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I'm just excited to have a nice midi 16-step sequencer in it. Too bad I'll still need a Midi-CV convertor for most modular stuff.

• anigbrowl 16y ago
  You're kinda stuck there, because the capacitors on the audio output of your phone/soundcard/digital synth filter out out the DC that your CV inputs want. I know people who have removed the caps on keyboard outputs and got working audio -> CV but it's pretty drastic unless you're very electronics-savvy. One cheap workaround you might want to investigate, depending on what analog modules you have, is to send a fixed, high-frequency oscillator out from your digital gear to the input of an analog envelope follower, and modulate the digital oscillator with a digital LFO (using MIDI to play with the LFO frequency). This is likely to yield 'interesting' sounds but unless you have precision gear and can do log-linear scaling (eg freq. > pitch) it'll be hard to do anything useful. PAIA has a fairly cheap converter in module rack form factor, just in case you didn't know: http://www.paia.com/midi2cv.asp http://www.paia.com/midi2cv.asp
  • meatsock 16y ago
    a less cheap workaround is http://www.motu.com/products/software/volta http://www.motu.com/products/software/volta it'll work with anything with DC-coupled TRS outputs, i.e. any decent quality soundcard. very glad to see more music tech threads on HN. i think the iphone is gonna revolutionize computer music, the problem from the beginning has been the interface -- WIMP doesnt make a lot of sense for the way music works in the brain, imo