If you have a mixer that works with CV (I picked up a doepfer one on ebay for $12, but
that was a fluke), yoy can do all sorts of useful things. For instance you could easily mix in
a constant 2 or 3 volts. Some EMLs even have a utility voltage out. Also you can send your
CV converter to 2 mixer inputs if it won't do 1.2v on it's own.
As for the External Osc Control, the one on mine is fine for an external LFO or something
but mine at least tracked exponential not linear as far as I could tell. Though I don't know
if I messed with the range enough. I do remember I needed at least 3v to get it doing
much.
Did you get both envelopes to fire? The trigger input on my unit I think intentionally only
fired one EG. This of course can be a good feature once you gain contol of the other by
some other means. That's one of the reasons I gave up with a patchcord interfacae and
looked at the keyboard connector when I interfaced mine to CV
--- In emlsynth@yahoogroups.com, "Dan Levey" <Leftbrain@...> wrote:
>
> I'm a bit late on getting in on this but I have managed to play my
> 101 by Midi with a bit crazy workaround but all external and needing
> a computer sequencer.
>
> I found that the "External Osc Control" input is the only one that
> can control all 4 Osc's equally. You have to turn the Control Knob
> all the way to the left as well. The problem is, This input is not
> scaled for anywhere near 1 - 1.2v/Oct, it needs about 3 or more
> volts/oct to track correctly. As a quick solution, I went into
> Cubase and set up a transform midi track to multiply any note I play
> by 3.2. That makes the 101 track perfect with about a 2 octave range
> before midi notes run out. I can play the 101 keyboard to set the
> octave ranges my midi will control.
>
> Also, if you patch Gate into the External Env control, you will find
> that there is no ENV 1 External control input. What I did is buy a
> Doepfer envelope and power connector and have that patched into the
> Filter CV so it triggers along with everything else.
>
> Lots of work but it all works for me.
>
> Dan
> http://www.REwireMusic.com
>