Any demos of the Octave Plateau Voyetra 8??
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Re: Any demos of the Octave Plateau Voyetra 8??
Looking at mini's pic and mine I'm amused that both voyerra are missing the arpeggiator knob cover. Mine fell off a few tears back during a move.
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Re: Any demos of the Octave Plateau Voyetra 8??
About once every two years I pull my half-working Voyetra 8 out of the closet and try to decide whether to fix it, sell it, or put it back in the closet. Somehow the closet always wins....
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Re: Any demos of the Octave Plateau Voyetra 8??
I was in San Diego in '92 or for Navy Reserve training. My sister lived there at the time, and over the weekend she was showing me around town. We went to an antique mall (in the Mission district I believe,) and one of the vendors sold old radios, guitar amps, tubes, and other old electrical stuff. There on a shelf was a Voyetra 8 complete with the dedicated keyboard. I'd never seen one before so I ask him what it was. He said that he didn't know much about it and that he was selling it for a friend. It seems like he wanted $500 or $600 for it.
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I recently restored a Sequential Prophet 2002 sampler - amazingly you can still buy the very same front panel switches from RS - not bad for a 25 year old design! I replaced all 26 switches and the floppy drive and gave it a realy good clean. The net result is amazing, in fact a friend came round the other night and thought it was new!JB wrote:Yep, early/mid New Order is usually the reference for Voyetra 8 listening, check the Low Life album (and possibly Brotherhood but not 100% sure on that one).
Apparently the V8 was their main synth during that period.
I definitely recommend an EIII, I had one 7 or 8 years back, loved it (but sold it when downscaling prior to a move abroad).
Another interesting sampler to keep an eye out for is a Simmons SDX, similar to the EIII in the way that it's a 16-bit sampler with analogue (resonant) filters, up to 8Mb RAM, individual voice outputs and SCSI but with the benefit of graphical editing, more EGs & LFOs and even more exclusivity
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urgetoplay wrote:Non famous users include ...me.
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tim gueguen wrote:But hey, what did I do? I managed to find some brief sound examples.
http://www.inform3r.com/voyetra.html
Superb! .... many thanks for that

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Wow! What shop is that? Please tell me it's in London!madtheory wrote:An incredible collection there. Such a pity that it's just stored!HideawayStudio wrote:FGtH's Fairlight has been residing in a non working state for many years now in the museum section of my favourite music shop - one of these day's Andy will accept an offer of mine and I can restore it back to working life...
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madtheory wrote:An incredible collection there. Such a pity that it's just stored!HideawayStudio wrote:FGtH's Fairlight has been residing in a non working state for many years now in the museum section of my favourite music shop - one of these day's Andy will accept an offer of mine and I can restore it back to working life...


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gcoudert wrote:Wow! What shop is that? Please tell me it's in London!madtheory wrote:An incredible collection there. Such a pity that it's just stored!HideawayStudio wrote:FGtH's Fairlight has been residing in a non working state for many years now in the museum section of my favourite music shop - one of these day's Andy will accept an offer of mine and I can restore it back to working life...
Nope - 'fraid not... more Massive Attack's territory 8)
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Re: Any demos of the Octave Plateau Voyetra 8??
My favorite Voyetra feature is the chords in "Thieves Like Us"
ARP Quadra strings and some Moogish bass (or Pro-One, not sure) and some lovely resonant Voyetra chords (that I've programmed to a certain similar sound on my juno106..
ARP Quadra strings and some Moogish bass (or Pro-One, not sure) and some lovely resonant Voyetra chords (that I've programmed to a certain similar sound on my juno106..
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Re: Any demos of the Octave Plateau Voyetra 8??
The bass is by a Moog Source...iProg wrote:My favorite Voyetra feature is the chords in "Thieves Like Us"
ARP Quadra strings and some Moogish bass (or Pro-One, not sure) and some lovely resonant Voyetra chords (that I've programmed to a certain similar sound on my juno106..
I saw NewOrder in 1983 and they played Thieves Like Us. I don't think they had the Voyetras then. They did, however, have 4 Prophet 5s on stage!
Re: Any demos of the Octave Plateau Voyetra 8??
The strings and chords/pads on the original version are Quadra and Prophet 5 respectively. Later on when they got the Voyetra's they used one for chords and leads and the other for sequencing.iProg wrote:My favorite Voyetra feature is the chords in "Thieves Like Us"
ARP Quadra strings and some Moogish bass (or Pro-One, not sure) and some lovely resonant Voyetra chords (that I've programmed to a certain similar sound on my juno106..
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That place is amazing... but also seriously depressing. ALL that gear, just sitting fallow. I guess if you were interested enough, it was possible to actually play some of them given there are speakers up there, but half the stuff is just sitting on its side. sigh...HideawayStudio wrote:madtheory wrote:An incredible collection there. Such a pity that it's just stored!HideawayStudio wrote:FGtH's Fairlight has been residing in a non working state for many years now in the museum section of my favourite music shop - one of these day's Andy will accept an offer of mine and I can restore it back to working life...
Nope - 'fraid not... more Massive Attack's territory 8)

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I can email some samples to anyone interested in hearing the V8, just pm me your address.
I own 2 of Voyetra 8 Rev4 (one is for sale in the classified section).
I own 2 of Voyetra 8 Rev4 (one is for sale in the classified section).