Game changing gear episode 1 - Minimoog Voyager The Minimoog Voyager is a great monophonic synthesizer and totally changed my music production. #moog #minimoog #voyager
I just skipped about 20 videos about this Moog Voyager because nobody even mentions with that box in the middle was until just now. It’s an XY pad! That’s awesome. Man people suck at these product videos if it took twenty to even mention what that was. Thank you.
Nothing has the weight of voyager You can hear this in Trent’s scores when he hits one low note as a stab , drone, I have the RME , it stopped making sound and moog replaced the board very good customer service
Nices video! I Have a Voyager for my ambient baselines and I have never heard a fuller more majestic lowend. In the mix I just cut some lowend and put a limiter on it, and I am set. Also the whole thing is a piece of art, the knobs are so nice to turn and the wood looks nice.
Nice! Trent Reznor is a very avid user of the Voyager. He even has the same exact kind you have, an Electric Blue. The Voyager strikes me as a desert island/workhorse monosynth that can equal or even surpass a Pro One. I hope to maybe get an XL someday, hopefully.
Now that the Voyager has been replaced by the Matriarch, people think it's no longer the Synth du jour. However, it is one of the greatest synthesizers ever made not only for its robust construction, it's knob-per-function interface, the palette and caliber of the sounds, but also the extensive midi implementation and expandability. Accept no substitute.
Imo compared to the Matriarch/Grandmother the Voyager goes deeper bass wise and is better build. Have the Grandmother and this is sound wise close to the Sub Phatty although better build.
@@Detroit-Berlin Interesting. I played a GM briefly at a guitar center (one of two times I have ever seen Moog in a store) and it was surprised at how easy it was to get a good sound out of it.
@@Rhythmicons Eurorack works better in a Grandmother/Matriach setup, if you have 5U a Voyager with expander or Voyager XL would make more sense. GM and 5U would mean too many 1/8" to 1/4" jacks.
wow that sounds amazing... i think you can really tell the price differences when u hear something like that compared to something more budget.... lol i need to upgrade my “studio” :(
P A Tuseth not only the sound, the keybed is by miles the best I’ve ever played, the knobs/potentiometers are big, precise and have a feeling of top quality to them. Nothing is cramped so user interface is spot on.
Detroit-Berlin making me jealous even more ahhahaha got the dfam nothing near to as good sounding or build like the voyager but yeah its a small taste of the nice knobs at least lol need another job to buy more gear 😂
Du kannst den Voyager beim Moog-Papst Rudi Linhard "modden" lassen. Verbessertes aftertouch, Filter slew rate mod, besseres Verhalten des pitch und mod wheels. Kann ich nur empfehlen! Rudi ist superkompetent und ein sehr netter kerl👍
It's a great synth, don't know if I have a new or old version not much of an aftertouch user so wouldn't be that big of a deal to me. If you have the chance to buy the bigger one with expanders and ribbon control I would highly advice it.
@@Detroit-Berlin I'm failing to save up for the standard verison so I'll never be able to get the xl haha. The new firmware on the newer models also comes with more preset memory I think, so you might wanna do that update yourself.
Can you do a tutorial using the Voyager with CV Expander? And patch it to get quirky modulation. I just them and there is no videos .I have a mini brute 2s that I use to sequence via midi.
@@Detroit-Berlin good day, just using the cv expander as to get to creating new modulations. Patching strategies. I Was trying the mini brute 2s patch bay. Plus midi out into Voyager to run sequence. Goal is to clock Via cv & midi from brute. So 2 running driven by the brute.
@@Detroit-Berlin an in depth video on Voyager & cv expander ( no tutorials on TH-cam) using any of your sequencers. I just found mine unit in flea market last month. And interests in slowly building out a modular. So I got the mini brute 2s for its sequencer an patch bay. Now want to get Maths and data bender to expand the moogs pallet. But for now I just have the cv expander & brute. There is no tutorials. I guess it because the Voyager came out before the TH-cam module craze. 😆
Detroit-Berlin Yeah the blue pitch/mod wheels on my own Voyager are so bright it’s annoying and sorta hurts my eyes .. so much so I don’t even use my Voyager 🥺
Velocity only has effect if you select it under the modulation busses and route it somewhere so I don’t see the need why you need to turn it off completely? Just don’t use it as a modulation source and you should be fine. From my recollection it doesn’t affect amplitude.
@@Detroit-Berlin Thank you and when I hit a key soft, it plays soft, when I hit a key hard, it plays louder. I am trying to hit tha keys all soft and have the volume stay the same please
@@ericques9974 even when you turn the modwheel down and both modbusses pot meters to zero? Do you have the voyager, performer edition (without menu and midi) or voyager XL?
