Can you use Voyager as a controller keyboard

metrowilliams · Post by **metrowilliams** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 7:32 am

Hey people.

This is a complete newbie question but here goes.

As well as using this beautiful keyboard for its own amazing sounds, could I also use the Voyager as a controller keyboard for my soft synths or my MPC4000 (i.e turn off the Voyager's internal sounds - local off - and use it to trigger other sound sources - soft synths, samples in mpc4000).

Any help would be much appreciated.

Peace

Metro

Qwave · Post by **Qwave** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 8:23 am

Yes, this is possible.
And while playing a sof or hardware synth from the Voyagers keyboard, you could stil play the Voyager external by a sequencer.
In case you use a software with MIDI tru function, be sure to tern the merging of ingoing (tho the Voyager) MIDI with the Voyager's outgoing data to OFF in the Master Functions 1.3 menu item.
The only known problem is the scalling of the velocity and after touch of the outgoing MIDI data stream the Voyager generates. It's a known hardware bug, that the after touch is rather close to min or max. But impossible to use in the midrange. But it does work for rather on-off style articulations.

metrowilliams · Post by **metrowilliams** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 12:53 pm

Thanks Qwave

So what you are saying is that while I am using the Voyager to play a software synth or hardware sound module, I can have a sequencer playing the Voyager's sounds?

Do you know if the manufacturers plan to fix the known hardware bug you describe?

Peace

metro

Qwave · Post by **Qwave** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 1:14 pm

So what you are saying is that while I am using the Voyager to play a software synth or hardware sound module, I can have a sequencer playing the Voyager's sounds?

Right !
Just make sure the MIDI merging of the Voyager is turned off.
You can even transpose the ingoing and outgoing MIDI note numbers from within the Master menue of the Voyager.

I haven't heard a word from Moog Music about the aftertouch or Velocity scalling yet. And I think there aren't many Voyager users using the Voyager as a little master keyboard in their setup.

The Unknown · Post by **The Unknown** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 1:44 pm

As a matter of interest here, is it possible to play chords on a soft synth, or indeed, any other polyphonic machine, using Voyager as a controller?

Boeing 737-400 · Post by **Boeing 737-400** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 4:05 pm

The Unknown wrote:As a matter of interest here, is it possible to play chords on a soft synth, or indeed, any other polyphonic machine, using Voyager as a controller?

Yes.

Cruel Hoax · Post by **Cruel Hoax** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 12:04 am

One thing that's really cool to do is to send the MIDI out of the Voyager to another synth - a bright, digital, non-analog sounding synth. (I use a TG33.) Then route the audio out of the other synth to the Voyager's external input. Turn the External Input on and up in the mixer, and there you go!

You can put the other synth in mono mode, to mimic the V-ger. Or you can put it in poly mode and put the V-ger in Low Note Priority, so the other synth plays chords and the Voyager holds down the bass.

-Hoax