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i love moog tones, but so often i hear the same old sounds coming from people's moogs. I keep hearing the same bass tones and prog sounding leads over and over again, and I want to flex my voyager's muscle and get more minimal tones that aren't often associated with the moog brand.

below is a song that i love. let me know if these types of sounds can be attained on a voyager, or if you've attained something similar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JaLsK2VQ8g

Listen to this and read the description...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5N57vmoBcLY

that is unbelievably easy. you just have to think outside the box. First if you want to diverge from the "moog sound" change the filter pole. Do things like envelope and S+H the oscillator sync at the same time, bring the mixer signal out and process it before sending it back out, use effects, mix the filters to get a bandpass, tune the oscillators to musical intervals,etc. Just get away from what I call "preset thinking", and the options are endless. I only have a model D and some MF's and never run out of new things.

archer wrote:i love moog tones, but so often i hear the same old sounds coming from people's moogs. I keep hearing the same bass tones and prog sounding leads over and over again, and I want to flex my voyager's muscle and get more minimal tones that aren't often associated with the moog brand.

These aren't exactly the sounds you are looking for, based on the song you posted, but I've always like this demo which is refreshingly free of the "same old sounds".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agFgMYp97yY

I like these non-traditional (for a Moog) sounds too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A1ojMwmLpE

No offense, but burying the wonderful warm euphonic tone of the model D in tons of ugly digital processing isn't exactly ideal to me. The first clip I have always detested, not just because it is blasphemy, but the fat analog tone turns to DX7-like digital decay.

unfiltered37 wrote:No offense

None taken, and I meant no offense to those who prefer "traditional Moog" tones. I love them myself, just not for all situations.

one thing I've been doing lately to deviate from the norm is using oscillator 3 as my fundamental oscillator then have it modulate oscillator 1 via the front panel switch ( exponential fm I believe?) Then sync oscillator 2 to oscillator 1, keeping the volume of 1 and 2 low so they just add harmonics to oscillator 3. then experiment with different wave form settings and different pitch modulation for oscillators 1 and 2.
and yes filter pole settings make a huge difference.