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Is it possible to control the voyager by playing my guitar thru it?? Do I have to purchase one of the moogerfooger devices to act as a controller???
Any help would be appreciated

You can't do it with a Voyager. My MS20 can do this although never tried with a guitar. Maybe someone else can comment on the Moogfooger device as Im not aware of it..

Good luck,

You need one of those guitar to midi interface to controll the Voyager by a guitar. The audio input of the Voyager is for playing external signal through the Voyager's filters and VCA. But keep in mind you have to trigger the VCA or set it to external, otherwise no sound will come out of the Voyager.

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You need one of those guitar to midi interface to controll the Voyager by a guitar. The audio input of the Voyager is for playing external signal through the Voyager's filters and VCA. But keep in mind you have to trigger the VCA or set it to external, otherwise no sound will come out of the Voyager.

Yep, you'll need a guitar-to-MIDI setup, like a Roland GR33 or some such.

Keep in mind that a guitar is 6-note polyphonic, while the Voyager is 1-note. MIDI guitars generally send out MIDI data on a separate channel for each string (like, your E string sends MIDI channel 1 -for example- your A string sends on MIDI channel 2, and so on.) This is so that pitch bends can be accurately tracked.

This gives you a cool opportunity: You can set up your low E and A strings to transmit on the same channel. Set the Voyager to receive on this channel, and set the Voyager to Low-note priority. Now you have a synth bass that plays along with the root notes of your chords (and ignores the high licks you do on the upper strings).

Or you could feed the Voyager the high E, B and G strings, and set it to high-note priority. Now you can do rhythmic comping on the low strings and add a "gangsta whine" over the top. Dope!

-Hoax

I just got a gr-33. I'd played guitar since I was a kid, and the keyboard is relatively new to me, so I had to try the midi conversion.

If you read the reviews on it, they all say the same thing (and they're right) -- it works, but it's not without problems. While the tracking for the onboard synth sounds is really pretty good, tracking other midi devices is less forgiving.

Your technique has to be very clean, otherwise you'll get strange bleeps and wrong notes. I don't think it would really work out live, since you have to play so carefully.

For most, it's probably not worth it, but I'm enjoying it. I can come up with phrases much easier on the guitar, and I just edit a bit when I want to record them.

Also, I got Roland's pickup, and I understand now that there is another type (piezo I think) that is supposed to track much better, so I'll eventually try that.

see this thread:

http://www.moogmusic.com/forum/viewtopi ... light=axon