Before I ever played a Voyager my friend and I had a debate about what would be the best synth ever, we dubbed Frankensynth.
He was looking at the Roland V-Synth and I was Voyager all the way and we talked about having a synth battle.
It was one of those things where we played a feature war where eventually I flipped up the panel of my voyager and destroyed him lol. It was “you shoudl have ben there” to really get in on it.
But this led me to think that it would be really nice to get the Rackmounted V-Synth and control that with the Voyager. This was frankensynth for me.
Now I just want to settle for the Fantom XR rack module.
A Waldorf Microwave and a dot com polyphonic modular along side my LP would do me fine. Of course, a simple three-voice modular is WAY out of my price range.
My Frankensynth would be an eight voice Little Phatty with the same internal modulations as the Prophet '08 (three envelopes, four LFO’s, etcetera), all real analog of course. More CV’s (both in and out) and white LED’s like a TI Polar.
I would call it the “Big Phatty”.
Yes, but not right now. I’m moving next week and I have to buy some furniture and stuff.
PS. I unpacked one of my Phatties and played with it the entire evening!
I’m trying to make a whole new library of sounds: new home, new studio, new sounds..
I would need 3 synths for this to work for me - a Moog Little Phatty for lead work, an Alesis Andromeda for the pads and a Moog Taurus-3 for holding down the bottom end.
Just be really careful to not mess up when playing that patch, otherwise the last thing you’re likely to see is his foot coming at your head, out of the speaker! He’s a proud man, and doesn’t take kindly to those who make him look bad. Also, be sure to keep the audience at least 20 feet from the PA, as the patch is likely to start throwing roundhouse kicks at them, especially when you start playing sub-bass notes.
Haha! It’s in the sub bass region and I haven’t tried to play it through the installation, only on my headphones.
I didn’t even use the overload by the way, now I still have some headroom to go over the top in case Norris will be roundhouse kicking my ass..
Two PPG Wave 2.3s with analogue filters and the Waveterm “updated” to an onboard display and modern storage, retaining the 12-bit sound though, and perhaps joystick mixer; quadrophonic outputs with an azimuth co-ordinator allowing on the fly surround.
But I have a V-Synth XT, Voyager with 351… and for sequencing I should really learn how to use my Supernova, since it can do 8-part MIDI polyphonic arps and so forth; it’s just a bit tricky to program.
The hoarder/collector in me still wants a Synclavier or Fairlight…
From what’s in the studio if I had to whittle it down to just two, I think the Voyager and Korg Z1. The Z1’s multi osc choices and arpegiator offer loads of sonic fun. The Motif though could be another choice since you can put in the expander cards for FM, analog, modeling, you can sample with it 9 even drop a sample into a sequence ). From other synths on the market, the V synth would be a possible choice.
It is fun to midi a bunch of things together for that killer pad that eats up all available space in the mix . A sprinkle DX here with a dash of D50 with some Prophet 08 and Chroma Poalris as the main sound, with a sample of a running stream…then fire up a MemoryMoog Plus in mono mode midi’s to a Voyager and Little Phatty and watch the walls crumble . It is a fantasy right ?
. A sprinkle DX here with a dash of D50 with some Prophet 08 and Chroma Poalris as the main sound, with a sample of a running stream…then fire up a MemoryMoog Plus in mono mode midi’s to a Voyager and Little Phatty and watch the walls crumble 