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actualidiot wrote:

JonnyAngle wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAnhjIUYNhI[/youtube]

I use the beatstep to control the CT5 in mode 3.

There are 2 loops active on the CT5 and all 16 voltages are the same on the beatstep. Then I turn the last voltage slightly off and the 2 loops go in and out of synch with each other.

Do not smoke a bowl and do this for hours on end.

What's that sexiness at the top of the board?

A Clock A Pickholder And the DR. SCIENTIST MOTHERFUCKING SPECTRUM ANALYZER!!!!!!!

Used an Arturia Beatstep to control the frequency on Randy’s Revenge and sent its gate to the side chain on the WMD Protostar. Carrier out on the Randy’s revenge is being fed back through randy for an octave up/wave folding type effect. Env+ out is controlling LFO rate on the Protostar and the LFO is then being sent to the Pretty Years. At this point, I should just get started on Modular, but money.......

https://www.instagram.com/p/BS6SgmkAgIr/

I know it's all passe, not to mention kinda gateway-modular-but-not-"real"-modular, and all the cool kids have moved on to racks and skiffs and clouds (and spliffs?)... but I'm bumping because yeah, CV on pedals is still where it's at for me.

Currently using a xiwi matrix mixer for my CV signals with great success. This was kind of a pipe dream which turned out to work quite well. I have four CV inputs - two LFOs from a dual broadcast, tweakable envelope from a dreadbox epsilon, and a koma kommander for CV hand waving - routed to four outputs - hyde filter, acidbox, shapeshift mountain, and pretty years. So happy with this setup... it's lets me switch up the CV without messing with any cables, and also allows me to mix the inputs, so I can have two different LFOs modulating something, or a mix of envelope and LFO, or LFO plus Kommmander etc etc ... and it's as easy as a few knob twists to re-route everything.

Also have a Dwarfcraft ARF and Happiness with their own little CV love-fest going on. Different voltage levels are currently keeping them somewhat quarantined from the rest... BUT... I'm able to send a trigger out from the epsilon envelope to the ARF, so it can be envelope triggered (but with its own attack and decay controls), and then that ARF envelope works really nicely fed to the Happiness. Happiness LFO can also go to the ARF if desired, but it's not quite as magical. Was going to get one of baremountain's CV converters too, to better integrate the Dwarfcraft peds, but I'm feeling like things are already complex enough as is. Plus I'd need a bigger matrix mixer

I don't really have a comment to make but i just wanted to say i like all of those words........


Sounds like an awesome setup!


I didn't know the Dwarfcraft stuff had different voltage levels. I better be careful because i've been mixing them with everything!

I've been using my moogerfoogers for CV quite a bit lately. Favorite patch so far is MF-102 Carrier out into MF-101 freq. Resonance needs to be turned up to 7-8 on the MF-101 so it is acting as an oscillator and then you have a simple FM synth with two moogerfoogers. I need a 1/4 inch CV attenuator and refuse to pay 375 for the CP-251 so I will but building my own over the next week as well as a multiple to spilt signals. Gonna have a sick little pedalboard synth here soon as I have the MF-103 as a LFO out also if I need it. Another ring modulator would be sick but might go for the freq box next.

Ruiner wrote:I didn't know the Dwarfcraft stuff had different voltage levels. I better be careful because i've been mixing them with everything!

Yeah, they run +/- 12V. I use that straight with the Pretty Years pretty often with no problems, but it makes digi pedzz freak out. If you're interested in one of my attenuator/amplifier boxes, it might do wonders for syncing your new Euro with any non-Dwarfies you've got that take CV. Also it would let you use an EHX 8-step Program as a sequencer for your Euro PM me if you're interested! I got more boards in & I'm just waiting on the final piece (new switches) to arrive in the mail on Tuesday before I get 3 more churned out.

Also I hooked up my 0-coast with the Happiness, Pretty Years, & Twin Stags and let me just say CV on pedals is going to forever be where it's at for me. I can send envelopes from my 0-coast (which can be set to play a sequence) to filters on my guitar board which automatically locks those things in real tight when playing both simultaneously. It's totally dreamy. Working on integrating my Koma Field Kit which I just got assembled, so everyday objects can be used to send envelopes to my guitar and synth. Yesterday I was controlling the clock on a sequence with a water level detector, just tipping over a jar with the detector on its lid to move the sequence forward one step. It's silly & impractical now, but a more useful generative music system could easily be created on that principle.

Do you ever use the 0-coast to control the CBA pedals with your adaptor? I have talked to Joel about using a gate/trigger for tap tempo, but as far as I understand it, the CV on those is 0-5V. That works well with the 0-5V from the Protostar, though.

Yeah, you can definitely do that! I haven't ever hooked it up to my Spectre (the only CBA pedal I own) but I can do so & shoot it yr way on Instagram if you want! Just gotta wait for some switches to arrive in the mail on Tuesday. I've only verified it works on 3.3V range by plugging it up to a voltmeter, so this'll be a good practice run anyways.
The 0-coast (according to the manual, not a voltmeter) has a CV range of +/- 10V, though it gets powered by a 15V DC adapter.

Yeah! That'd be cool! I'm really close to getting an 0-coast before I totally fall down the modular rabbit hole. I really want to try out the random voltage into the CBA Tonal Recall to get some randomness in the modulation. Could be really cool if it was synced to the same randomness in whatever patch, too. Just need to finish my proposal first...

baremountain wrote:

Ruiner wrote:I didn't know the Dwarfcraft stuff had different voltage levels. I better be careful because i've been mixing them with everything!

Yeah, they run +/- 12V.

True, the circuits run at 12, but the LFOs measure around +/- 10. I guess the circuit eats the other two volts.

Alright, here's a video with no editing that I made to show the difference between sending straight Euro level LFO vs attenuated. No guitar, the only sounds you hear is the regen from the Spectre, which is what I'm controlling with the Happiness's LFO out.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgyWP62ex8Mp[/youtube]

Holy craps-
I just hacked my 856 to spit out a trigger voltage. I clocked a drum machine with it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BTRhLS5BeXn ... dwarfcraft

It was really easy, too. I'll do a write up.

baremountain wrote:Alright, here's a video with no editing that I made to show the difference between sending straight Euro level LFO vs attenuated. No guitar, the only sounds you hear is the regen from the Spectre, which is what I'm controlling with the Happiness's LFO out.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgyWP62ex8Mp[/youtube]

Cool! I'm pretty sure Spectre is good for 0-5V (at least that's what the manual says). Also, if you're using CV on CBA pedals, you need to have a TRS plug where the ring is actually left floating in order to make sure you're getting it right. That may be what you get that weird thing with the preset light flashing. Might also be worth sending the video to Joel to see if he has any comments on it.

Does anyone make a thing that will take a guitar signal and turn its envelope into CV?