Any demos of the Octave Plateau Voyetra 8??

urgetoplay · Post by **urgetoplay** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:42 pm

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.

Rangoon · Post by **Rangoon** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:54 pm

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....

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:05 pm

I second the ulrich schnauss recommendation... he is really great, I first heard of him when he remixed Depeche Mode's 'Little 15', and I've been hooked since

Post by **Mixolydian** » Wed Feb 25, 2009 3:25 am

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.

Post by **HideawayStudio** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:07 pm

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

JB

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!

The Prophet 2002 is lovely - it might only have 512/1024K of RAM but like the EIII it also has analog resonant filters and a superb stack function along with a great arpeggiator. This one is never leaving my studio!

Post by **HideawayStudio** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:12 pm

urgetoplay wrote:Non famous users include ...me.

Nice machine although the interface is crummy. A few quirks (like XLR midi plug),weighs a ton, needs space due to heat output, noisy fan,hard to repair ( Peter Lanzilotta in NY) and a # of revisions, some of which are impossible to work on. A few good resources on the web. If you have specific questions I'll do my best to answer...

Oooh and the super rare green livery version of the Microwave I see! I too have a Microwave I - I adore it, I will never part with mine.

Post by **HideawayStudio** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:16 pm

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

gcoudert · Post by **gcoudert** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:20 pm

madtheory wrote:
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 ...
An incredible collection there. Such a pity that it's just stored!

Wow! What shop is that? Please tell me it's in London!

Post by **HideawayStudio** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:38 pm

madtheory wrote:
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 ...
An incredible collection there. Such a pity that it's just stored!

You've guessed which Andy I'm talking about then? His shop/museum has always been a treasure trove - It's a real shame I'm not in the area as much as I used to be. I tried to make him a serious offer the other day for the old beast but he just won't have it. I suspect Andy is just too much like me - once you have a beloved piece of gear you just don't want to part with it - I can't blame him for that. I feel just the same about my restored ARP Omni-2 and Prophet 2002

Post by **HideawayStudio** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:43 pm

gcoudert wrote:
madtheory wrote:
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 ...
An incredible collection there. Such a pity that it's just stored!
Wow! What shop is that? Please tell me it's in London!

Nope - 'fraid not... more Massive Attack's territory 8)

iProg · Post by **iProg** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:45 am

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..

RichShan · Post by **RichShan** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:55 pm

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..

The bass is by a Moog Source...

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!

Micke · Post by **Micke** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:16 pm

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..

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.

Micke

Sir Ruff · Post by **Sir Ruff** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 6:45 pm

HideawayStudio wrote:
madtheory wrote:
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 ...
An incredible collection there. Such a pity that it's just stored!

Nope - 'fraid not... more Massive Attack's territory 8)

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...

voyetra · Post by **voyetra** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:26 pm

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).

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