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Re: [Doepfer_a100] MOTU Volta

2009-01-17 by Sean Williams

I agree that the VOLTA looks amazing at first glance, but for me, the 
great strength of analogue synthesis is the hands-on control and the 
luxury of being able to get away from the screen. Sure, it's cool to 
be able to get the better control output resolution from your DAW, 
but it's still fundamentally unsatisfying to rely on drawing ramps, 
curves and other control data rather than feeling them.

Perhaps I'm mistaken but from what I understand, VOLTA is only a one 
way system which, because of DC protection on all (?) interface 
inputs, does not allow for CV control i.e. actual performance - to be 
recorded.

... so we're still waiting for somebody to design a DC capable, CV 
recorder. Otherwise, even with this new VOLTA app, we're still going 
to have to use Morton Subotnik's ghost tracks method if we want to 
record actual performances of CV data.

(I'll probably buy VOLTA when it's released though as I'm sure it'll 
be useful for lots of stuff!)

sean


>David wrote:
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>>  The idea has been around for a while with a few academics in the
>>  world
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>><http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1992>http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1992
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>><<http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1992>http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1992>
>>
>>  SO had the internet :-).
>>
>>
>
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