How stable is the Voyager?
How stable is the Voyager?
I was wondering how stable the Voyager is tuning wise? Does it go out of tune easy? I noticed that you have to manually tune it...which is no big deal. However, once it warms up and you tune it once...does it stay in tune or do you have to keep tuning it?
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I think it is off by a few cents. Not by semitones !OysterRock wrote:... off by a few semitones ...
The Voyager warms up faster then my Minimoog with the so called new oscillator board.
And the Voyager is not that much pitch drifting on temperature changes as the Alesis Andromeda with switched of automatic temperture adjustment.
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Sequence:
Prodigy * minimoog '79 * Voyager * MF102 * MF103 * MF104z * MP201 * Taurus 3 * Minitaur * Sub Phatty * MF105 * Minimoog 2017+ MUSE * One 16
Sequence:
Prodigy * minimoog '79 * Voyager * MF102 * MF103 * MF104z * MP201 * Taurus 3 * Minitaur * Sub Phatty * MF105 * Minimoog 2017+ MUSE * One 16
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Onboard 440hz tuning tones are so 1960s.
Back then musicians didn't have digital synths to tune by ear or compact tuners. Back then VCO design had yet to advance to today's temperature compensated designs and thus they drifted very frequently, hence the necessity of the onboard 440hz tone.
I seldom had to touch up the tuning when carting the Voyager between gigs.
Back then musicians didn't have digital synths to tune by ear or compact tuners. Back then VCO design had yet to advance to today's temperature compensated designs and thus they drifted very frequently, hence the necessity of the onboard 440hz tone.
I seldom had to touch up the tuning when carting the Voyager between gigs.
I use a digital synth to tune mine. I'll select an Init with a single osc. and tune to that. Rarely does my Voyager need tuning. It seems to hold pretty steady day in and day out. But once in awhile it will be off ever so slightly.
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Once it warmed up a few minutes, the pitch is just were it was when it was shut-off. So no need to retune here at home at all. But if you are at a freiends place or on a gig, you might need to tune it to the other instruments anyway. So not a big deal at all. And way better then all my other analogue synths here.
keep on turning these Moog knobs
Sequence:
Prodigy * minimoog '79 * Voyager * MF102 * MF103 * MF104z * MP201 * Taurus 3 * Minitaur * Sub Phatty * MF105 * Minimoog 2017+ MUSE * One 16
Sequence:
Prodigy * minimoog '79 * Voyager * MF102 * MF103 * MF104z * MP201 * Taurus 3 * Minitaur * Sub Phatty * MF105 * Minimoog 2017+ MUSE * One 16
I think the Voyager is to stable. I think that’s why my Model D with two VCO's beats the Voyager using 3 VCO. I guess vintage analogue sizers are like fine vine... they need to mature.
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Demokid
Gearlist: Andromeda A6, Emu E4XT Ultra, Korg MS20, Minimoog Model D (incl.MIDI), Minimoog Voyager AE, Roland Jupiter-8 (MIDI), RE-301, Prophet~5 (Rev3.3 incl MIDI), Poly Evolver Keyboard, Pro~One, Prophet 08, Synthesizers.com Custom Studio-44
I usually do that with my Andromeda who also is a bit to stable even with Temp/Back ground tune off. The A6 has 3 LFO's and 1 S&H so I route one of the LFO’s with a slow sine to one of the VCO’s. I also route keyboard track (only 0.02) to a VCO so it change pitch slightly higher up on the keyboard.MC wrote:Route smoothed S&H modulation to one of the VCOs and presto! Vintage drift and instant fine wineDemokid wrote:I think the Voyager is to stable. I think that’s why my Model D with two VCO's beats the Voyager using 3 VCO. I guess vintage analogue sizers are like fine vine... they need to mature.
The problem is that the Voyager only has one LFO… I usually want to use the LFO/S&H to something else.
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Gearlist: Andromeda A6, Emu E4XT Ultra, Korg MS20, Minimoog Model D (incl.MIDI), Minimoog Voyager AE, Roland Jupiter-8 (MIDI), RE-301, Prophet~5 (Rev3.3 incl MIDI), Poly Evolver Keyboard, Pro~One, Prophet 08, Synthesizers.com Custom Studio-44