Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

jpontmotm wrote:
> [I searched the message archive, but came up empty on ...]
> 
> I recently received my PEK - a very nice and deep synth.
> 
> I would like to extract Gate and CV from the PEK sequencer to 'drive'
> my analog sequencers.  I have connected MIDI out from the PEK into a
> Kenton Pro Solo MIDI in and then into an analog sequencer or modular
> oscillator, etc. I have set both the PEK and Pro Solo to MIDI channel 1.
> 
> I can drive, say, the oscillator or sequencer with CV (and Gate) when
> I press the PEK keys (and the Kenton Pro Solo displays that the Gate
> is being received via a small LED).  However, when I Start the PEK
> sequencer, there is no response on the Pro Solo.  I have a really poor
> understanding of MIDI (I've avoided it as much as possible), and I
> could not find explicitly in the PEK manual how to set up the Global
> MIDI parameters for MIDI out from the PEK sequencer.
>

you need to set the sequencer track to 'MIDI Note' and a second track to 
'MIDI velocity' (I believe).  I dont remember if you can send CCs from 
it.  I am not in front of my PEK, so I dont remember precisely what the 
destination is called.