midi2cv for ARP Odyssey mk3

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like the title says. is there anything special about the Arp Odyssey MK3 C/V that i need to know about, it's commiong my way this month and i need to get a midi2cv (i can't play those damn keys) but i was wondering if there is something i need to know about (i remember that there were two standards in c/v 1.5v/octave and some other?)

anyway witch ones are good ones, i always liked the phil rees stuff (http://www.philrees.co.uk/midi.htm) but i heard some bad stuff about timing in those units ? any suggestions on that ?

(haven't been here for awhile, nice new layout).

[steveman]

The 'standards' were 1V/oct or Hz/Volt, there was never 1.5V. The Odyssey uses 1V/oct - the Philip Rees should be fine. The Kenton stuff's supposed to be good (no personal experience), or get a BassStation Rack, MIDI -> CV ( and vice versa) with a free synth thrown in...

[Z]

EML uses 1.2 V/Oct. Atom must have thought it was 1.5V/O.

Most MIDI to CV/Gate boxes should work with the Odyssey.

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i don't know where i got the 1.5v/oct, i'm working on my midibox sid and my brain is filled with electronics information that don't make much sense really, sorry for that.

will look into the bass station (hard to get that). i see some kenton stuff new in the store that should be easy to get. poland is still the '3rd world' it's hard to get any good hardware, i heard some guy in Warsaw makes his own midi2cv boxes with LFO and stuff, i'll ask him if it will work (some very nice feature on those boxes).

thanks for the help.

[gfriden]

I own an Oddy MkII and a Kenton Pro Solo MkII but have not had the time to try them out together yet. However, the Kenton manual states explicitly that it is compatible with ARP synths like the 2600 the Odyssey and the Axxe.

[madtheory]

The Kenton Pro Solo II is bettered only by the Kenton Pro 2000, only because that has multiple outputs. Or maybe the Doepfer MxCV is the best, because it lets you use x monosynths as an x note polysynth.

But for controlling one synth, nothing beats the Pro Solo II IMHO. It has everything- assignable LFO, all the portamento options you'd ever need, tuning and scaling is flexible enough to compensate for an out of calibration synth, very flexible modulation routing of MIDI cc, velocity and mod wheel, and it's totally reliable. I've had a mk 1 for over 10 years, no problems at all in that time.

anyway witch ones are good ones, i always liked the phil rees stuff (http://www.philrees.co.uk/midi.htm) but i heard some bad stuff about timing in those units ? any suggestions on that ?

Yes, to quote the page you linked:
"Philip Rees manufactured accessories for electronic musical instruments from 1986 to April 2005, when we discontinued the manufacture of MIDI accessories.

For archive purposes, this site includes descriptions of these MIDI products. It also carries technical information about MIDI-related topics."

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well insetad all this i got a SpectralAudio ProTone http://www.spectralaudio.ch/ with a midi2cv converter built in, so i cooked two birds with one fire, cause it was cheap. Hope the synth sounds nice.