One Vs Polychain Voyager

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One Vs Polychain Voyager

Post by JustBlaze » Mon Nov 01, 2021 11:10 pm

I need something to do while my MemoryMoog is being serviced..

Would you rather have:

A)An 8 voice One

B)8 polychained Voyager RME’s

Financial difference irrelevant.

Sound wise, feel wise, feature wise, power wise, etc. Which would you rather have, and why?

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Re: One Vs Polychain Voyager

Post by Ragnorrk » Mon Jan 24, 2022 11:33 pm

Daft Punk toured with many Voyagers and I'm not certain whether they utilized them as poly synths, however. My experience of polychaining analog monosynths wasn't worthwhile in the end. The sounds become muddy and it's difficult to match the synth's sounds.
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Re: One Vs Polychain Voyager

Post by ummagumma » Sun Jan 30, 2022 2:15 pm

I'd probably go with the one, for ease of control. Although it would be a fascinating experiment to see what you could do with 8 RME?

Would it be best to actually polychain them, or use a midi splitter instead, fed from a keyboard controller?

With a good controller you could send bank & cc commands to all of them.

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Re: One Vs Polychain Voyager

Post by till » Tue Feb 01, 2022 6:31 am

ummagumma wrote: Sun Jan 30, 2022 2:15 pm...
Would it be best to actually polychain them, or use a midi splitter instead, fed from a keyboard controller?
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With a MIDI splitter, the eight RMEs would play unison. You need something to handle the assignment of polyphonic played notes to the different RMEs. So polychaining is the easiest way. Or find some MIDI tool (soft or hardware) to do this using 8 parallel MIDI outputs.
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Re: One Vs Polychain Voyager

Post by ummagumma » Thu Feb 03, 2022 9:26 am

Ah, yes something like a MIDI BRO, or MIDI MUSO which is CV

Actually the MUSO would work with polychaining moog modulars, since it's CV. I wonder if anyone has tried that yet?

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Re: One Vs Polychain Voyager

Post by stiiiiiiive » Thu Feb 03, 2022 10:56 am

Two other candidates:
- Space Brain Circuits MidiVolts: allows to control voice distribution over 4 CV/Gate channels
- Doepfer A-190-5, which I've only been told it can do the job.

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Re: One Vs Polychain Voyager

Post by ummagumma » Sat Feb 05, 2022 2:17 pm

Cool!

Once I get my system 35, 55, model 10 & model 15, I'll give that a shot :lol:

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Re: One Vs Polychain Voyager

Post by stiiiiiiive » Sun Feb 06, 2022 7:47 pm

Haha :)

Curiously enough, that MidiVolts may be even rarer than any ofthe Moog modulars!

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