[sdiy] Octave Cat woes

[Tim Parkhurst]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:41 PM, rob hukin <rob at audiocircus.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Has anyone here successfully managed to get an early (pre-SRM) Cat working with a MIDI/CV converter? I have two in for repair, both now fixed and happy to drive each other using the series patch (CV/Gate) connections.

Have you looked at the level of the Gate signal? I don't know about
the Octave stuff, but if it's anything like an ARP (and it kind of
is), then it needs a pretty healthy gate signal - something on the
order of +10V or more. Perhaps the gate signal from the MIDI-CV
converters is too low?


Tim (waiting with gated breath) Servo
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