Voyager blank patch sheet

[Sweep]

I find this hard to believe, and I keep thinking I must be missing something, but I can't find a blank patch sheet for the Voyager (performer edition in my case) anywhere on line.

I have blank charts at the back of the manual, but I've run out of the copies I made and I can't find the file I used to stored my scan of the patch sheet. My scanner stopped working recently and the new one I bought will only scan text because it only works with some stupid proprietary software provided by Hewlett Packard.

Google doesn't bring up a blank patch sheet however much I look.

The only Voyager manual online is a different one from the one I got with mine. It's got 116 pages but not one of them has a blank patch sheet.

The Moog website doesn't seem to have one either. At least, neither a manual search nor a text field search produced one.

I'm stunned, basically. It's very peculiar.

Does anyone have a blank patch sheet in a scanned file they can send me?

- thanks

[Ledbetter]

These days you can just take a picture with your smart phone.

[Sweep]

But you can't write performance notes on a photograph, and it's never as clear as a patch sheet anyway.

[GregAE]

I uploaded blank patch sheets for the Voyager Old School back in 2009:

KnobTweak > files > Voyager >Voyager Old School Patches > OS Patch Template.jpg

There are a couple of cool Voyager patches (on patch sheets) in that same directory.


- Greg

[Sweep]

Thanks, Greg. I've put in a membership request so I can download that.

I'll also get a proper scanner, or try to find someone in Hewlett Packard tech support who speaks English to see if there's any proper software available for the one I unsuspectingly bought to replace my old one. It's clear I really need one.

As this very odd experience has highlighted that there is no freely available Voyager patch sheet download on the entire Internet, though, I think I'll put one on my website when I get a scanner that works properly.

[Ledbetter]

http://www.fantasyjackpalance.com/fjp/s ... imoog.html

And

http://www.fantasyjackpalance.com/fjp/s ... rt-big.gif

Note that this for a MiniMoog.

[thealien666]

Voyager front panel is quite different from the Minimoog... But thanks anyway, you were only trying to help and I'm sure it's appreciated Ledbetter.

[Sweep]

Thanks for the MiniMoog links. They'll no doubt be useful for people on here.

As sod's law would have it, when I looked for the scan I made years ago of the Voyager patch sheet I found all sorts of stuff, including those Mini sheets, which I'd downloaded before - everything but the one file I needed, which somehow escaped being backed up before the PC it was on died.

When I needed ARP patch sheets from decades ago I found them online in a couple of minutes. Everything seems to be out there except the Voyager, despite it's being still available. (Well, nearly everything. I've never seen an EMS Synthi 100 patch sheet, which I'd like to look at out of curiosity. The standard VCS3/Synthi A `dopesheet' is of course readily available.)

I accessed the Oldschool patch sheet referenced by Greg, for which I'm very grateful. It should do the job nicely, and at some point I'll re-scan my Voyager manual sheet when I get a proper scanner again.

Before now I've created patch sheets using Microsoft Paintbrush, which works but would be a bit messy for something as complex as the Voyager. It's better suited to small devices and in particular combinations of different small devices.

Despite the Voyager's memory locations I still find patch sheets useful because it's possible to make notes on them and because the actual knob positions are immediately clear, which they aren't when you load a patch from memory. And as my Voyager is old enough to only have 128 memories I really need additional patch information. But however many memories it might have I realise I'd still find a sheet helpful, as I can see at a glance how I've constructed a patch and what sort of tweaking I found helpful. As I use the Voyager for modulated stuff much more than for leads and so on, any patch I load from memory tends to be a starting point that can go in any number of directions, and notes on what results I've had can be very useful. Although I know the Voyager pretty well by now and its architecture isn't massively complicated, a lot of good things can happen in all sorts of directions by developing a complex patch while playing, and a written sheet is the ideal companion for that kind of approach to using the instrument.

[EMwhite]

Don't forget the best Flash app of all time; the OS Patch Memorizer; grab it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gxm4jl33budl5 ... 20v3.1.exe

(if that doesn't work you, PM me)

[EMwhite]

OR, if you are Mac only, this ought to do the trick;

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wif49i98q5kbi ... 20v3.1.zip

[Cenydd Ros]

I just made my own (an hour ago) using Paint on my PC. It took me maybe 20 minutes.

That way I can just make a copy of the Paint file for every patch I might want save, write in the value settings in each of the dials using the program, color the switches on/off using the program, and add any notes I want using the program. Everything nicely type written that way.

I can keep them in a folder on my desktop, change them at will, and print them if I need to - or download them to websites.

Now I just need to make some patches.
Actually, I've worked out three pretty good ones in the last two days.