Moog Music Forum

I hadn't really thought about getting a sequencer for use with my AE but have been using the one in my Source more often. These Source's are great little Moogs and highly underrated IMO.

Yes, the Source is a great synth, although it colour theme is a bit vintage now. The user-interface also looks bad if compared to a Minimoog or a Voyager. But on the other hand, you can edit a patch without a jump in parameters due to the endless rotary knob. And if you listen closely, that then the also used more steps then the shown data in the display of the source or now on the Voyager:
the Source used on some parameters more then the shown 100 possible parameter values. just fine tune the detune and listen closely. There are more value steps heard then shown. The same is true for the 8 bit (0 to 255) values shown on the Voyager while using 14 bit (0 to 16383).
Back to the original question:
I am using a Manikin Schrittmacher here in my set up. But it would not make that mauch sense to use such a 32 line beast for a single Voyager only. And the price tag is about the double of the P3 sequencer. But the interface of the Schrittmacher is way better to my personal taste.

i use a yamaha qy70 synced to a fostex vf80 harddisk recorder. works fine both for real songs as well as for repeating loops and stuff.

sometimes i play sequences by hand, without any sequencing. a fine line between sounding crap and cool.

usually i take to reserving 2 to 3 mono tracks for drum box-like rhythms i make with the voyager and the qy70 used as a sequencer. for that, i invent one bass drum sound, one noise generator "snare" and one "byoo" zap or something on the moog.

for bubbling sequences i like the delay from the tc electronics m300, and the reverbs in there, too. very simple and user friendly. lines up well with the moog. has a nice sound as well that makes sequencing a joy. and not too expensive either.

for sequences, i find that using 1 oscillator is just fine. 2 is brilliant. 3 is tricky for my kind of music and can be a bit too thick. depends on what else is going on in the track.

beeble booble beeble booble beeble booble ...

I use a frostwave fat controller, cubase, as well as a future-retro revolution.

I use a Yamaha RM1X. It's certainly not as versatile as something like a P3, but it gets me by for the time being.

used to use a futureretro mobius with my voyager, these made for a nice pair, imvho.

these days, i use either an old oberheim cyclone arpeggiator or my little technosaurus cyclodon. if i'm hooked up to SW sequencers, ableton 5 or Logic. my favorite is ableton, very easy to whack together variations on loops and draw in modulation values and such.


i consider getting another mobius from time to time - it is a well thought out sequencer, and it looks very cool with the voyager. initially i thought the up/down button way of entering note data was tedious, but in practice it wasn't much trouble at all. you get lots of flashing lights with the sequencer also, which is always a good thing to have on a sequencer. :)

lx

I use P3 in my setup. But I'm still learning it as it's quite a deep sequencer. I did look at the Schrittmacher, the user interface is easy to navigate through but I went with the P3 because of it's features which is deeper than the Schrittmacher I believe.

monad

I also use the Cyclodon quite a lot, but since I enjoy playing the Voyager so much I tend not to use it sequencer driven.

I like the sequencers in the Andromeda - great for improvising (I've even been known to slip playing cards under keys to keep triggered sequences going!).

When it comes down to actually formalising anything though, it's back to Cubase 5 (laptop PC) or Logic 7 (desktop Mac) for me. Only then am I likely to drive the Voyager (then I can record to Audio and repeat).

I use the FR mobius and can't say enough good things about it. Here's a song I made with it. Tell me what you think:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... D=47899403

I really like it! what synth did you use with the Mobius?

Ahh, Sequencers! Maybe Sequencers are my favourite Toys!

First at all, i would make a diffrence between analog CV/Gate Sequencer and Midi-only Sequencers. Well, good that the voyager understand both languages.

CV/Gate Sequencers i use:
Doepfer MAQ 16/3 and Schaltwerk (Schaltwerk more for Drums etc...)
Future Retro 777

Midisequencer:
Yamaha QY700
P3

Sequencer with own soundengine (but you can use them to let the voyager swing):
Elektron Monomochine
Akai MPC2000XL
Korg MS2000
and
SPECTRALIS (as soosn as OS1.0 arrived)

My heart bumping for real analog sequencer with CV/Gate if it comes to sequence the voyager. I feel more moogish if i do it like that, so i use the Doepfer MAQ mostly together with the voyager...

I really like it! what synth did you use with the Mobius?

I used my Voyager Performer. I love using the mobius via cv. If you hook it up using cv it will transpose the sequence by just hitting the different keys on the Moog. Also if you turn the hold function off it works as an arpeggiator. Makes me sound like a real keyboard player. Also I noticed that if you hook up the other Mobius cv out to the LFO rate input on the back of the Moog it will sync the timing to the LFO. Way cool. This is how I have it set up: PC midi clock to Midi in on the Mobius, CV + gate out from Mobius to Moog, 2nd cv out from Mobius to LFO rate on back of moog. I have seen allot of folks asking how to sync thier LFO to their Midi stuff. This is the best way I have found to do it. This is probobly all basic stuff for all the synth gurus on this site. Thought I would mention this for all newer users like me.

Hi - I was a Steinberg user for 20 years but about 6 months ago I discovered Ableton Live. Truly awesome musical instrument, make Cubase looks as musical as a brick..

Also mess around with my fr777 and tb303 for driving things (my 303 has the MidiBass MIDI in/out kit which rocks).

Im using ableton live 5.0.3 and an rme hammerfall hdsp interface

It works great.

Sometimes cubase....sounds better than live...