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marzzz · Post by **marzzz** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 6:28 am

That is some pretty strange product development, if you ask me....

Post by **John Bowen** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:18 am

Yes, I saw the speculation on AH, and it really is strange to have a 5-octave keyboard if it is not polyphonic in some way.
Seems there's no news on the official Moog site, so....we will have to wait.

marzzz · Post by **marzzz** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:48 am

It kind of makes me wonder if they are afraid to innovate- this Voyager XL seems to be basically a cobbled-together Voyager with CP-251 and XV-351 boxes, a 5 oct keyboard, and a ribbon. Buy all of that together and you would come in at about $1500 less and have essentially the same thing.

I would think that using the Little Phatty (gawd, I despise that name....!) technology to come up with an analog polysynth would be something more people would be interested in.

Post by **John Bowen** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 10:00 am

Yes, and did you see the post talking about Moog having registered the name 'Slim Phatty', with a functional description of what sounded like a filter bank (or vocoder-type function) with pattern sequencer included?

jb

ThreeFingersOfLove · Post by **ThreeFingersOfLove** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 2:32 pm

Well to be honest, this is a weird design. Somehow it doesn't quite look right to me.

I already have a Select Series Voyager, the CP-251 and VX-351 and I am very happy. I don't see how 1500 dollars extra cost can be justified for the Voyager XL. You get 1,5 octaves more, more wood and a couple of things here and there (like more waveforms for the LFO).

Carbon111 · Post by **Carbon111** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 2:02 pm

I like it!

...probably going to sell my Voyager OS to help fund one of these.

Post by **John Bowen** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 7:38 pm

Carbon111 wrote:I like it!

...probably going to sell my Voyager OS to help fund one of these.

Ha! I KNEW it!!
-jb

marzzz · Post by **marzzz** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:22 pm

Now that's too bad, if anything if I had to do it all over again I would have started with the Voyager OS, I played one at NAMM and enjoyed the immediacy of it that I hadn't experienced since I sold my MiniMoog D back in '82. As it stands, I still have my 2003 Performer after selling off pretty much everything else.

scope4live · Post by **scope4live** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 5:04 am

Wheres the turntable and pads....
Are the loops on the lowest or highest octaves...
Can I use the ribbon to chnage the tempo of the sequencer in realtime...

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Fri Nov 19, 2010 7:52 pm

If you want "real analog" (which does have its place of course!)
For that much you could get a nice synthesizers.com modular, and be able to do a lot more with it. and buy(or build) lots of other cool modules as needed.
oh but its not moog!

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