The User Bank is where you load/save, transmit/receive and edit Voyager preset banks. Preset banks are loaded into the program either from the Voyager or from a user stored preset bank, and are displayed in the User Bank list.
Note:
A closer look at the User Bank
reveals that the list window has room to display only about a third of the
preset bank at one time, so a scrolling window is used to view all of the 128
presets. Mac users who have a mouse with a scroll wheel will find that the wheel
works to scroll through the preset list. Simply move the mouse cursor anywhere
onto the list and use the wheel to scroll up and down, no clicking necessary!
You can also use the Macintosh keyboard
to navigate the list, but you must select a preset in the list first. The
reason is that there are actually two preset lists on the Editor window; one for
the User Bank (as shown above) and one for the Librarian. Without your input the
program has no idea which of the two lists you wish to control.
You can use the following keyboard keys to navigate the list:
Pressing the PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN keys scrolls the list in blocks of 34 presets at a time.
The UP and DOWN keys will scroll one preset at a time, up or down respectively.
Pressing the END key moves to the end of the list, while the HOME key returns to the beginning of the list.
You can also change the sort order of the listing. Although the User Preset Bank defaults to displaying presets 1 through 128, you can change the order by clicking in the No. column in the User Preset Bank list. This will reverse the sorting order, starting at preset 128:
A second click in the No.
column toggles the sort order back to its original state.
Clicking in the Preset column causes the User Preset Bank to be sorted alphabetically by the preset name (from 0-9, A-Z):
A second click in the Preset column reverses the sort order (from Z-A, 9-0).
Buttons for Load, Save, Receive, and Transmit appear above the User Preset Bank display to provide for frequently used bank operations. The Load and Save buttons allow you to load or save banks to/from the computer. The Receive and Transmit buttons allow banks to be moved to/from the Voyager.
Clicking the Load button will present you with a load dialog box similar to the one shown on the next page. The actual view you see will be dependant on your Macintosh View settings, but the idea here is that you’ll have to navigate to where the Voyager bank files are stored on your system. Since these files can reside anywhere you chose when you save them, it’s a good idea to create a special folder or a specific location to store them. This will make it easier to find your stored banks (and library files) when you’re ready to load them back into the program.
In the figure above we created a folder called Voyager Banks located on the Macintosh Desktop, and used it to store some example bank files. Note that program bank files have the extension ‘.mvr’. When loading a bank file, the Editor Librarian program will allow you to see all file types, but only those files with an ‘.mvr’ extension can be loaded as a bank. All others will be ignored.
Enter a suitable file name for your preset bank in the “Save As:” name field. Clicking on the Save button here will save the file to the location specified and automatically append ‘.mvr’ to the file name. In the above figure, the file “Other Voyager Presets “ will be saved to the Macintosh Desktop as “Other Voyager Presets.mvr”.
You can select a different storage location by clicking on the blue down arrow button to the right of the “Save As:” name field. This will result in an enlarged window that will allow you to navigate to any location for storage. In the example below, we’ve navigated to the ‘Voyager Banks’ folder on the Macintosh Desktop (depending on you Macintosh systems settings, your view may look somewhat different):
Clicking the Save
button in this window will automatically add the ‘.mvr’ extension to the
file name and store the bank into the Voyager Banks folder.
To receive banks from the Voyager, click the Receive button (or select "Receive User Bank” from the MIDI menu). The receive bank window appears. Clicking on the Start button will initiate the transfer from the Voyager. If for some reason your MIDI interface cannot keep up with fast MIDI messages, you can adjust the timing by adding a delay in milliseconds using the scrolling adjustment:
To transmit the User Bank from the Editor to the Voyager, click the Transmit button (or select "Transmit User Bank" from the MIDI menu). The transmit window appears. Clicking the Start button will transmit the contents of the User Bank. As with the Receive function, if for some reason your MIDI interface cannot keep up with fast MIDI messages, you can adjust the timing by adding a delay in milliseconds with the scrolling adjustment:
The transmitted data will be written
into the Voyager bank memory overriding the existing presets.
Now we’ll address a few other functions in the User Bank that haven’t yet been covered.
The Edit
button takes you to the Editor window, where you can edit the currently selected
preset. A complete explanation of the Editor
window is saved for later in this guide (see page 27).
The Use loaded data checkbox is a feature that changes the way the program works with the Voyager. When the box is unchecked (disabled), selecting a preset from the User Bank switches the Voyager to the corresponding preset. The Voyager sends its preset data to the User Bank. This guaranties synchronization between the Voyager and the program.
When the Use
loaded data checkbox is checked (enabled), the selected preset data from the
User Bank is sent to Voyager's edit buffer for editing and audition. This
feature helps to browse through presets in the User Bank without the need for
dumping the entire bank to the Voyager.
When the Auto Dump checkbox is checked (enabled), a selected preset from the Librarian preset list is automatically sent to the Voyager's edit buffer for editing/audition. When Auto Dump is unchecked (disabled), no data is sent to the Voyager.
The Bank menu (shown below) includes items (‘Load User Bank Data’ and ‘Save User Bank Data As’) that duplicate the functions of the Load and Save buttons mentioned above. It also includes commands to generate a New Bank (creates a bank of 128 default presets) as well as commands to Copy, Paste, Rename and Initialize selected presets in the User Bank.
Note: In addition to selecting Rename
from the Bank menu, you can also change the name of a preset by double-clicking
on the desired preset name in the User Bank.
Selecting Rename will display a message dialog as shown:
The message dialog box shows the Preset
name field (upper right) and how the name will be displayed in the Voyager’s
LCD (on the left). Clicking in the preset name field allows you to change (or
completely replace) the preset name up to a maximum of 24 characters (12 per
line). Additional characters will be ignored. Clicking OK
will store the change and close the dialog box. Clicking Cancel will close the dialog box without changes.
The Editor Librarian program also provides quick access to the four Moog Voyager factory preset banks: the Anniversary Edition, Signature Edition, Twolf25 (Thomas Wolf bank) and Zon25 (Zon Vern Piles bank). To load any one of these banks, select the Bank menu, Moog Banks, and the desired factory bank as shown:
Note: Since the User Bank can contain only one bank
at a time, it’s a good idea to always save the current preset bank prior to
loading a new preset bank. Failure to do this may cause you to lose any of your
Voyager programming masterpieces!
The status of any User Bank data operation (loading, saving, or selecting Moog (factory) banks) is presented in a blue status display located in the lower left part of the Main Window. Here we’ve just loaded the Anniversary Edition presets into the User Bank:
Presets can be moved from the User Bank to the Librarian by:
Load From User Bank Data command in the Librarian menu
Note:
Because the User Bank and the Librarian are two different functions in the same
window, each has its own separate copy & paste commands. For this reason, if
you wish to move presets using copy/paste, you should choose COPY from the Bank
menu, and then choose PASTE from the Librarian menu. You can simplify this
process using the shortcut commands (refer to the Bank and Librarian menus, or
see the shortcut command list at the end of this Guide). Note that when pasting
a preset to the Librarian, the preset will be pasted into the currently selected
category. That said, the easiest way to move presets between the User Bank and
Librarian is to simply drag and drop the selected preset.
Tip: If you need to reorder the presets in the User
Bank (for an upcoming gig, for example), simply copy the entire bank into the
Library (use the Librarian’s ‘Load From User Bank Data’ command) and drag
and drop selected presets back into the User Bank as desired.