Topic: My Minimoog Voyager just spontaneously BROKE out of nowhere!

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Posted at August 20, 2005, 11:10 pm:

PLEASE HELP!!!! I brought my 50th Anniversary Edition Minimoog Voyager over to my friend's place and hooked it up to his P3 Sequencer (analogue sequencer by Sequentrix). The Sequencer works perfectly with his other synths, but it completely destroyed my Moog.

I guess it was sending some crazy sysex data to it (that maybe the Moog couldn't understand?) and screwed it up. I don't know. Are these things calibrated before they're shipped off, and is that calibrated setting locked? Is there a way to completely reset my Minimoog and recalibrate it or whatever is necessary? I don't know, but I'm currently devestated.

PROBLEMS THAT I'VE IDENTIFIED

1. The Master Volume knob now no longer has any effect. The screen still displays the change in value, but there is no difference in the sound.

2. The headphone jack now produces no noise.

3. When the Moog is turned on, it makes a crazy "blurrrr geeeeee waaaaaaah" noise.

4. Whanever a patch is loaded up, the synth plays and holds the note (as though there were a stuck key). The keyboard seems to be indefinitely in HOLD mode (and yeah I've tried flipping the EXT/Keyboard On Red switch on the bottom right). This held note will sustain the last note played.

5. Alot of my presets sound different, as though the filter has been adjusted and made slightly more resonanty and I could swear that the cutoff filter has been brought down on each one.

6. I'm not sure how to check this, but I'm pretty sure that the Touch Screen is sustaining and holding on a specific point (which might explain number 5)... I dunno.

7. Various knobs seem to be behaving erratically... Some seem to not even really work at all anymore, but I can't be sure because it's such a pain to get around the interface now that it constantly emits this horrible drone.

THINGS I'VE TRIED TO DO TO FIX IT (NONE OF WHICH HAVE WORKED)

1. I tried installing the newerish OS 2.5 System Software (I was previously running 2.1 when this stuff happened) via Sysex librarian. No change.

2. I tried downgrading back to 2.1, didn't work... so I upgraded back to 2.5. Still screwed up.

3. I took it down to a synth shop and they let me hook it up to their Voyager floor model. I tried to do a direct transfer of the System Rom, Boot, Preset Sounds, Panel Presets, EVERYTHING. I went through and compared the settings on every parameter manually and still nothing changed.

4. I went to that submenu inside of the Copyright Information submodule and tried to reset the Master Volume and Headphone Volume preset relativity parameters. Nothing.

5. I pretty much went through everything and tried every combination of On/Off parameters accross the board.

I have no idea what to do. Do you think trying to use the Mac OSX software program that interfaces with the Moog will help? I think I'll buy it anyway because I'm GOING to get this fixed. Please help.

Original of the message was taken from http://www.moogmusic.com/forum/

Replies:

The Voyagers are only known to be calibrated with real hardware trimme...

You should contact Moogmusic.

<< Do you think trying to use the Mac OSX software program that ...

You could send it in for the version 3.


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