Can you send a guitar through the Voyager?

kidgloves2 · Post by **kidgloves2** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 12:07 pm

Is it possible to plug a guitar into the voyager and use it as a guitar synth? If not, is it possible to modify the Voyager for this?

SynthBaron · Post by **SynthBaron** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 7:37 pm

Don't other guitar synths out there transmit MIDI?

Post by **moogmusic** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 11:52 am

You can run the guitar signal through Voyager - there is an external audio input. The guitar signal passes through the Mixer, into the Filters, then to the output. You can get some really neat sounds with the Filters' dual lowpass mode, and you can get crazy effects when you modulate the filters with an oscillator (or 2)...
What you can't do with the external audio input is trigger the envelope generators, or control the pitches of the oscillators. You would need a guitar to MIDI converter to do that.
Hope that helps!
Moog Music

kidgloves2 · Post by **kidgloves2** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 12:53 pm

Yea, that does help!!! I feel like experimenting.

Thanks!

SynthBaron · Post by **SynthBaron** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 8:30 pm

That's what I mean, all your going to be able to do is run it through the filter. Too bad no one makes just an envelope follower in a box.

kidgloves2 · Post by **kidgloves2** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 11:02 pm

I just realized I don't know crap about synths. But I LOVE the way they sound. Especially 80's music/sci-fi sound fx.

Can anyone recommend a good book to start learning. I don't know an envelope from a filter to an oscillator.

edFig · Post by **edFig** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 6:03 am

My step-son (they guitarist in the family) and I have played around with the MF-101 Filter using it's envelope follower. We then either "bypass" the filter or not, depending on the phase of the moon, and use the envelope follower to trigger the Voyager.

What would be really nice would be the addition of a pitch to CV (and/or MIDI) converter. Then you can control even more of the synth. But we had lots of fun with just the guitar, the filter, and the Voyager.

Best of luck!

mpulver · Post by **mpulver** » Sat Aug 02, 2003 6:57 pm

kidgloves2 wrote:Can anyone recommend a good book to start learning. I don't know an envelope from a filter to an oscillator.

This is a nice interactive website for learning the basics:

http://nmc.uoregon.edu/emi/

This is a thread on another site that has some good suggestions as well:

http://www.the-gas-station.com/messages ... stdays=999

kidgloves2 · Post by **kidgloves2** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 3:15 am

Thanks for the links. This is going to keep me busy for a couple days.

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