CV-to-MIDI

[Scot Gresham Lancaster]

One easy hack I have done to do this is to buy a Peavey PC1600 fader box or
equivalent...open it up and find where the wiper on all the linear pots goes
to, as I remember they all feed to a header on the peavey. By cutting the
traces just before the header you can put a normalling subminiature mono
jack for each of the traces you have cut. ( You might want to put a 5 volt
zener across the jack for over voltage protection.)

When nothing is plugged into the sub-mini the fader box functions normally,
but when you plug in the 0-5V thermin thingy or whatever it is it acts like
a fader on the peavey. From the operating system on the peavey you can
define it as whatever, note-on, controller, pitcbend...etc

hope that helps...  

At 04:12 AM 2/22/98 +0100, Doénado, el Ur wrote:
>Hi,
>
>(this is an electroacoustic music composer from Barcelona making a
>little research for transmitting gestures to computer from CV
>controllers like "optical theremin" or so)
>
>Someone knows about the schem., PCB layout, etc., of a
>
>CV-to-MIDI converter ???
>
>The idea is a circuit that translate the data from an "optical
>theremin", FootCntr, etc. to MIDI. I do not need to specify the MIDI
>controller number from there, just send the data in MIDI without the
>limitation of using the FootCtrl or VolPed inputs of a MIDI synth. I
>hope I have explained myself (excuse my english!)
>
>Thank you in advance
>
>
>Doenado, el Ur
>* * * * * * * 
>
>
>PS: by "optical theremin" I mean the circuit you can find at the May
>1995 Electronic Musician magazine (it works very good)
>
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