Moog Voyager Anniversery OR Korg MS-20

joam · Post by **joam** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 4:17 am

Hi ...

I am about to purchase my first monophonic synth, I am just woundering if the is a great difference in sound quality and usability comparing the moog voyager and the korg ms20.

Money is no object, I just want the best sound!

The ms20 I am looking at is $1000 but the voyager is $2799.

Please let me know your opinion. This might be stupid to ask on a moog forum... Oh well what the hell.

Thanks

Qwave · Post by **Qwave** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:56 am

The Voyager win in terms of bass and lead sounds. Also in real time performance controls. And you get a patch memory on the Voyager. The MS20 is very different. Changing a sound to another needs making notes and fine tune the sounds before they sound like the sound before you made another sound on it. That's not ideal if you have only a few synth o stage or limited studio time available. But the MS20 has way more possibilities for manupulating external sounds due to its envelope follower, pitch-to-voltage converter (even though its not perfect at all).
I choosed the Voyager.

But it all depends on your needs and taste.

goldphinga · Post by **goldphinga** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:56 am

Hey! The MS20 is a rawkus,brash machine that is great for piercing leads, sound fx and its crazy filters which can really overdrive and self oscillate in a way not many other synths will. This because the ms2 has 12db per octave filter.

The MS20's weakest area is that it is not great at big phat basses. Its general sound is much thinner and weaker than any moog around. However it does sound great, its just a different sound but still a classic machine in its own right. If you want a good for everything monosynth though, the MS20 is not the one. The Voyager is much smoother and warmer though is still capable of extreme fx like the MS20, particularly if you experiment with the different filter pole models. Then take into account the voyagers patch storage, midi, touchpad etc and the voyagers price seems pretty reasonable (though of course still a lot of cash!)

My advice would be to try both, but i feel the MS20 wouldn't be a good enough all rounder.

joam · Post by **joam** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:37 am

Well I really want a synth that has evtremely fat bass with a warm tone. I guess maybe I should really be comparing the voyager to the SE- ATC-X.
Just when looking on the net at say Vinatge Synth site they give you an example of what songs in the past it has been used on. The MS-20 was used in a track by Mr Oizo - Flat beats if I remember correctly. The bass in that song sounded fat but who know what other processing was done to get that sound.

I dont mind spending the money on the voyager because many peple have told me that they keep their value and it's an investement.

Well just had to make sure because after reading the earlier post titled "Is the the voyager really worth the money" there were mixed feelings about making the purchase.

I going to drive in and get one, my order is going in tomorrow.

Thanks a bunch

dejon · Post by **dejon** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:20 am

The mixed reveiws of the Voyager seems to be more of a price issuse than a feature or sound issuse. I see alot of reveiws stating it's to expensive for a mono synth. Just try the Voyager for yourself and decide if it's for you based only on what your looking for in a synth.

Demokid · Post by **Demokid** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:52 pm

If I was a newbi to analogue sizers then I’ll choose the Voyager since it is easier to control. The MS20 is a really fun sizer… And it can actually do some pretty nice basses. If you let the high-pass filter self-oscillate and control it using keyboard CV (from patch panel) you can get some really deep basses, strings and more.

Regards
Demokid

Demokid · Post by **Demokid** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:56 am

joam wrote:Well I really want a synth that has evtremely fat bass with a warm tone. I guess maybe I should really be comparing the voyager to the SE- ATC-X.

Don’t be fooled by the Model D:ish looks of the Studio Electronics ATC(X). It doesn’t sound at all like a Moog. The VCO’s and filter doesn’t sound like moog and the software envelopes are crap, too slow for hard basses.

Regards
Demokid

Nouveau · Post by **Nouveau** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 8:39 pm

Well, it definitely depends on what you're after. I would tell you to go with the Moog, simply because you'll have more options, fatter basses, midi (although you could retrofit the MS20), and... ...well, dammit, it's a moog.
I will agree that you can get some great gritty, nasty leads out of the MS20, as well as some incredible and twisted sound effects... ...so...

...have you got four thousand bucks sitting around? You should really just get the both of them...