Voyager LFO
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Noxiousfish
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Voyager LFO
Hello. I have owned a voyager for a year or so now and I am very interested in figuring out why certain things work the way they do in some Presets. Specifically, i would like to figure out how in some presets the lfo rate increases as you ascend in pitch. Is this something that you need to control from the control panel, or is this able to be recreated through turning different knobs. I would also like to figure out how some presets have a wave signal that is unaffected by the LFO knob and continues to modulate regardless of where you set it to. Lastly, i would like to figure out how some of the presets mimic something of an arpeggiator. Is the Voyager not 100% analog? I feel like some of these presets are maybe using some sort of computer chip to achieve the sounds that they create because i am unable to change some qualities of the sound through knob turning. Any help is greatly appreciated and i apologize for my ignorance. I am primarily an acoustic musician so this world is completely alien to me. I look forward to learning though.
Re: Voyager LFO
The answers to some of your questions (for example, LFO increasing as you ascend pitch) is in the Voyager's Pot Mapping function. You can learn all about it from the Pot Mapping document on KnobTweak, located here:
KnobTweak > Files > Voyager > Pot Mapping.pdf
The LFO speed up trick pot map is example 4 on page 5.
To figure out what's going on with any given patch, go to the Edit screen and scroll through the menus to see how things are set up. Each patch will have a different configuration. Studying a few of these should help you to understand why things work the way they do.
As for the arpeggiator question - which preset are you referring to? The Voyager has no built-in appegiator, but there are some clever programming tricks that can fool you into thinking that more must be happening behind the scenes than actually is.
If you haven't already done so, read the manual all the way through. There are additional articles on KnobTweak that delve deeper into some subjects (like Pot Mapping) that you might find helpful. There are also some good books on the subject, including "Power Tools for Synthesizer Programming" by Jim Aiken (a personal favorite).
And then there's that Internet thingy...
KnobTweak > Files > Voyager > Pot Mapping.pdf
The LFO speed up trick pot map is example 4 on page 5.
To figure out what's going on with any given patch, go to the Edit screen and scroll through the menus to see how things are set up. Each patch will have a different configuration. Studying a few of these should help you to understand why things work the way they do.
As for the arpeggiator question - which preset are you referring to? The Voyager has no built-in appegiator, but there are some clever programming tricks that can fool you into thinking that more must be happening behind the scenes than actually is.
If you haven't already done so, read the manual all the way through. There are additional articles on KnobTweak that delve deeper into some subjects (like Pot Mapping) that you might find helpful. There are also some good books on the subject, including "Power Tools for Synthesizer Programming" by Jim Aiken (a personal favorite).
And then there's that Internet thingy...