Moog Music Forum

I am new to the moog and have a couple of ametuer hour questions I am hoping someone can help me with.

First of all when using the external audio in, does a key on the keyboard have to be pressed to hear the result. I was hoping to use the moog as a signal processing tool as well and use it's filters, etc to process drums, vocs, guitars, other synths or whatever, but the only way I could seem to get it to respond and bear what I was feeding in was by pressing a key. Is therer any other way? It would be hard to play the guitar & hold a key at the same time.

Also, to use the mixer out/filter in does the effect I use have to have send capability? I am assuming so since it uses just one cable and the tip and ring to communicate back and forth but once again maybe I am missing something. I tied to use it with my MXR distortion which has no send and I seemed to get no change in signal so I assume this is the case.

Thanks again for any help.

mark

To answer your first question, you don't have to press a key, but rather turn the evelope gate from keyboard to swicth to on/external. I process guitar and bass through it and it's great.

As far as the mixer out, you're right about the tip and the ring, you can get one of these 1/4" specialty pluggs from lots of instrument shops, even radio shack, to get the sound to and from effect boxes etc.

so what you are saying is that with a tip ring sleeve plug I can process audio through any old stomp box? It does not have to have a dedicated send?

If so should the cable go to the input or output jack of the stomp box. Thanks.

mark

Bed-

You need to get a 1/4" stereo plug adapter that splits the signal to seperate outputs. Normally, this type of plug produces seperate Left and Right Outputs, but in this case it will be the Voyager's Send and Receive. With this adapter in place, plug the Send signal into your effects pedal or processor. Plug the Receive into the device's output. Now your device is inserted into the Voyager's signal chain:

Voyager Mix out --> Your effects box --> Voyager Filter In.

You can buy this kind of adapter at any Radio Shack, or any music store. They're not hard to come by.

Realize that the Voyager Oscillators are always On at the Mix Output (according to the Mix level controls and switches, or course). As such Chorusing, Phasing, Flanging and Overdrive/Distortion are good effects to try. Effects such as Delay and Reverb can work here too, but in practice the results are less than optimum. Realize also that breaking this signal chain results in no output from your Voyager.

As for processing your guitar through the Voyager, you should use the External Input, turn the Voyager's envelope gate from Keyboard to On/External, and set the VCA Sustain control fully CW (max.).

Have fun!

-G

thanks to you both for your help.

mark