Aries Archive [sdiy] how to build a cv keyboard

[Ingo Debus]

Scott Stites wrote:
 >>Some of us would rather use the analog cicuitry found in the
 >>Aries type - true Control Voltage  keyboards, than the newer
 >>midi to control voltage converters mainly available today.  The
 >>way the keyboards feel and play are completely different.
 >
 >
 > I've heard this observation before.  Having never played a MIDI 
keyboard, I don't
 > really know what it means.  What is different between the two?

Perhaps that most MIDI keyboards are velocity sensitive, while most
analog keyboards are not ;-> (duck)

 > My keyboard has
 > low-note priority, for instance - is it related to note priority?

A MIDI keyboard should just send a Note On when a key is pressed and a
Note Off when a key is released. The priority thing is done at the
receiving end.

Ingo