Anyone play microtonal music on their Voyager?

madzub · Post by **madzub** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 1:08 pm

How do you do it? just using the pitch bend wheel, or do you use some kind of MIDI program that converts the keyboard into other scales? Do tell.

Qwave · Post by **Qwave** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 10:31 am

you could use to send the Voyager's MIDI out to a MIDI to CV unit Feed the CV out to the Voyagers pitch and/or filter input. And then use a variable resistor on the CV cable to tune the 1 Volt/octave to 0.5 Volt/octave or other values.
Ofcause, the Voyager should be set to "local off" in the Master Menue named "MIDI Local Keyb." (#1.2) while doing so.
Or use an old analog synth's keyboard and a resistor to play the Voyager.

sir_dss · Post by **sir_dss** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 11:12 pm

...or simply use the attenuators on the VX-351.

1.Run the Pitch CV OUT on the VX-351 to the In of the attenuator also on the VX-351.

2. From the OUT of the attenuator on the VX-351 go to the Pitch input on the back of the Voyager.

3. Adjust the attenuator pot to different fo how many notes you want in a octive.

Demokid · Post by **Demokid** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 10:01 am

micro what?

Regards
Demokid

FreqOut · Post by **FreqOut** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 4:25 pm

sir_dss wrote:3. Adjust the attenuator pot to different fo how many notes you want in a octive.

As long as the scale you're going for has even temperament, this should work.
If you're trying out a scale that uses meantone temperament, you will need to use some kind of software like "Scala", but you won't be able to play in real time. You'll have to process a midi file to accomplish the tuning, because the Voyager can't be tuned with different pitch intervals between keys.
Hope that helps!

FreqOut