Doepfer

Yes, James, you're right. My mistake - no DC in to Volta; I  
misinterpreted a few things. Perhaps blinded by my enthusiasm, mea  
culpa.

Volta's designer (Matthew Davidson, of Stretta fame) says that he'd  
love to design a dedicated interface for this, but he has "to  
demonstrate a significant market need" [to Motu].
Unfortunately, Motu isn't Doepfer -- they don't do user polls.

_g



> Volta may be able to record DC voltages but as far as I know and read
> - there are no standard sound cards or interfaces (including the MOTU
> ones) that will allow the input of DC. You can input audio at the same
> time you output DC from the plugin though. This is referred to allot
> in the reviews talking about syncing etc to external devices. There
> has been talk of modifying devices to maybe get them to input DC by
> removing the AC coupling found on them but I have seen no hands on
> reviews that have said the recording of DC is possible. All the
> reviews and write ups I have seen only talk of controlling your
> modular and none have mentioned the possibility of recording (even the
> Max hack that has been shown that pre-dated the Volta) If you have
> seen any this let us know.
>
> -James
>
> On Jan 17, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Guy Drieghe D. wrote:
>
> >
> >> Perhaps I'm mistaken but from what I understand, VOLTA is only a  
> one
> >> way system which, because of DC protection on all (?) interface
> >> inputs, does not allow for CV control i.e. actual performance -  
> to be
> >> recorded.
> >>
> >
> > No. Volta is a 2-way system.
> > You can feed a signal from your modular (any signal) back into Volta
> > and process it any way you like. That way you can for instance host-
> > sync your CV's and signals with any effect (or soft-synth or  
> whatever)
> > in your DAW. Or you can record the output of your ribboncontroller  
> and
> > treat it as data. In fact, once you feed signals back into Volta it
> > becomes kindof a virtual instrument. The possibilities are endless.
> >
> > So, since you can feed your modular signals back into Volta, it gets
> > really powerful to send these signal backs to your modular, once
> > you've ehm, done things to them (in Volta).
> >
> >
> >> ... so we're still waiting for somebody to design a DC capable, CV
> >> recorder.
> >>
> > Why ? Volta can do this, no problem.
> > Your DAW becomes your CV recorder, and it's only limited to your
> > available memory/HD space.