It´s hard to recognize how all is realized because it´s built in.
My Mini has CV I/Os and Gate I/Os and a separate Modulation input visible on the back and I´m using a Roland MPU-101 (if I use it).
I went back playing the MINI without MIDI.
The disadvantage of all the early MIDI interfaces is,- no filter key tracking and no Glide.
The only one which does it all is the Linntronics LMC MIDI interface,-
http://www.lintronics.de/minimoog.html
which is basically or completely the same as the one in the Minimog Voyager which is developed by Rudi Linnhardt.
The main difference is, the Voyager has a display and the Minimoog D has not.
It´s up to you if you want to spend endless hrs, days, weeks or month to find out if that your MIDI interface is working at all or working correctly w/ your Minimoog D ...
Am 28.12.2010 23:03, schrieb thorkvande:
Hi PeWe,
thanks for your reply! I posted some pictures on the group site today, hope you can find them, and maybe help identify what MIDI kit is installed. Cant see any writing on it apart from the ICs.
I totally agree that it is most important to have the mini in playable condition as it is now, gorgeous instrument btw!
I have in collaboration with a tech managed to get this one in good playable condition, so now Im just fooling around to see if I can get the MIDI part working as well, just to work with sequencers and such. (I dont have an external CV generator/converter, Motu Volta or such unfortunately...)
I was hoping that it would be possible to adjust the CV output from the midi kit separately from internal pots, please look at the pictures. This could make it play in tune from internal keyboard and MIDI!?!
I tried to give the pictures self explanatory names, and here are some of my findings.
Any further advice greatly appreciated, please excuse any errors in the description as I am very fresh to the D, and have no experience with other Ds to compare with...
- After being employed, MIDI outrules internal keyboard CV leaving it to work in gate only mode, ie playing last received midi note on all keys. A power flick restores "normal" mode.
- There are two MIDI DIN plugs but only "in" seems operational, the other one is not receiving or sending messages AFAIK.
- Mod wheel controls filter freq. There may be other MIDI controls available, I didnt really dig in...
- No velocity response.
- There are two added flip switches on the back, they simply attenuate/boost output level and filter freq. Next to these is a dented (about 32 steps) wheel, thought it had to do with MIDI functions (select channel) but I cant seem to figure out its use.
All the best!
Thor