Good midi-to-cv interfaces? (that aren't too expensive)

Cirrus Winery · Post by **Cirrus Winery** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:40 am

Encore has the Expressionist that looks fantastic (but the price is not so fantastic (600 usd)). Doepfer has a small one with aftertouch/pitch/velocity support and that'll work well with my controller keyboard but what i'm really interested in is being able to somehow have duophonic support from the same keyboard which is not possible with the doepfer model. From what i understand the Encore converter DOES seem to support that, though.

Intended use is with a dotcom system.

tyrannosaurus mark · Post by **tyrannosaurus mark** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:51 am

Kenton pro solo?

Post by **wiss** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:54 am

novation basstation rack...I m not sure about douphonic, I know midi message are poly..

Post by **cornutt** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:05 am

Well, for really inexpensive, provided you have some DIY skills:

* Synhaus Midijack
* PAIA MIDI2CV8

Post by **meatballfulton** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:02 pm

Pro Solo doesn't support duophonic CV.

The PAiA does and is the only low cost solution. You of course have to build it, but it's not that complicated.

Cirrus Winery · Post by **Cirrus Winery** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:12 pm

meatballfulton wrote:Pro Solo doesn't support duophonic CV.

The PAiA does and is the only low cost solution. You of course have to build it, but it's not that complicated.

How does the duophony (?) work on the PAiA model? Highest and lowest go to separate CV out? The documentation mentions separate channels, but doesn't that mean i'd need two keyboards? (one for each channel)

Post by **meatballfulton** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:58 pm

Cirrus Winery wrote:[How does the duophony (?) work on the PAiA model?

Two sets of CV/gates which alternate as you play on a single MIDI channel. Patch the pitch CVs to two VCOs and the gate CVs to two EGs.

Post by **madtheory** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:09 pm

Or to quote Paia:
"rotational assignment of data from one midi channel"

http://www.paia.com/midi2cv.asp

Cirrus Winery · Post by **Cirrus Winery** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:25 am

meatballfulton wrote:
Cirrus Winery wrote:[How does the duophony (?) work on the PAiA model?
Two sets of CV/gates which alternate as you play on a single MIDI channel. Patch the pitch CVs to two VCOs and the gate CVs to two EGs.

That's so logical i don't know why i didn't think of it. Thanks. I'll be getting one of these things then.