Note priority on incoming midi not working?

[midilifestyle]

I just got a voyager and I'm really excited about it. But I'm having difficulty getting it to handle incoming midi correctly.

I've adjusted note priority repeatedly (yes, I know it's associated with patches and is not global). I can change the way the Voyager prioritizes notes I play on its keyboard. But when I send midi to it--either sequenced in Ableton or from an external midi keyboard--it only uses low note priority. That's when it's 'behaving'. Sometimes it arbitrarily uses last note priority or high note. But let's just say it's using low all the time, because that's generally the deal. What this means is that if I accidentally overlap any notes in a programmed sequence, the overlapping higher notes don't sound, which leave annoying silences in my sequences that I have to fix by hand in Ableton so that nothing overlaps.

I don't have this issue with my phatties. Does my Voyager have a glitch? Would a hard OS reset change anything? I can't imagine that my voyager just *is* this way and I have to learn to work around it. I have a number of recent analog synths--DSI, etc--and the moogs are the sketchiest as far as doing weird things with midi. But I hope this isn't one of those things...

[stiiiiiiive]

Don't have the instrument but according to the manual, this is a keyboard related parameter only:

KEYBOARD MODE allows you to select one of 4 types of keyboard
priority for a preset. The keyboard priority determines what happens
when more than one key is pressed on the keyboard.

Any Voyager user, correct me if wrong.

[CZ Rider]

I just got a voyager and I'm really excited about it. But I'm having difficulty getting it to handle incoming midi correctly.

Sounds like you have the "MIDI key order" set to a polyphonic setting. This is a global setting and will effect the way the Voyager recognizes and sorts the incomming MIDI notes no matter what the preset. Found in the Master menu under "MIDI key order". Check the setting to be sure it is set as a single voice recieve. "Maximum Keys" set to 1 and "Active Key" to off.
That should fix the incoming MIDI note issue.

[midilifestyle]

Thanks for that, y'all.

I talked to Andy on the phone and he said, from what he remembers, the incoming midi note priority is hard set to low note. But I'll give your advice a try.