Moog Voyager Rack - worth it or not ?

[Solderman]

I'm probably a day late and a dollar short on this one, but I quickly pasted together a short montage of six of the Voyager bass sounds that I have made this past year.

Most of them utilize sending the left output back to audio in, so you hear only the right output, then adjusting both the feedback level and cutoff spacing. Also, some of them are using an aural exciter at the Mix Insert loop. The Voyager's oscillators aren't always bright enough. The second sound is just showing the 2 pole filter setting, no feedback or EQ.

Only thing that really bugs me is these sounds take up !!!Ridiculous!!! amounts of headroom. I can't get them any louder than what is heard in the sound file without ruining any punch it still has. It appears, at least for these sounds, I may end up spending more money on a good mixing engineer than on the synth itself, to get these sounds to actually fit in a mix.

[xpander]

Having went away and started looking at the .com systems available,
especially the portable 22-system modular.

the dotcom modulars sound fantastic, that's a great alternative!

[Carey M]

Sounds like a vintage synthesizer, like a newly discovered vintage Moog.

that's an interesting review- i've never even seen anything macbeth in the flesh, now i want to hear one.

Definitely worth a listen. The M3X doesn't sound exactly like a Model D, sort of smoother, not so ballsy, envelopes maybe not quite as punchy, still a clear Moog-character. Lovely, lovely synth. I prefer the MidiMini I currently have, but I preferred the M3X over the Voyager and SE-1X. The M5 looks even better

If I had the money, I'd get them all! =P~

- CM