Minimoog Voyager Old School

mono-poly · Post by **mono-poly** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:14 pm

I would love to see a rackmount edition of this machine.
But full modular with patchpoints.
That should be easy made of this.

The Moog Modular Voyager Very Old School.

Yoozer · Post by **Yoozer** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:20 pm

Jack Spider wrote: That said, I like eating the grass on both sides of the fence and always work from the ground up with a 'blank' patch on the LP, to give me my 'fiddling' fix and love the ability to save it to memory.

One of the issues I've always had with patches was was organizing them - storing them, naming them, recalling them. It's a job I absolutely hate and the reason most of my synths just have the factory patches. Just playing those is a lot of fun already, and when I get lost in tweaking territory, I try to go there again by recreating the patch. When I need something for a track, it gets rendered to audio or stored in some location I'll forget anyway.

I like random patch generators; even if I'm "swimming" there's too big of a chance that you choose certain routes, and these things can solve that. It's too bad a lot of synths don't have 'm on-board, though; especially FM synths can benefit from it.

OriginalJambo · Post by **OriginalJambo** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:08 pm

Yoozer wrote:They've invented the "MANUAL" button for that .

Aye, but how many synths with patch memory actually have a "manual" button?

neandrewthal · Post by **neandrewthal** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:10 pm

OriginalJambo wrote:
Yoozer wrote:They've invented the "MANUAL" button for that .
Aye, but how many synths with patch memory actually have a "manual" button?

Every one I've tried. Either that or you just don't touch the preset buttons after you've powered it up.

Post by **Jack Spider** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:31 pm

OriginalJambo wrote:Aye, but how many synths with patch memory actually have a "manual" button?

The Jupiter 6 has one, which can lead to interesting results.

Hokusai · Post by **Hokusai** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:36 pm

Will the Old School survive a EMP blast, since it doesn't have any digital components?

Johnny Lenin · Post by **Johnny Lenin** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:42 pm

Hokusai wrote:Will the Old School survive a EMP blast, since it doesn't have any digital components?

EMP will kill analog too. We'll all be playing pianos after the BIG ONE.

Synthaholic · Post by **Synthaholic** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:23 pm

mis psiquicios y yo wrote:I'm getting a little hot right now, thinking: should i sell my Odyssey Mk III and get (with extra money) a nice brand new VOS? the only thing i think i'll miss is the S & H. When i take the decision i'll let you know

The VOS has S&H too.

As for synths with "manual" buttons, the Juno-60 and 106 have them, as well as the Korg Polysix. I believe the Jupiter-8 does too.

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:28 pm

Jack Spider wrote:
OriginalJambo wrote:Aye, but how many synths with patch memory actually have a "manual" button?
The Jupiter 6 has one, which can lead to interesting results.

also, the nord lead series, the juno 106 (possibly the 60), the voyager

hfinn · Post by **hfinn** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:57 pm

OriginalJambo wrote:
Yoozer wrote:They've invented the "MANUAL" button for that .
Aye, but how many synths with patch memory actually have a "manual" button?

Ob-X, OB-Xa, OB-8, Prophet-5/10, Jupiter 4, Jupiter 6, Jupiter 8, CS-50/60/80 (called panel) and many more. I believe even the voyager had one...

Bitexion · Post by **Bitexion** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:02 am

Andromeda has manual button too. Can lead to interesting (scary) sounds when you get the exact current value of 50+ knobs

OriginalJambo · Post by **OriginalJambo** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:37 am

Wow, had no idea so many had manual buttons. It's not really a touted feature I guess so that's probably why, although it's plenty useful IMO.

Most of the synths I've used with patch memory don't have 'em - in fact the PolySix is the only one I could name without putting some proper thought into it - comes as quite a surprise to me!

Funny thing is PolySix is pretty much a manual synth anyway however - the patch memory is busted.

aXL · Post by **aXL** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:07 pm

Worrell wrote:I think moog should make a 'Little Phatty old school' as an even more affordable moog synth. That or a one-oscillator synth.

I'm all for that. When news first came about the 'Phatty, I was quick to imagine it being the Prodigy to the Minimoog Voyager. An LPOS would definitely become a bass/lead workhorse for this synth player if it became a reality.

Also, a one-osc Moog would be amusing. Wouldn't be too far removed from the Rogue, I'd wager, and definitely a logical move if they want an ultra-basic entry-level mono.

As for the VOS, it could easily be a Second Coming of the Mini, not because of it being a sensational release like the Mini was, but because it is a new Mini. Sure, it's not a piece-by-piece copy, but all the things that made a Minimoog a Minimoog is there, plus a few new things like pressure sensitivity. Don't want to gig your almost 40-year-old Mini? Get a VOS and rock out in real-time.

Dirk · Post by **Dirk** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:35 pm

Johnny Lenin wrote:
Hokusai wrote:Will the Old School survive a EMP blast, since it doesn't have any digital components?
EMP will kill analog too. We'll all be playing pianos after the BIG ONE.

Michael Faraday has come up with a prety simple solution to protect equipment from EMP. Infact all modern military equipment is perfectly safe from EMP.

If the VOS does not have much better soundquality its a useless piece of c**p.

steveman · Post by **steveman** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:12 pm

Worrell wrote:I think moog should make a 'Little Phatty old school' as an even more affordable moog synth. That or a one-oscillator synth.

Thing is, would an old school LP be much cheaper? It'd have to have knobs for everything (20 or so, rather than just the 4 or 5 it has now) and switches for mod routings etc.
Digital is cheaper than analogue, so it wouldn't surprise me if it ended up being around the same price.

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