THM said:
the Voyager has not the vintage MOOG sound, and it is pretty limited in features for a new synth. Compared to the Prophet 08, the latter has much more features and does at least equal the sound quality of the Voyager.
I think that really depends on which features are important to the user? No? The Prophet 08 is about as vanilla as synths can get, at least in my eyes. Two DCO's, and 1 lowpass filter are so 1980's. The only things that make the Prophet 08 stand above something like
a Roland JX-8P are the interface and more modulation options.
The Voyager, on the other hand, offers two voltage controlled filters, one high pass and one low pass, each with variable polarity. This allows for some interesting filter configurations, like bandpass filtering with 18db of highpass and 6db of lowpass. This is impossible on most other synths, unless you are running something like Nord Moduar or have a real modular with multiple filters.
Not to mention the beefy VCO's on the Voyager which allow you to blend between waveshapes.
THM said:
Don't forget Dave Smith was the designer of some great vintage classics like the classic Prophet-series...
Ehhhh....Dave Smith's synths only sounded as good as the chips that he sourced. What he did is create the digital logic that allowed for SSM chips (in his earliest synths) and eventually CEM chips (in his later synths) to work together as one polyphonic instrument, with capabilities such as digital patch storage. He didn't actually design the sound producing components himself. Not that his contributions to electronic music aren't noteworthy (har har), but I wouldn't attribute the actual timbre of his instruments to him. If SSM chips never came out, there would never have been a Prophet 5.
THM said:
And also don't forget the Voyager is only monophonic, one of his worst features if you ask me (unless you have a lot of $$ and combine several Voyager racks)...
Cheers.
The original poster already has polyphonic synths in his arsenal though. I think the Voyager would fill a good niche in his studio.
TWJMusic said:
You do realize that you're plunking down $1795 for a monophonic analog synth, right?
Look inside a Voyager sometime, and then look inside a Prophet 08. It'll make more sense then.