Voyager OS Innyrds

Prime NL · Post by **Prime NL** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:54 am

RichardK wrote:I like those jack leads, nice and low profile, look like they'd put less stress on the sockets. Where'd you get ones like that? They'd make me less worried about the cheapo jacks in the Virus...

Those jack leads are from RL's test setup.....better ask him about where or what brand to get them.

RL · Post by RL » Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:35 pm

RichardK wrote:
Prime NL wrote:It is not a picture from the OS....but i took this picture when i visited RL for my Voyager SE mod upgrade....
I like those jack leads, nice and low profile, look like they'd put less stress on the sockets. Where'd you get ones like that? They'd make me less worried about the cheapo jacks in the Virus...

Hi Richard,
these leads are made by myself and the phone plugs are the cheapest stuff which you can get to be sure that the Voyager even works with those

DIGITAL SCREAMS · Post by **DIGITAL SCREAMS** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 5:38 pm

Thanks for posting these pictures - very interesting!

Can i just ask....

What are the maggot shapped things? transistors?

Why do some of the capacitors bend over like that?

What exactly are the black chips? IC's? Like a curtis chip?

Is this design considered to be discrete or chippy?

Thanks

DS

EricK · Post by **EricK** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:18 pm

I don't know...you can look on a basic electronics site to find out what each one is.

But NO THEY AREN"T CURTIS CHIPS. lolol

Curtis doesn't take voyages.

Voltor07 · Post by **Voltor07** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:33 pm

The yellow maggot-shaped things look to be resistor banks. Why, I dunno, as there seem to be plenty of resistors already. The IC's are various things, like op-amps and the like. THERE ARE NO CURTIS CHIPS IN A MOOG!

How DARE you spew such filth on these forums!

These circuits which you see are not discrete transistor, otherwise there would be no IC's.

None of the capacitors are bent over, so I dunno what you mean, though a couple are leaning due to the crowding of components. The black D-shaped dots are transistors. Hope this clears things up a bit.

Curtis Chips...geez.

EricK · Post by **EricK** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 12:47 am

Calm down man he didn't know lolololol.

Curtis Chips do live in the memorymoog.

Mostly in the prophet series...I think DSI pioneered that technology.

Eric

Voltor07 · Post by **Voltor07** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:34 am

Yeah...sorry, DIGITAL SCREAMS...I get carried away sometimes.

DSI didn't actually pioneer the use of Curtis chips, but they were pioneers of DCO's, I believe. Curtis used to make stuff for all kinds of sound synthesis applications.

I was going to replace the filter chips in my Farfisa with SSM-2040's, but discovered someone beat me to it! Which would explain the difference in sound between the organ when it was new and the present day. The 2040, IMHO, was the last great chip to be designed by Curtis. After that, they started making crap. Again, just my opinion.

Carey M · Post by **Carey M** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:54 am

Voltor07 wrote:I was going to replace the filter chips in my Farfisa with SSM-2040's, but discovered someone beat me to it! Which would explain the difference in sound between the organ when it was new and the present day. The 2040, IMHO, was the last great chip to be designed by Curtis. After that, they started making crap. Again, just my opinion.

SSM2040 is not a Curtis chip. SSM stands for Solid State Music.

Many of the ICs in the Voyager's analogue board are transistor arrays, several transistors stuck on one IC.

- CM

Voltor07 · Post by **Voltor07** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:15 am

Carey M wrote: SSM2040 is not a Curtis chip. SSM stands for Solid State Music.

Many of the ICs in the Voyager's analogue board are transistor arrays, several transistors stuck on one IC.

- CM

Cool! Thanks for that info! For some reason, SSM always comes up as Curtis in Google searches. Did one own the other at one time?

latigid on · Post by **latigid on** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:21 am

Earlier Rev Prophets had SSM chips, later ones CEM (Curtis).

Carey M · Post by **Carey M** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:49 am

Emulator archive has a nice little story about SSM.

- CM

DIGITAL SCREAMS · Post by **DIGITAL SCREAMS** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:04 am

Thanks guys for your comments....thats cleared that up.

To be honest, I did know from the outset that the voyager didnt use curtis chips.....I was being a little facetious lol

DS

acorkos · Post by **acorkos** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 11:27 am

i heard chuck norris uses curtis chips

Prime NL · Post by **Prime NL** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 2:09 pm

The joke is getting as old as chuck norris...

Voltor07 · Post by **Voltor07** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 2:52 pm

acorkos wrote:i heard chuck norris uses curtis chips

Chuck Norris eats them with french onion dip.