@@ericques9974 Try using the pot mapping function in the menu (edit) Dynamic Volume Control This will program the Voyager to respond to your touch. The harder you hit the keyboard, the louder the sound. SOURCE: Veloc. Att DESTINATION: Master Vol. DIRECTION: Normal AMOUNT: 25, 50 or 100% (as desired) 2. Dynamic Filter Control This will program the Voyager filter cutoff to respond to your touch. The harder you hit the keyboard, the brighter the sound. SOURCE: Veloc. Att. DESTINATION: Fil Cutoff DIRECTION: Normal AMOUNT: 25, 50 or 100% (as desired)
Ten film to oszustwo , tzn przy sterowaniu Voyagera z midi mruga diodą pod ekranem, a nad padem. I nie można tego wyłączyć tak jak oświetlenia tablicy.. W tym filmie dioda nie mrugała, a moog nie ma własnego sequencera. Tak że ten film to ściema.
Przykro mi, że się pomyliłeś, dlaczego miałbym w ogóle zawracać sobie głowę podrabianiem czegokolwiek? Dioda led znajduje się na prawo od ekranu i jest zasłonięta przez widok z kamery 😉
What a useful comment… Please stay away if you can’t bring something positive or at least constructive to the table. And btw in case you missed the title, this video is about how this synth was a game changer for me, not a ‘look how good I can play (or program)’ video in any way.
Actually he's the only demo guy who's gotten some contemporary/future/modern sounding sounds out of it from all the videos I have seen so far. This demo shows how this synth can be used for Techno and Industrial. Not everyone is into Toto and Rush.
First sounds at 3:39 after introduction.
I just skipped about 20 videos about this Moog Voyager because nobody even mentions with that box in the middle was until just now. It’s an XY pad! That’s awesome. Man people suck at these product videos if it took twenty to even mention what that was. Thank you.
thanks 🙏 I plan on doing a demo video of the voyager with expanders in the future.
Nothing has the weight of voyager You can hear this in Trent’s scores when he hits one low note as a stab , drone, I have the RME , it stopped making sound and moog replaced the board very good customer service
yes they go incredibly deep znd have such a full body to the sound
Very nice video, thanks for sharing!
Thank you Daan
Nices video! I Have a Voyager for my ambient baselines and I have never heard a fuller more majestic lowend. In the mix I just cut some lowend and put a limiter on it, and I am set. Also the whole thing is a piece of art, the knobs are so nice to turn and the wood looks nice.
lin lu very true, it’s a great synth
If you own Omnisphere by Spectrasonics, you can turn a Voyager into a polyphonic synth.
@@gnthr7992 Hardware integration. Look for the Omnisphere 2.5 presentation video on YT.
Nice! Trent Reznor is a very avid user of the Voyager. He even has the same exact kind you have, an Electric Blue. The Voyager strikes me as a desert island/workhorse monosynth that can equal or even surpass a Pro One. I hope to maybe get an XL someday, hopefully.
Harrison Thacker they’re a work of art
Now that the Voyager has been replaced by the Matriarch, people think it's no longer the Synth du jour. However, it is one of the greatest synthesizers ever made not only for its robust construction, it's knob-per-function interface, the palette and caliber of the sounds, but also the extensive midi implementation and expandability. Accept no substitute.
Imo compared to the Matriarch/Grandmother the Voyager goes deeper bass wise and is better build. Have the Grandmother and this is sound wise close to the Sub Phatty although better build.
@@Detroit-Berlin Interesting. I played a GM briefly at a guitar center (one of two times I have ever seen Moog in a store) and it was surprised at how easy it was to get a good sound out of it.
@@Rhythmicons GM is a very good synth indeed, add some euro rack filters, ADSRs and oscillators and you have a versatile beast.
@@Detroit-Berlin You lost me at Eurorack hahah. I have a pretty decent 5u setup.
@@Rhythmicons Eurorack works better in a Grandmother/Matriach setup, if you have 5U a Voyager with expander or Voyager XL would make more sense. GM and 5U would mean too many 1/8" to 1/4" jacks.
Thanks for this. SO few tutorials on the Voyager... How are you running the sequence that starts around 8:52?
I'm sequencing it from a Korg SQ-1 in the video but I prefer to sequence it from a Doepfer Dark Time or Elektron Octatrack
@@Detroit-Berlin Thank you. More Voyager Tutorials please :D
wow that sounds amazing... i think you can really tell the price differences when u hear something like that compared to something more budget.... lol i need to upgrade my “studio” :(
P A Tuseth not only the sound, the keybed is by miles the best I’ve ever played, the knobs/potentiometers are big, precise and have a feeling of top quality to them. Nothing is cramped so user interface is spot on.
Detroit-Berlin making me jealous even more ahhahaha got the dfam nothing near to as good sounding or build like the voyager but yeah its a small taste of the nice knobs at least lol need another job to buy more gear 😂
Sorry, if the knobs on the DFAM are the same as on the Mother32 (PCB mount) they OK but not totally comparable to those on the Voyager (panel mount)
Detroit-Berlin uff sticking a finger in the open wound hahahaha
P A Tuseth and lots of salt 🧂 👹
are you using some kind of overdrive with it? love the sound!
At some moments I’m routing the headphone out into the external in so it acts like a sort of overdrive (it’s actually gentle feedback)
@@Detroit-Berlin I recently bought a Voyager XL and I had no idea about that trick. Thanks!
