Moog Voyager AE - HELP!

joam · Post by **joam** » Sun May 08, 2005 11:17 pm

Hi Forum,

I just brought a Moog minimoog voyager AE signed brand new about 3 days ago.

I am experiencing a problem when feeding a audio drum loop into the external input to be processed by the VCO, filter and noise components.
When I have inputed the sound into the moog and start tweaking the knobs to find a good sound the volume level slowly drops away unitl it is unheard. It seems as if the power is being lost and the power supply is slowly discharging what power is left. Could I be overdriving the exteral input? Is this a safety feature to stop further damage on other electrical components? How can I prevent this from occuring?????

I love my moog and don't want to break anything, I hope it's not a fault.

Please can someone help me on this.

Regards,
joam

sir_dss · Post by **sir_dss** » Mon May 09, 2005 2:42 am

Make sure the gate switch is ON/EXT.

This way the envelope won't close the filter and/or VCA to a "no pass" filter

joam · Post by **joam** » Mon May 09, 2005 3:58 am

It was on that setting ON/EXTERNAL otherwise you would'nt of hear anything.

It just slowly faded out after about 10 minutes of use.

Any other suggestions????

Thanks

MC · Post by MC » Mon May 09, 2005 11:58 am

There is an EDIT menu item for VCF and VCA EG triggers, try looking there. I forget the options.

peter ripa · Post by **peter ripa** » Mon May 09, 2005 3:32 pm

thats the way it is.
its a bug, feature, flaw.
even at sustain and decay at max you have to retrigger it once in a while

either flip the switch to keyboard and hit a note now and then or switch the switch back and forth from external/on to trigger it

MC · Post by MC » Mon May 09, 2005 7:28 pm

peter ripa wrote:thats the way it is.
its a bug, feature, flaw.
even at sustain and decay at max you have to retrigger it once in a while

either flip the switch to keyboard and hit a note now and then or switch the switch back and forth from external/on to trigger it

User error, not a bug.

The sound will decay if the VCA SUSTAIN is less than max.

If you're processing external audio, the SUSTAIN has to be at MAX.

joam · Post by **joam** » Wed May 11, 2005 1:58 am

I contacted the technical support at moog music direct...

The fix is to have the volume env sustain below 8 and it won't fade away.
Also if feeding the external input while a pre defined preset is selected it can affect the sound produced , the best way to use the external input is to pre edit and set the moog back to its default inisilised parameters. I might note that once you have reset the moog you may have to refresh the switches and knobs to recognise the correct positions.

Thanks for all the help

Big thanks goes to Amos at Moog Music who helped me resolve this problem.

Cruel Hoax · Post by **Cruel Hoax** » Wed May 11, 2005 10:15 pm

You could set it up once correctly, and then save that as a preset (called "External Filtering" or some such, maybe). That'd save you the time of setting it up on each external-filtering session.

(Of course, it's good for ya to get nice and fast setting your Moog up manually, too!)

-Hoax