Does anyone, who owns the Voyager, hate it?

latigid on · Post by **latigid on** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:56 pm

zbq wrote:I use the touchpad to play rhythmic effects such as filter cutoff, etc. The fact that you can tap it with your finger and come up with some awesome effects is really nice. It allows you play counterpoint but instead of the counterpoint being another note, it's a manipulation of the sound itself. Very cool.

Not only manipulation, you can assign a touchpad axis to control Osc. 2 pitch. As long as you don't mind playing the same rhythm as the first note of your chord for the second note, you have some simply duophony. I suppose you could send the pitch wheel to Osc. 2 pitch, but the touchpad can be non-continuous if you like.

An example of this is the "Running Bass" patch. I think it's the first one on th AE bank. You can latch the gate on, let the LFO/Osc. 3 control the rhythm. Then you can play one note with the keyboard, and the second note on the touchpad.

OysterRock · Post by **OysterRock** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:11 pm

I can make my Voyager sound like a robot cat vomiting using the touchpad. Try that on any other synth!

Sweep · Post by **Sweep** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:18 am

OysterRock wrote:I can make my Voyager sound like a robot cat vomiting using the touchpad. Try that on any other synth!

Makes a change from the more classic patches like `hamster farting down a trumpet' or `ostrich fighting with a vacuum cleaner.'

On another site we had a thread with some really fun suggestions for synth patch names.

The Unknown · Post by **The Unknown** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:49 am

Do robot cats eat electric mice? It's just that I've never seen one vomit.

OysterRock · Post by **OysterRock** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 5:05 am

The Unknown wrote:Do robot cats eat electric mice? It's just that I've never seen one vomit.

That's a good question. I have an electro-mouse patch, too.

The Unknown · Post by **The Unknown** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:24 am

Don't let the robot cat patch eat it, whatever you do - you'll have vomit all over the place. Not nice!

redeyeflight · Post by **redeyeflight** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:04 am

The voyager is an expensive propsition...and it's MONO! That's the one thing I'd fault it for. However, after owning it for about a year now I can say I am constantly finding new and useable sounds on it (and I haven't even gotten the control expander yet). The voyager is absolutely the best live preformance analog synthesizer out there...nothing can touch it, especially for bass tones. If you ever get a chance, plug the voyager into a decent bass amp and have at it!! You will not believe the subs coming out of this thing! I've been very pleassed with my voyager and it has yet to break down on me (knock on wood). I will say that I think the software inside the machiene is really pretty crappy!!! I mean, analog synths shouldn't have submenus and tiny LCD screens...really annoying. But hey, nothing's perfect and the voyager comes pretty close. I see some people have had some bad experiences with the voyager...that's really too bad. There's obviously a couple of lemons out there but every voyager I've played has been great and worked flawlessly!

P0LYM00G · Post by **P0LYM00G** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:54 pm

I think you should forget the Voyager and look into this one.

cageswood · Post by **cageswood** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:56 pm

Interesting, what on earth is it?The mod/pitch levers look strange.

The Unknown · Post by **The Unknown** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:57 pm

Magnificent looking beast. Pray, tell us more!

Zecross · Post by **Zecross** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:16 pm

Hello,

It could come from the '80s but when I look to the blue screen I think it's not this old.
Knobs are Moog like and switches are Jupiter or Prophet like!
What is it?
Please, tell us more...

OysterRock · Post by **OysterRock** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:38 pm

Ah, yes. The mythic SMS 2000. Is it real, is it fake? Is it old, is it new? Oh, the excitement.

If its real, that's one hell of a marketing ploy.

The Unknown · Post by **The Unknown** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:14 pm

Well, if it isn't real, it certainly should be, by the look of it!

ARP · Post by **ARP** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:26 pm

This picture along with ohers surfaced on the AH newsgroup a few months ago..you can check the archives for more info...The final concensus was that it was a hoax..if you read some of the archives you'll come to the same conclusion...what a shame, it certainly looks dangerous.

P0LYM00G · Post by **P0LYM00G** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:49 am

I don't know anymore than anybody else, but here is a picture of another one.