User Guide

-Start Playing!
The quickest way to hear what the Voyager has to offer is to listen to the presets.
Pressing the +1 or –1 buttons will access a new preset. If the sound does not change,
then “Quick mode” is not active – simply press ENTER to load the new sound. Presets 001
– 128 are loaded with sounds from the factory. There are a total of 128 locations in
memory for presets – all are user programmable. Note that once a preset is called up,
you can tweak the parameters to your liking. If you make changes to a preset and want
to return to the original sound, press ENTER. If you want to save your changes – refer to
the section on Saving Presets on p. 57. Any changes made to a preset will be gone if
they are not saved.
To operate exclusively from the Front Panel and not from the Presets, the actual panel
parameters must be loaded. This is done by pressing the EDIT button to enter EDIT mode;
then use the +1 button to highlight REAL PANEL CONTROL. Press ENTER, and you will see
the prompt: ” Load actual panel parameter? Yes/No”. Use CURSOR to select Yes and
press ENTER. The sound produced by the Voyager is now determined by the settings of
the front panel independently of preset memory.
When working with the Voyager, keep in mind that many of the controls are
interactive, so there is frequently more than one way to control a single parameter.
For instance, if the sustain level of the Volume Envelope is all the way down, and the
attack and decay times are at zero, there will be no output. It is really important to
understand the workings of all the controls and how they interact in order to
understand how a sound (or lack thereof) is produced. The best way to accomplish
this is to start with a simple patch, such as the Default Program, shown on p. 55 of
this manual. It can be accessed by the Initialize Parameters function in Edit Mode.
With this Preset active, a single Oscillator (Osc.1) is the sound source. Try the controls
right of the mixer first – one at a time – and notice how they affect the sound. Then
try combining different tones with the mixer and Oscillators 2 and 3. Finally
experiment with the Mod Busses to see how different types of Modulation affect the
sound. To find out how the factory presets are programmed – try the “Parameter
Display” function – if you need to turn it on, refer to p.58 of this manual. Go through
each control and change it, then see what the stored value is – you will start to get
a picture of how that preset is put together.
For a thorough understanding of the Voyager and it’s workings, continue on with this
manual…