I am curious to explore the possibilities of pot mapping.
I can’t recommend the Voyager Training DVD highly enough, for all skill and experience levels of users and players.
I wish someone with the MoogerFooger dvd that wants the Voyager DVD woudl be willing to make a little “Trade” via a bit torrent. Id sure upload my voyager dvd for this purpose hehehe.
I really wasn’t a big fan of DVD’s, but I just got a Tascam 2488 hard disk recorder and watching the training DVD just made it all so much easier to learn.
So I have just ordered the DVD from MF and hope that it can help shed some light on some of the more esoteric voyager functions.
Being primarily a drummer by trade, my heads starts swimming when it comes to Pot Mapping and the like.
I think that youll find that pot mapping is relatively easy.
Its just like a source to a destination to another destination.
Example
Mod WHeel controls freq of Osc2 and it controls controls filter cutoff.
It gives you an extension for your hand.
Its very much similar to a “multiple” module in modular synthesis… taking your expresion pedal, sending it to a “multiple” (which will multiply it up to three times) and then sending the signal of the expression pedal to 3 different destinations.
Example: One sweep of the pedal will
Increase the LFO on the RIng Modulator while
Sweeping the Frequency on the Freq Box while also
Increasing the Volume of the Voyager
Its just assigning one source to change the settings on multiple destinations.
In essence…turning 1 knob effects 3 more. THe manual will give you a list of sources and destinations.
If im not mistaken you have 3 or 4 pot mapping capabillities. I think you can make the last one in the series the first in the next series.
Touch surface X controls the Osc 2 freq which controls the filter cutoff.
Filtercutoff controls the modulation amount which increases the LFO rate.
LFO Rate increases waveshape of osc 2 which turns doen the volume.
I hope I hven’t further confused you.
I think someone else will jump in and perhapd better explain it.
