Guide for Arturia V to Voyager patch conversion
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 3:03 pm
Recently several people have asked on how to get Arturia to Voyager patch duplication/conversion. My first foray into Moog was through Arturia. Having recently acquired the Voyager, I found I had to work to get things to sound close between the two. I must admit a little suprise at the differences at first, but soon realized that the voyager is a new unique Moog instrument. It is however capable of sounding close to the original mini and Arturia. Here is my list of steps to try to get a good match.
Select Arturia Patch of interest
1. Turn off Arturia unison, polyphony, delay, chorus, and matrix settings.
2. Audition each Arturia Oscillator one by one. If you have heavy filtering or envelope modulation turn them off or minimize. You want to get an idea about how each basic waveform component sounds like.
3. Try and recreate as close as possible each Arturia osc sound on the voyager. I have the each instrument on sepate midi ch. so I can play independently. I typically play the same note on each and go back and forth until happy with the sound.
4. Repeat this for each oscillator ( steps 2 and 3 ) The Arturia oscillator detuning is a weird. It displays %detune on fine (shift+knob) versus fraction semitone. Again if you work with one oscilator at a time you can "beat" the Voyager oscillator with the Arturia easily.
5. One by one add on filter settings, envelope parameters and anything else in the mixer section and control sections. Listen carefully after each addition/change between the two. The Arturia will display parameter values if you hold mouse over the knob.
Amount contour to filter: I sort a do like this. Arturia's goes from 1-10. Voyager's + goes 0-5. Try as a first step halving the Arturia value. I know this is not exact but it might get you close.
6. Note any Arturia matrix settings and dulpicate them with mod 1 or 2 voyager settings if possible and use pot mapping for the rest.
7. Use external effects processor to mimic any Arturia effects if you want the "full" Arturia sound. For Arturia Unison effect there is obviously no direct method but depending on the patch a little detune on the osc.s can still go a long way. I use garageband as an effects processor to great success.
Sometimes the above works very well and others not so. Play with the parameters and as aways "Trust your ears".
I hope this helps. All the usual disclaimers apply....
Stefan
Select Arturia Patch of interest
1. Turn off Arturia unison, polyphony, delay, chorus, and matrix settings.
2. Audition each Arturia Oscillator one by one. If you have heavy filtering or envelope modulation turn them off or minimize. You want to get an idea about how each basic waveform component sounds like.
3. Try and recreate as close as possible each Arturia osc sound on the voyager. I have the each instrument on sepate midi ch. so I can play independently. I typically play the same note on each and go back and forth until happy with the sound.
4. Repeat this for each oscillator ( steps 2 and 3 ) The Arturia oscillator detuning is a weird. It displays %detune on fine (shift+knob) versus fraction semitone. Again if you work with one oscilator at a time you can "beat" the Voyager oscillator with the Arturia easily.
5. One by one add on filter settings, envelope parameters and anything else in the mixer section and control sections. Listen carefully after each addition/change between the two. The Arturia will display parameter values if you hold mouse over the knob.
Amount contour to filter: I sort a do like this. Arturia's goes from 1-10. Voyager's + goes 0-5. Try as a first step halving the Arturia value. I know this is not exact but it might get you close.
6. Note any Arturia matrix settings and dulpicate them with mod 1 or 2 voyager settings if possible and use pot mapping for the rest.
7. Use external effects processor to mimic any Arturia effects if you want the "full" Arturia sound. For Arturia Unison effect there is obviously no direct method but depending on the patch a little detune on the osc.s can still go a long way. I use garageband as an effects processor to great success.
Sometimes the above works very well and others not so. Play with the parameters and as aways "Trust your ears".
I hope this helps. All the usual disclaimers apply....
Stefan