[sdiy] USB to CV

Richard Wentk richard at skydancer.com
Fri Apr 15 02:11:44 CEST 2005


At 17:30 14/04/2005, neil.johnson97 at ntlworld.com wrote:

> > Okay. But how are you going to integrate it into a musical environment? 
> The
> > point about audio interfaces is that it's a case of plug 'n play.
>
>Well, this *is* Synth __DIY__!!

Yes, but there's DIY for the sake of producing something that works and DIY 
for the sake of pointless electro-noodling self-referential gizmology.

I don't do the second sort, and I'm not interested in it.

>I think you'd have a hard time getting Cubase to output a control curve to 
>any audio output, be it USB, Firewire, PCI or otherwise.  I suppose you 
>could create a _very_ long mono audio sample of a DC constant and use the 
>control curves to modulate that in some interesting way.

I already explained this.

>I guess this bounces back to the original poster and ask exactly what the 
>intended control source is?  Off-the-shelf software, or something custom??

I get the impression they hadn't gotten that far. ;-)

Richard





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