200e

Alex,

I don't have the 200e, but I do have a CF, and I love it.  With the
CVC box, it will allow a person for the first time in a long time to
use Subotnick's "player piano" technique of overdubbing many passes of
expression to make a sound more animated.  (Mort's technique employed
a mic, touch keyboard or joystick that controlled VCO volumes recorded
to tape that were then played back through envelope detectors,
converting them back to control voltages - essentially an analog
version of automation).  The CF will do the same via MIDI (which I
think is pretty amazing, considering how pathetic I have thought MIDI
performance was in the past).

I intend to use a pair of CVC boxes, so that I can record a first pass
of pitch information and then overdub location and modulation
information in a second pass.  To record, one will take the MIDI
output and record it.  Playback is sent to the CF's midi input, (which
is the brain for the CVC box).  The CVC box will make it easy for one
to use the CF as a general purpose cv controller, like a joystick,
except with much higher resolution.

If you hook up a Yamaha pedal controller to the CF and have it control
the rounding factor, then when you have the pedal all of the way down,
you should get actual in tune pitches, like a normal keyboard.  This
is simply in midi, but you may find it difficult to convert the CVC's
1v/oct resolution to 1.2v/oct with the same precision as midi to get
actual tuned pitches.

I may be incorrect, but I don't think that Lippold is going to have a
variable scalling feature on the CVC box, which means that you will
have to look elsewhere for conversion to the Buchla's 1.2v/oct standard.

If I were you, I would not use the cv in - I would rely on the MIDI
input for controlling the 200e with the Continuum Fingerboard.  Using
the CV in will be like the olden days with the 200 series - constantly
retuning the CV inputs to keep the VCOs in tune.

I think that Ezra's comments months ago about improving the 200e's
MIDI input resolution are a better plan for getting in tune pitches
out of the 200e when played with the CF.

Of course, that's just my opinion I could be wrong.

Gary 


--- In 200e@yahoogroups.com, Alex Pi <alexpi@...> wrote:
>
> Hello
> Does the 261e has v/oct input to control pitch?
> I can't seem to find anything about this on the web.
> I am planning my setup with the continuum fingerboard, and hakenaudio  
> will release a very high resolution CV to MIDI converter with  
> variable v/oct.
>