[sdiy] Powertran Transcendent 2000 CV/Gate mod?

[Seb Francis]

Hi John,

Yes this sounds about right .. I CV'ed up my T2000 a long time ago 
(before I knew very much about electronics) and I ending up installing a 
toggle switch on the back panel to switch from internal CV to external 
CV (so the keyboard CV doesn't add to the external CV).  I also ending 
up installing a relay which was triggered by the external Gate to 
simulate pressing a key.

As I said, I didn't know much about electronics in those days!  There 
are certainly *much* more elegant ways to do this (although this 
solution has been working for me for many years!)  One day I will get 
round to re-doing it .. the whole synth could do with an overhaul anyway.

Here are the construction details and schematics ..
http://port23.co.uk/synthdiy/trancendant/
This should make the job of modifying it a bit easier.

Cheers,
Seb



john tuffen wrote:

>Well, last night I connected up my Transcendent 2000 for the first time in about
>five years (it's been alternately lent out to beginning musician friends, or
>just lying around!) - and I'm pleasantly surprised by its sound...
>
>However - when I connected it to my Kenton Pro2000, I found that its behaviour
>over CV/Gate was a little odd - gate only takes effect if a key is pressed
>down, and CV is added to the note held on the keyboard.
>
>Questions:
>1) is this normal?
>2) is there a mod to give me a more conventional CV/Gate behaviour (like my SH2
>- where the external CV/Gate effectively disables the keyboard)
>
>Of course, now my OSCar has nowhere to sit, and is languishing sadly in a
>corner... I need more space, and a bigger mixer ;-)
>
>john..
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