Those Voyagers are hot!

alex maiolo wrote:

konx-om-pax wrote:i think i prefer the older set ups, more analog the better!

Statements like this always crack me up.
I do own a fair amount of analog gear, but I'm curious, why do you say this?
-A

all the little ticks and hums, thought it was an obvious thing to say really...

i love smart arses.

John W. wrote:Those Voyagers are hot!

you have a fucking Voyager, Alex?





cool.

kerble wrote:

John W. wrote:Those Voyagers are hot!

you have a fucking Voyager, Alex?





cool.

Yeah, I sold a Rogue, a Sonic Six, and a MiniKorg 700s to drum up the cash.
NO regrets.
So nice, this thing.
The pitch/mod wheels glow blue - yow!

Here's the old girl in action at a charity gig last year. I'm doing my best to be super stoic as I play my one hand bass lines.
Matt Gentling is playing bass and our friend Josh is singing.
On the other side of the stage, our hero Mike Waltersis playing PolyMoog and MiniMoog, Josh Carpenter's on Synare pad and pocket synth, Cy Rawls on guitar, and Nick Speaks is on drums.
Double Minis with the backs flipped up flanked the stage. Matt and Cy were both playing Beans not because Gary's guys did, but because they looked "modern" and it added more PoMo symmetry.
7 songs, no sequencing. Sounded alright, but filmed on a wee camera and posted on YouTube makes it sound a little rough.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6qtyITXKuQ

-A

oh, I know. I've eye-fucked that keyboard 300 times.

I was interested in the polymoog b/c it has a flat top and I could stack my nord 2 on it, but yes, a voyager would be a hoot. that said, the manipulation capabilities of the nord2 make it pretty good at calling up kraftwerky sounds.

Let's see a picture, of the Voyager. I didn't know they still manufactured those.

they're 'new' and currently in production:



Bob Moog is still doing great stuff. the moogerfooger pedals are really neat and handsome:


and they make the little fatty, too:



and theremins:


and a whole bunch of other neat crap.

Eating Noddemix wrote:Let's see a picture, of the Voyager. I didn't know they still manufactured those.

http://www.moogmusic.com/detail.php?main_product_id=163
http://www.moogmusic.com/detail.php?main_product_id=40

Those two are still in production, among some other variants. You might be thinking of the Signature Edition, which was a limited run.

A friend of mine owns one--very, very nice.

Edit: I see Kerble was quicker on the draw than I was. Good work.

Scroll back up, I appended my post.
It basically looks like a Mini. I mean, it IS a mini - fully analog.
You can store presets though, and the Sample and Hold feature is nice.
It skunks an old fashioned Mini.

Also, Bob's hands were in these, unlike most Minis, which were made by Moog Music/Norlin for most of the production years. He wasn't that involved for most of those years.
How can you argue with a synth the man himself improved?

-A

kerble wrote:Bob Moog is still doing great stuff.

Well, Moog Inc is, Bob passed last year from brain cancer. He was a super nice guy that I had the pleasure of meeting and dining with a few times.

I like to think that his brain just sort of self-destructed from total badassoisity.

Thanks Bob! RIP, Mr. Genius, sir.

-A