I think this is a fair question. They are both analog, monophonic synthesizers. So, lets hear it. Whats better Moog Voyager or a Casio VL-tone.
It doesn’t seem like a worthy enough instrument that any were made. Like a Poor man’s Roland MC-202, which was deemed a “Poor Man’s 303.” ![]()
Since it only has one VCO, I could almost certainly bet that it doesn’t hold a candle to the Voyager.
This is a joke, right? ![]()
if mr end is serious about this comparison then somethings going slight askew with his brain. maybe its made of liquid. such silly questions are often asked after the wearing of a floppy hat (such as the infamous jazz berret)at an angle of 75 degrees(give or take a few degrees).
the berret was also adopted by the french and also by acid jazzers who liked wearing them the wrong way round. In the end the berret evolved into a small animal once the letter F had been designed by removing the bottom steel girder from the already existing letter E .Hence the Ferret was invented.
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It doesn’t seem like a worthy enough instrument that any were made.
Do you mean you can’t find it? Just search there were plenty made and plenty still around today.
Well lets compare:
Does the Voyager have sequencer?
drum machine?
calculator?
I didn’t think so.
VL-1 takes the lead.
I’m glad this came up! I think the VL-tone is a worthy companion for the Voyager. It can produce some very nice sounds that sound greater still when you put it through the Audio Input and use the filters to do, e.g., a tremolo on it, or even use the Moog filter.
The VL 1 can make some clean sawtooth- and square-like sounds too that can be used as an extra oscillator.
And even the “drum” parts in the VL can be sampled in any sampler-groovebox and used as an interesting accompaniment option.
The calculator can be used to calculate how many VL tones you can buy instead aof a voyager (mine cost 20 pounds or so in 1984 and would cost maybe 10 quid today. I guess you could get 1000 VL1s… Imagine a 1000 oscillator synth consisting of VL-tones - and WITHOUT OS UPDATES!!!).
It would be like Riverdance meets Da Da Da…[/img]
…actually it’s ca. 200 VL-tones at 10 quid - that would approximate the cost of a MMV. Try imagininge groups of chords played with VL-tones. A 200 piece orchestra, where there are flutes, basses, virtuoso parts, strings and pianos - and all for the cost of one voyager!
The VL even has an onboard speaker and you can pitch bend it using a screwdriver… You could modify them so that a whole section of them could be used as LFOs… Sample the drum beats to generate a noise loop source…
That sounds amazing
Think of all the batteries that would use!
I runs on a wall-wart power supply. But I can also use with my Dunlop DC-Brick which means I coulds use it with a one spot and some mulit-plug cables. Therefore, with the use of multiple cheap power-supplies I can save alot of money on batteries for the VL-1 orchestra I now intend to make.