@@Detroit-Berlin Which cable are you using? Headphone out is stereo and external in is mono, so I am not sure what to get.
@@miroslav_official a balanced (stereo jack) patch cable
my dream synth! Am saving up for one. have you got a new version? The early ones came with shitty aftertouch compared to the newer models
Du kannst den Voyager beim Moog-Papst Rudi Linhard "modden" lassen. Verbessertes aftertouch, Filter slew rate mod, besseres Verhalten des pitch und mod wheels. Kann ich nur empfehlen! Rudi ist superkompetent und ein sehr netter kerl👍
It's a great synth, don't know if I have a new or old version not much of an aftertouch user so wouldn't be that big of a deal to me. If you have the chance to buy the bigger one with expanders and ribbon control I would highly advice it.
@@Detroit-Berlin I'm failing to save up for the standard verison so I'll never be able to get the xl haha. The new firmware on the newer models also comes with more preset memory I think, so you might wanna do that update yourself.
Werner Zimmermann ok yeah the xl is a lot more expensive. Mine is updated to the newest firmware.
Can you do a tutorial using the Voyager with CV Expander? And patch it to get quirky modulation. I just them and there is no videos .I have a mini brute 2s that I use to sequence via midi.
Can you be more specific?
You mean a video that also applies to the Brute or an in-depth video about the voyager/expander
@@Detroit-Berlin good day, just using the cv expander as to get to creating new modulations. Patching strategies. I Was trying the mini brute 2s patch bay. Plus midi out into Voyager to run sequence. Goal is to clock Via cv & midi from brute. So 2 running driven by the brute.
@@Detroit-Berlin an in depth video on Voyager & cv expander ( no tutorials on TH-cam) using any of your sequencers. I just found mine unit in flea market last month. And interests in slowly building out a modular. So I got the mini brute 2s for its sequencer an patch bay. Now want to get Maths and data bender to expand the moogs pallet. But for now I just have the cv expander & brute. There is no tutorials. I guess it because the Voyager came out before the TH-cam module craze. 😆
do you have compression on ?
I might have put some compression on in post editing the video but I also route the headphone out to the input to drive/saturate the voyager
Is there anyway to dim the lights in the pitch/mod wheels?
not that I know of, or you have to open up the synth and do a hardware mod
Detroit-Berlin Yeah the blue pitch/mod wheels on my own Voyager are so bright it’s annoying and sorta hurts my eyes .. so much so I don’t even use my Voyager 🥺
What arp/sequencer are you using?
Korg SQ1 but prefer the Doepfer Dark Time
Hi, is there a way to turn of the velocity sensitivity COMPLETELY ?
Velocity only has effect if you select it under the modulation busses and route it somewhere so I don’t see the need why you need to turn it off completely? Just don’t use it as a modulation source and you should be fine.
From my recollection it doesn’t affect amplitude.
@@Detroit-Berlin Thank you and when I hit a key soft, it plays soft, when I hit a key hard, it plays louder. I am trying to hit tha keys all soft and have the volume stay the same please
@@ericques9974 even when you turn the modwheel down and both modbusses pot meters to zero?
Do you have the voyager, performer edition (without menu and midi) or voyager XL?
@@ericques9974 Try using the pot mapping function in the menu (edit)
Dynamic Volume Control
This will program the Voyager to respond to your touch. The harder you hit the keyboard, the louder the sound.
SOURCE: Veloc. Att
DESTINATION: Master Vol.
DIRECTION: Normal
AMOUNT: 25, 50 or 100% (as desired)
2. Dynamic Filter Control
This will program the Voyager filter cutoff to respond to your touch. The harder you hit the keyboard, the brighter the sound.
SOURCE: Veloc. Att.
DESTINATION: Fil Cutoff
DIRECTION: Normal
AMOUNT: 25, 50 or 100% (as desired)
@@Detroit-Berlin I will, thanks
Ten film to oszustwo , tzn przy sterowaniu Voyagera z midi mruga diodą pod ekranem, a nad padem. I nie można tego wyłączyć tak jak oświetlenia tablicy.. W tym filmie dioda nie mrugała, a moog nie ma własnego sequencera. Tak że ten film to ściema.
Przykro mi, że się pomyliłeś, dlaczego miałbym w ogóle zawracać sobie głowę podrabianiem czegokolwiek?
Dioda led znajduje się na prawo od ekranu i jest zasłonięta przez widok z kamery 😉
Man… your really bad with this synth eh? 🥱🥱🥱🥱🙏
What a useful comment… Please stay away if you can’t bring something positive or at least constructive to the table.
And btw in case you missed the title, this video is about how this synth was a game changer for me, not a ‘look how good I can play (or program)’ video in any way.
Actually he's the only demo guy who's gotten some contemporary/future/modern sounding sounds out of it from all the videos I have seen so far. This demo shows how this synth can be used for Techno and Industrial. Not everyone is into Toto and Rush.