Each produces one voice of the maximum 8. The Voyetra-8 has 8 separate programmable analog voice cards. This may seem somewhat unusual, but in the day of the Voyetra, MIDI was in its infancy, and SysEx was not yet a proven strategy for transmitting and storing system information. The dump is not MIDI System Exclusive (SysEx) it is encoded into controller changes and other common MIDI data, which any sequencer can handle. The memory, which stores all of the user presets and parameters, can be dumped via MIDI to any sequencer. When connected in stereo, one four-voice sound appears at each output if the instrument is in Dual or Layer mode, or the eight voices are each panned in different places between the outputs if the instrument is in Whole-8 mode. The rear panel has a mono output and a stereo output. These pages are used when setting up the instrument and programming sounds. Extra 'pages' are accessed by hitting certain shift key combinations, after which most of the front-panel controls change function. However, the instrument is more complicated than it looks there are fourteen 'pages' of controls. The front panel has numerous buttons and knobs, which are active in live performance. Rear mounted plugs and a large heat sink make at least 4' rear clearance advisable. It is approximately 16 inches deep in the rack, and weighs around 78 lbs. Most units are bowed at the top and so cannot be placed below other rack mounted equipment more than a few inches deep. The Voyetra-8 is a 19' rack-mountable device, 3 rack units high at the face. It comes with the required XLR to Midi cables (crazy right?) and power cable so ready to be played. Not sure what the shipping will actually be but wil guesstimate here. It is around 75 pounds so local pickup is recommend but I will ship it if you like. It comes with a little cheat sheet for the programming options and the full manual in PDF can be found online.

I am the original owner having bought this at Manny's music NYC when it still was rocking along. The Voyetra though has a HUGE sound that cannot be matched by anything out there. This is one of the first 8-voice synthesizers to be made along with the Jupiter 8.

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