{"id":24369,"date":"2009-05-24T20:54:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T04:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9n2.ac0.myftpupload.com\/presetblog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2009-05-24T20:54:07","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T04:54:07","slug":"moog-voyager-minimonsta-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24369","title":{"rendered":"Moog Voyager \/ Minimonsta comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out of nothing more then curiosity I wanted to know the fundamental differences between the Moog Voyager &amp; Minimonsta. The filter is obvious so I didn&#8217;t even want to have that in the equation. I wanted to look at the raw building blocks, the oscillator waveforms. These are my results.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wavesurfer-block wavesurfer-playlist\"><div class=\"wavesurfer-player\" data-wave-color=\"#000000\" data-cursor-color=\"#dddddd\" data-progress-color=\"#ededed\" data-height=\"127\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/v-saw.wav\"><\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-progress\"><progress class=\"wavesurfer-loading\" value=\"0\" max=\"100\"><\/progress><\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-buttons_set\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"wavesurfer-play\"><span>Play<\/span><\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"wavesurfer-stop\"><span>Stop<\/span><\/button><div class=\"wavesurfer-time\"><\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-duration\"><\/div><\/div><ol class=\"wavesurfer-list-group\"><li class=\"list-group-item\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/v-saw.wav\" ><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-id\">1. <\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-title\">Voyager-saw<\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-duration\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"list-group-item\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Minimonsta-saw.wav\" ><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-id\">2. <\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-title\">Minimonsta-saw<\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-duration\">0:04<\/div><\/li><li class=\"list-group-item\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Voyager-square.wav\" ><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-id\">3. <\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-title\">Voyager-square<\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-duration\">0:04<\/div><\/li><li class=\"list-group-item\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Minimonsta-square.wav\" ><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-id\">4. <\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-title\">Minimonsta-square<\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-duration\">0:04<\/div><\/li><li class=\"list-group-item\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Voyager-tri.wav\" ><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-id\">5. <\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-title\">Voyager-tri<\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-duration\">0:04<\/div><\/li><li class=\"list-group-item\" data-url=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Minimonsta-tri.wav\" ><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-id\">6. <\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-title\">Minimonsta-tri<\/div><div class=\"wavesurfer-playlist-track-duration\">0:04<\/div><\/li><\/ol><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Visuals<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Voyager-Saw<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/mediaarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/v-saw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"219\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Minimonsta -Saw<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/mediaarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/g-saw.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Voyager-tri<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/mediaarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/v-tri.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Minimonsta-tri<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/mediaarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/g-tri.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Voyager-Square<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/mediaarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/v-square.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Minimonsta -Square<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/mediaarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/g-square.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>The original test has the\u00a0 filters set to wide open on both synths. I don&#8217;t think the original ever fully takes the filter out of the picture.\u00a0 So with some further knob twiddling I have found if you add a little resonance\u00a0 on\u00a0 the voyager the wave shapes get pretty damn close.\u00a0 I&#8217;m thinking the voyager just has a wider filter range.<\/p>\n<p>Voyager Saw + filter res<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/temp\/Random%20Pics\/v-saw-res2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Voyager Square + filter res<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/temp\/Random%20Pics\/v-square-res2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of nothing more then curiosity I wanted to know the fundamental differences between the<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24369\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moog Voyager \/ Minimonsta comparison<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,78,84,136],"class_list":["post-24369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","tag-analog","tag-moog","tag-ohm-force","tag-voyager","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/g-square.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24737,"url":"https:\/\/ericbeam.com\/?p=24737","url_meta":{"origin":24369,"position":0},"title":"One &#038; One project &#8211; Moog Voyager \/ FU Sticks","author":"Eric","date":"December 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Aka plug in a synth hit rec, and see what happens experiment. 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