Talk:Voyetra-8

I think there were about 300 Voyetra 8s made, and my friends and I owned a total of 3 of them. Suggestions:

What isn't mentioned is why this synth was of so much interest to musicians and used in the studio so much despite the fact that so few were made. I don't know how to properly put this in the article, but people reading this might be at a loss to understand why this was a significant if not popular, synth.

The 24db/8va filter is mentioned. I suggest that special note be made of this as other synths has 12db/octave filters. This made the synth sound fuller ("fatter", as musicians would say). Another plus was using MIDI to layer it with a synth of different tonal characteristics. For example, the full Voyetra and the thinner sounding (I know this is a subjective description, but I don't know a better term) DX7 were a great combination, providing bite or brightness via the DX and fullness via the Voyetra. This was particularly useful in the 1980s, where synthesizers began their pop heyday and MIDI made layering synthesizer possible.

The device's strength was its undoing. It was rack mounted, yet there were so many editable parameters that it was difficult to access all the screens or "pages". Every button on the rack mount unit had multiple functions. Unless one worked with it constantly, work was slow because one had to memorize 6(?) functions for each button (6 pages). There was a software package available for editing the device which worked on PCs. Because of bios incompatibility in early PCs (as existed on the first Compaq "lunchbox" portable PC), it was often difficult to get the program to work properly. Nonetheless, the PC and associated editing software was the best programming interface for the device.

"The 24db/8va filter is mentioned. I suggest that special note be made of this as other synths has 12db/octave filters."

what? 24dB/oct filters are by some distance the most common sort you will find in analogue synths.

why don't you concentrate on some of the really odd stuff, like the lack of PW/PWM control, or the use of the main oscillators as mod sources? those are the things that make the v8 an unusual poly synth. duncanrmi (talk) 01:29, 17 February 2017 (UTC)