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I was looking at the mini ark, tracer city in the new smaller enclosures and my mind was spinning at the features and CV capabilities. Can the pedal be used with a guitar and trigger CV or would a CV device alter the guitar signal?

I have 3. Divine Hammer, Mini Ark, and Wow and Flutter. Divine Hammer has CV in which sounds really cool. While reductively it's harmonic trem, trem fuzz, and saturator, it's a pretty open ended box. Mini Ark only does CV out, not in. Wow and Flutter, has no CV. I just skimmed the manual for tracer city and you should be fine with a variety of CV sources. It will alter the effect controls, not the actual guitar signal (I'm not sure if I'm reading what you wrote correctly?).

IMO, get a PURPLL instead of a Mini Ark. It costs a lot less and is arguably more flexible. It does not have the 'Magic' selector but you can live without that. PURPLL has move CV in. There are other more fully featured PLLs on the market now. Remember, these pedals came out around 2010. A lot has changed.

You can live without a Wow and Flutter... the market is inundated on the glitch envelope delay (tape machine) thing.

Tracer City... I don't personally have one but I would imagine a little intuitiveness with other fully featured filter pedals can get you into similar territory (WMD Protostar, which I have... and a Dwarfcraft Happiness, I do not have). A used protostar is considerably less expensive than a Tracer City.

Hope this was helpful. Just trying to look out.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryGkSG222EE[/youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryGkSG222EE

For more fully featured filter pedals (I just talked to UC about this) Martone Audio AKA Robot Factory. They sound great... fully featured plenty of CV... the problem is 1. They are not cheap 2. I guess I see 'Production Models' available now but... they are (were?) somewhat rare. I got mine (Photron Filter) from ILF's Gunnar during his liquidation sale. Thanks m8!

One more "outside of the box" solution is... get a Behringer clone of the MS-20 used. Patch your guitar in and BOOM CV and filter heaven! Plus... you have a synth at your disposal now! And if you go Euro, it will integrate into that seamlessly.

Peace. Love. Follow your heart!

$harkToootth wrote:I have 3. Divine Hammer, Mini Ark, and Wow and Flutter. Divine Hammer has CV in which sounds really cool. While reductively it's harmonic trem, trem fuzz, and saturator, it's a pretty open ended box. Mini Ark only does CV out, not in. Wow and Flutter, has no CV. I just skimmed the manual for tracer city and you should be fine with a variety of CV sources. It will alter the effect controls, not the actual guitar signal (I'm not sure if I'm reading what you wrote correctly?).

IMO, get a PURPLL instead of a Mini Ark. It costs a lot less and is arguably more flexible. It does not have the 'Magic' selector but you can live without that. PURPLL has move CV in. There are other more fully featured PLLs on the market now. Remember, these pedals came out around 2010. A lot has changed.

You can live without a Wow and Flutter... the market is inundated on the glitch envelope delay (tape machine) thing.

Tracer City... I don't personally have one but I would imagine a little intuitiveness with other fully featured filter pedals can get you into similar territory (WMD Protostar, which I have... and a Dwarfcraft Happiness, I do not have). A used protostar is considerably less expensive than a Tracer City.

Hope this was helpful. Just trying to look out.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryGkSG222EE[/youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryGkSG222EE

Totally appreciate the insight!! Thank you!!