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Voyager User’s Manual - Appendices
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Voyager User’s Manual - Appendices
CONTINUOUS CONTROLLER: The Voyager is a knob-laden synth. Many of its controls provide smooth,
continuous change over their parameters. Continuous Controller messages (abbreviated as ‘CCs’) are used
to effect changes in a MIDI synth much as the knobs on an analog synth. A Continuous Controller message
has a CC number (from 0-127), which is assigned to a synthesis parameter inside the receiving device. The
Voyager’s front panel controls transmit MIDI CCs, and the same parameters can be controlled externally
by MIDI CCs. The Voyager uses a non-standard implementation of Continuous Controller messages, so you
should refer to the table on page 71 for a list of CCs used for the Voyager’s parameters.
PROGRAM CHANGE: A message that tells the receiving device (synthesizer, tone generator, drum machine,
etc.) which preset (or patch, program, etc.) to select. A Program Change command can only specify 128
memory locations (0 - 127), so this command is often used in combination with a BANK SELECT command
in order to access all of the memory locations available in modern instruments.
Together, the Program Change and Bank Select comands can specify over 2 million
memory locations!
SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE: System Exclusive (SysEx) messages are used for sending information to specific
instruments in a MIDI setup. The Voyager uses SysEx messages for sending or receiving presets and for
updating the operating system.
MIDI CLOCK: A message used to define a tempo in a MIDI system and syncronize events with that tempo.
