Any sane person would have given up on trying to put all of that in a 3 rack space box. But not Carmine!
Page 8 of the “Octave Plateau Voyetra Eight Teaching Manual” has the signal flow charts (https://wohmart.com/v8/v8_user.pdf). And a handy Hex/Dec conversion table in the back!
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That’s an amazing diagram. Maybe whoever made it had “inside knowledge”? It seems pretty accurate to me. But it is just the modulation system (like it says). All the stuff like midi, arpeggiators, sequencers, and auto-tune didn’t use any of that. That stuff was straight from the CPU to the dac (on digimod?) to the VCOs and VCAs. btw, the V-8 came out before midi, but when midi was announced we changed the layout of the CPU board to have midi I/O and offered that as an update. I think that was called “mkII”. It was the very first rack-mount MIDI synths, beating the Roland mks-20 by several months.
Just looked through the rest of the manual ( Octave Plateau Voyetra Eight Teaching Manual” (https://wohmart.com/v8/v8_user.pdf ). and there are a bunch of schematics/flow charts in it. Pages 74-77 are pretty detailed.
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Here’s your Voyetra skin for the SFZ Player. My InkScape skills are still lacking. A little off-center.
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haha, pretty cool.
Thanks, I’m just looking at the Audio diagram now trying to figure out which modules to choose-Squinky ones would be rather apt:
VCOs -EV3
VCF-Stairway {?} Vult ? 24db
ADSRs -Loads of choices-any preferences
Mini mixers-Nysthi, VCV
White noise-Bogaudio -Noise
Lfo-Chopper {?}/Bogaudio LFOs
VCAs-any preferences
Arpeggiator
Would that cover the audio side? Should this go into another thread, can I copy and paste all this Voyetra 8 loveliness into a New Topic? Anyone know if it will work. Thank you Squinky for being so helpful and marvellous.
I love that track. I remember watching that part of the video with confusion, as a rack-mounted synth was not something I had ever encountered or considered. At the time, I thought it was just another moment of pure MTV theatricality. Like what, is she adjusting the thermostat to make it cooler or something? 
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Well the novelty of things, can still surprise us all!! True it is one of the many great tracks by New Order! Love the long section by all the band in the middle of the track, it just makes it so special!
a good question. Judging by where her hand is that could be the left side volume or detune knob. I’m pretty sure that live she did a lot of latched arpeggiator stuff. So It’s actually possible that dramatic knob turn is bringing in a pre-latched arpeggio. ???
Later-day Rush. Wake up this moaning with “Red Sector A”, played and looked it on Wikipedia. I never knew the bass player was named Gary Weinrib or the tell of his parenta as survivors of the Holocaust. But I always love the synth accents in Rush music and even in the switchback to guitar and drum only in the latter years, Alex Lifeson absolutely HOWL like a banshee often.
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Saw the movie recently - it was not bad. I had the good fortune to be in a band that opened for Mike D’s “Big Fat Love” at the Pyramid Club;
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More sampling:
While making space in my daughters school bag this morning, I found this written on the back of one of her workbooks "I’m just a twenty first " so I’ve had this stuck in my head all day 
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I’m only listening to brbr deng today.
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This starts the day well.
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Today it’s this, after being reminded of Steve Davis and his adventures in modular synths.
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