Yesterday marked a historical day at MOOG Music. Serial number 1 of the Voyager Old School rolled off the production line. You can find images of it along with serial numbers 1-3 here.The images include:
- The front of Serial #1 Old School.
- Serial numbers 1 - 3 stacked up in burn in and awaiting shipping.
- The top of Serial #1 Old School. The careful observer will notice a few more CV outputs than the released prototype pictures.
- The guts of the Old School. Those that have seen the inside of a Voyager may be asking where did everything go? Note how clean this design is.- A PCB easter egg! Look closely and you will see a BUG in the OS (pun intended). There apparently are more of these on the board.
Note that yesterday also marked the following:
1) The first OS went to shipping. It was actually built the day before but had to go though burn in and test, so it was not finished until yesterday.
2) The last little Phatty Stage Edition V1 was built - next build will all be SE 2.0 with a revised chassis.
3) The PCB for the, hopefully, production version of the multi pedal was laid out and sent to the fabricator to be made.
Removing that ugly display was such a great move IMO. I would like to pick one of these up someday.
ReplyDeleteI want this so bad, but I can't justify buying a third voyager.
ReplyDeleteSN0001 was not the first one back to shipping! Funny how things work like that.
ReplyDeleteI trained today on Old School calibrating with #1. Pretty cool stuff:) But I learned very quickly how dependent I've been on patch memory. It usually takes me between 10 to 15 minutes to functional test a Voyager (using the Init patch) but it took me about an hour to functional test the OS:0
Much more knob twiddling required but it was very fun!!
It looks great. Now, if it only had patch memory and MIDI....
ReplyDeleteAnd that nice touch surface;)
ReplyDeleteSo for posterity, who purchased #001? It would be cool if someday there were a registry of the original purchasers, to compliment the list of original purchasers of the first original Minis that is now on moogarchives.com.
ReplyDeleteI am confused. I think many others are too. For the most basic (note on - note off - pitch ), the VX-351 is not needed for controlling the Old School, correct?
ReplyDeleteI assume that if you have a Kenton midi/cv convertor...you can control the cv and gate of the Old School Voyager with your midi keyboard. Basically, you would be playing your midi keyboard > kenton > to trigger the Old School Voyager.
Now, if you want your Voyager to control other synths, you would in fact need to get the VX-351 expander.
(This is one big question, not a statement of actual facts.)
Any confirmation from an actual OS owner?