Moog Music Forum

Question could be : how many Voyager useful, musical, inspiring, rewarding sounds ? many IMHO !

An instrument may be used as a toy but i think it would be wrong to assume that an instrument is a toy just because you don't use it as such. Playing, composing, whatever you do with it is fine. Toys are instruments for fun are they not? No need to get into semantics....

MC wrote:Consider

14 bit resolution per knob = 16384

The voyager has 24 of these knobs so a factorial of 24 to 16384 will give us a starting number

Then you need factorial of the rotary switches and their positions (including the PGM sources/destinations)

Then you need to factor in the variations offered by the touchpad X/Y/Z

The touchpad is pure analog not discrete.

Methinks the answer is damn near infinity

I don't have the tools for doing factorials, anybody want to take this on?

I thought there was continuous sweeping of parameters, right? the bit depth is only for digitizing presets, right?

when I mentioned the Casio VL1-Tone I used this unit just as an example on how many different sounds may be accessable. And I'm a little surprised on the emotional reactions about the Casio. Yes it is a toy - at least it looks very much so - but it is also a real musical instrument. And I think Stefan Remmler from Trio got quite a good income in the 80's because he was using this toy with his smash hit Da Da Da (some of the older guys may remember it).
In my opinion anything which brings the air into vibration with frequencies between 20Hz and 20kHz can be used for making music. But the human factor is (still) the most important part.
And we can also listen to John Cages music for toy piano (e.g. Suite for Toy Piano (1948) or Works for Piano, Prepered Piano and Toy Piano (1933-1952). Why not?

i can agree with that.