MIDI-to-CV frustration

[rextanka at earthlink.net]

On 8/17/00 2:15 PM men in black suits forced Goddard, Duncan to write the
following:

> BUT an example of why I would build my own midi-cv: I bought a philip rees
> single channel unit expressly to use with a yamaha cs30 (Hz/v and s-trig)
> and it turned out to be absolutely pants. I had them exchange it to no
> avail- mr rees himself wanted to come round and see what was happening. I
> don't remember what he was testing it on, only that it wasn't another yamaha
> (maybe an ms10- I forget, but I know it did horrid modulation things when I
> tried it on a mono/poly).
> I'd still like to get the yamaha under midi control eventually, but I took
> the view that it was more fun using the yamaha more-or-less as it came out
> of the factory (that's another story) than trying to drag it into the 90s,
> and that maybe the rees unit would be happier doing cv/gate in american
> instead of japanese; put it on the pro-1 instead. maybe one day I will
> attempt this build, but right now it's hard enough to find time to go in
> there and even look at my synths.

Sorry to hear about your misfortunes.  I've used the Rees unit with many
synths without problem (although I should probably add that all of them are
V/Octave rather than V/Hz).  So far I've used the following:

Fenix modular
Tomg's excellent Mad Mouse
Roland SH-101
Roland SH-09

For the money I'm really pleased with the Rees unit.

Regards

Nick