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Title: CV on the beatstep and nonworking synths or drum machines
Post by: CFM on April 15, 2014, 12:49:00 am

Please add known synths or drum machines or any other CV piece of gear where the beatstep does not manage to trigger:

Known: Stylophone S2

Title: Re: CV on the beatstep and nonworking synths or drum machines
Post by: andyr1960 on April 15, 2014, 07:49:39 pm

Surprisingly (considering it's used on the Beatstep Video demo), my ARP 2600 won't trigger. I have to patch the gate through the Amp (x10 setting) then into the gate input.

Also, I've measured the CV out, and found that it's just short of 1 volt per octave… High notes are dreadfully flat (yes, my ARP, modular and everything else is correctly calibrated).

I'll risk taking a look inside to see if there's a trimmer to adjust for correct scaling - I suspect there is, although my warrantee will go out of the window  ;)

Title: Re: CV on the beatstep and nonworking synths or drum machines
Post by: andyr1960 on April 16, 2014, 08:26:40 am

Taken the back off - indeed there is a scale adjust trimmer… fixed  :)

Title: Re: CV on the beatstep and nonworking synths or drum machines
Post by: troublesleep on April 16, 2014, 09:50:43 am

Would you mind explaining how you did that? I don't know what a scale trimmer even is...  ???

My MFB Microzwerg doesn't trigger, and my Microbrute plays several octaves too high. Both work with the midi connection, however.