Thomas Henry's MIDI-to-CV Connection

[Tony Allgood]

>is it really cost-effective these days to build one's own midi-cv
converter?

Yes! www.techrepairs.freeserve.co.uk/mididac.htm

Less than half the price of the Kenton Pro Solo one. Which gives you 60
quid to spend on other things. And very suitable for modular builders.
However, you do have to build it, put it in a case etc. But it does have
more outputs and real knobs :-) And I wonder whether Kenton have solved
the peculiar behaviour that the Pro-2 exhibited of not taking any lowest
octave note information....

And if you are in the US. Tom Gamble does a nice little midi-CV PCB as
well.

But for Polyphonic midi-CV thats more complicated. The very good Kenton
Pro-4 is excellent but still too pricey at 500 pounds for this single
job. As four separate midi-CVs it seems good value. The Prologue, also
made in the UK, is abysmal. It suffers badly from glide on every note,
and digital noise seeps into every analogue output. And the midi filter
doesn't work at all. I told them about it, did they want to know??? No!

Paul Perry's Frostwave multi convertor looks very good, and much cheaper
than the Kenton. Any chance of a UK distributor Paul? I don't know about
the Encore, but again that seems to be very good, but I have never seen
it advertised over here.

I must add at this point I want a four voice midi-CV convertor with
aftertouch and velocity.

Regards,

Tony Allgood  Penrith, Cumbria, England

Modular synth circuits, TB303 clone and Filter Rack
www.techrepairs.freeserve.co.uk/projects.htm
My music: www.mp3.com/taklamakan