I had a fantastic experience today getting to demo a Voyager for the first time. I’m a phatty user myself only because of the price difference, but I got to knob twiddle with a Voyager OS for a decent amount of time while at the awesome Rogue Music in NYC (as suggested by some of you!).
As far as I knew, the OS only came in the original brown wood color, but the one I demo’d was white. Was this a custom job somebody got? I was thinking this was the case as it sounded like butter and the price tag was close to the Phatty Tribute, at $1800. I would have bought it in a heart beat if I wasn’t strapped, because it blew my mind. I completely understand why the Voyager line is so revered and obsessed over…
That makes at least two of us. I had played with an Virus TI polar at the B&H store earlier today, and was impressed (been waiting to get hands on for a while), but after playing with the Voyager OS the Virus seemed a little…toyish. It’s a good synth, but it’s not a Moog.
I’d love to see a Voyager OS whitewash with reverse color keyboard, all white switches and jacks, and UV LED wheels…and I’m just crazy enough to do it!
That’s funny…their switches come in blue, red, white, orange, and yellow. No black. Nova Musik has special edition Select Series Voyagers that have all white switches, all orange switches, all red switches, all blue switches, with matching back lights. Very classy, IMO. A bit out of my price range, though. Don’t you have one of those Voyagers with all red everything?
If you go to Fatar’s website, the people who make the Voyager keys, you will find they do indeed offer reverse color keys. Whether or not Moog could get them is another story, but I am certain that SOMEONE could.
I have to admit I was surprised no one mentioned the price. It’s killing me not being able to phone up Rogue and tell them to hold it for me to come and adopt it. It was like a freakin’ bonding experience meeting that synth. My only hesitation is the lack of midi, but is there a way around it?
I’d love to, but I living far enough into Jersey that I’m not sure when the next time is I’m gonna be in the city…plus I’m going to be working in Baltimore for the next 3 weeks…so, sorry!
Plus I’m not sure I could stand the heartbreak of being in the immediate area of that synth again without bringing it home.
If the “big” voyager had a preset system like the LP, I’d consider investing in the OS because it’d be different enough, but as the Voyager is the same thing + digital stuff, I’d be hesitant to lay down the cash…unless I could buy both of course…I think I’d get a kick out of having to take digital photos to remember “presets” for the OS, really forces you to pay attention to what you twiddle.
Just not as clean, but nothing that 20 minutes of care couldn’t fix. I thought it was new when I first saw it…it didn’t look like it had been sitting in guitar center…
White Voyager, Red B3, Gold Sparkle and tweed Rhodes. Can’t get weird enough for me. I think Moog should commission a few artists to do one off Voyager cabinets with crazy paint jobs.
If I had the time I would have prepaid for my Voyager and had them send me the unfinished cabinet first. All these Voyagers are pretty much custom order anyway.
Where did I see the old Model D with the hippie paint job?
