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Just saw this on Harmony Central, so I've done a cut and paste. This will be very cool : )


Moog Announces Software Editor for Minimoog Voyager

Create, Manage, and Back Up Presets, Banks, and Patches
July 28, 2004

Moog Music announced a new software editor for the Minimoog Voyager, to be available this summer. The cross platform (Mac/PC) Editor allows instant access to the Voyager's presets, banks, patches, and edit mode parameters through the computer's MIDI interface.

Voyager owners will be able to quickly assemble preset banks, categorize and archive presets, create random patches, and access edit mode parameters to plumb the depths of the Voyager's synthesis capabilities. The interface allows the user to load a preset and examine its settings to understand how presets are achieved, as all the front panel controls and the parameters in edit mode can be viewed and edited on the main display screen.

The editor gives fast access to edit mode parameters, including Pitch Bend amount, PGM Mod Buss Source, Destination, Shaping, Keyboard Modes, Trigger Modes, Filter Poles, Envelope Gate Sources, Touch Surface Destinations, Pot Mapping, Clock Divider, and Preset Name. Making a change to any of the controls on the editor's display automatically sends the change to the Voyager. The resolution of the continuous controls can be set to 16-bit resolution for very precise editing.

Priced at $79, the editor will be available for download from Moog Music's web site soon.

YAY!!!
Any screenshots or more info out there anywhere?
I'll be happy just to be able to easily assemble banks in a logical order.
Plus, the randomizer thing should be cool. I have a microkorg and it has a patch editor with the randomize feature. It really helps to get the creative juices flowing.
A side note: Is anyone out there trading patches? I've seen a couple of sites that are made for uploading patches for other synths, but I've never found any for the Voyager. If anyone wants to trade patches, let me know. I have quite a few good ones...

FreqOut

...for those of you who prefer to use a mouse and a monitor, as opposed to Big Freakin' Knobs!

Just develop a filter glide fix, Moog, and I'll be happy. I don't mind turning knobs. The callouses I've developed by manipulating those big heavy rough control devices have only made me more respectful and subsevient toward those analog devices which Must Be Manipulated By The Fingers.

Fix the filter glide problem! Why develop an editor for one of the most intuitive synths out there? What's better than knobs - parameter boxes? Hint: No.

Man, if my Voyager really worked, it'd be the cat's pajamas. It'd be the possum's smoking jacket. Hell, it'd be the giant tree sloth's silk thong.

Pleasxe make this available, even if it's a paid upgrade!

-Hoax

I must admit, I can't really see the value in a software editor for a machine with such an intuitive front panel. Sorry and all that, but I can't!

I can see the urge to get a sound manager for the Voyager, because of missing direct access to patches via pressing two or three digest numbers. An manager like this would allow live performing musicians to put the needed sounds in the right sequence. And then just use the up or down buttons to navigate to their sets sounds without time consumpting rearranging of the patches by copying them to the needed patch slots number using the Voyager's UI.
And while coding an manager like this, why not add the ability to edit the patch names faster and easier?
If the software would add an real remote editor I wouldn't mind this function. But I don't think a great synth like the Voyager need remote programming. At least unless there is no rack knobless rack version available...

Hello,

In addition, SoundTower is also developing a software-based editor for the Voyager.

regards

I have to go with Cruel Hoex here.
What about giving us something really useable, like a filter portamento fix. I'm not going to harp over the same issue time and time again, and I appreciate that moogmusic is offering a software product to go with the voyager. I'm sure that for some people it will be very useful.
However, the reason I bought voyager was so I could have a "hands-on" synthesizer, not moving my computer mouse over some 2-D software graphics... I have to admit that the idea of controlling my Voyager via a computer, is almost sacrilege to me...
I guess I just love turning those wonderful knobs...

For the Moog 'marketed' librarian/editor mentioned here - will a Voyager o/s upgrade be required to fully support it ?

Will updates to the librarian/editor be 'free' ?

Is there any chance that the full interface spec will be made available ?

I'm currently in two minds about the usefulness of a 'patch editor'. Although a patch 'librarian' is a much needed facility (I've got my home-grown version of one half done although I'm lacking enough info from Moog/Rudi to allow me to finish it).

However.....where a software patch editor CAN come into its own is in helping those unfamiliar with analogue synthesis to understand the internal sound and control paths of the instrument. In order to do this though the s/w editor needs to present the graphical information in an appropriate way.

I really hope that the Moog offering takes this approach, rather than just presenting a page of "disassociated" controls that goes no further to help those new to the field in their understanding of the instrument.


Kevin Bowden

Bedfordshire
UK

Her's Moog's link with info about the the editor: http://www.moogmusic.com/detail.php?main_product_id=132

Difficult to tell from the 'screenshot' available but the offering appears to look like your typical patch editor. Still, it will give 'a different view' of the instrument I suppose.

From what I have read here and elsewhere a lot of people seem to be buying the Voyager as their first-time venture into analogue synthesis.

With this in mind I would like to have seen something perhaps slightly more graphical that defined/indicated the associations between the various sound and control sources - although I'm not saying that the application won't do that as it is difficult to judge from the info available at this stage how it will actually present the information.

All I'm saying is that "just another patch editor" will not really help these people understand the instrument more.

Hello Moogers,
well, yes, i would not use the editor much for soundcreations, maybe more the params of the menu, but one reason for buying the Voyager was the knobs!
But the editor would be very helpfull for creating our own favorite Soundbanks!
This is a very handsome thing. Maybe it is a bit expencieve if you use it only for that, but if it is well supported and stable...., than it's worth it.

By the way, don't like to make bad adv, but i can't recommend Soundtower Product.