sometimes you just need to sit down and read all the manuals to the devices you own. I bought a moog voyager last october and had a few friends criticize me for it. One was a previous owner saying 'the presets suck, i returned it.' Thankfully i know a lot more synthesis than this chap and went out and bought it.

Now... i had also read online about these 128 presets and decided i'd just have to come up with my own (i mean i did it with my virus, i can do it with this). I get my voyager with the manual (all manuals were written using vers 2.6) and he was right, a lot of these presets were musically unusable.

it wasn't until this morning that i randomly read that Moog put in an extra chip in 3.XX models that allowed for 812 presets. All you had to do was hit Cursor + +1 to get to the next bank of patches. I thought oh, well i have a 2.6 mod so no go. I turn her on to try it... "NOW IN BANK B"... "NOW IN BANK C" .

oh.my.god.

i had been really good about reading 70% of the manual when i buy things but now, i am dedicating sundays & mondays to "Manual Day". I feel like an idiot when i read some of these things... i mean why wouldn't i want to know every little thing about my devices.

Anyways i thought it was a revelation worth sharing, i suggest you do the same.

Last edited by Zombie0729 on Aug-04-2008 at 17:00

Good advice you can only become a master once you first master your tools!

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Processing a highly structured and complex pattern of sensory input as a unified percept of "music" is probably one of the most elaborate features of the human brain.....understanding how music is perceived and how it may elicit intense sensations is far from being understood.

Most of my synths are old Rolands from the 80s.

Reading the TB-303 manual makes me hate life.

I like old rolandd sounds

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Processing a highly structured and complex pattern of sensory input as a unified percept of "music" is probably one of the most elaborate features of the human brain.....understanding how music is perceived and how it may elicit intense sensations is far from being understood.

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Originally posted by Watts Most of my synths are old Rolands from the 80s. Reading the TB-303 manual makes me hate life.

Is it in English?

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I have dedicated "study time" where i read manuals, research something i dont know/unsure of, read up on techniques and generaly be a study nerd for ages, then i go and have a massive musical session that makes it all worth it.

Defiantly worth doing in my opinion.

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Nice advice and well worth it!

u guys have too much free time.

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Originally posted by palm u guys have too much free time.

Nada...everyone has time.



I've actually started reading the manuals cover to cover in my, uh, free time. Just got done reading Melodyne's manual and without it would have been stuck thinking you can just move clips around. Some manufacturers are better than others, but many that I've read - Ableton and Melodyne recently - were pretty well thought out. Great advice on investing some quality time with the manual.