SergeModular

thanks ben:
can you clarify: "your supposed to put the spade under a screw" which screw are you referring to? a screw on the MCV4?

Many thanks for the info!

--- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, "b3nnysf" <b3nnysf@...> wrote:
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> hey Hans,
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> No problem. the grounding "kit" was merely a "spade" with a banana plug input, your supposed to put the spade under a screw and tighten it down on your device to be grounded with the serge, then you connect the long black banana cable to the serge power supply and to the spade...
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> http://www.testpath.com/Items/Adapter-Shrouded-Banana-Jack-to-6-Spade-Lug-Black-112-785.htm
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> Now, I took off the spade and soldered a solid core wire there instead, and I partially unscrew the sleeve on the 1/4 inch connector, then screw it back down tight with the wire pinched in between. This 1/4 plugs into the CV1 output on MCV4. On the other end of the 1/4 inch wire is a banana plug (I got a bundle of 1/4 to banana wires from Rex) and this is plugged into the 1 volt per octave on the NTO or PCO. Perfect tracking over the entire keyboard. Other modules dont track perfectly such as DSG and the right half of the TGO, and to some degree the left half of the TGO ( 4 octaves good )
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> I hope that helps. :)
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> later,
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> --- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, "hansgrusel" <hansgrusel@> wrote:
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> > hey ben,
> > i just got a doepfer MCV4 to trigger my serge + euro rack stuff together and it's tracking poorly. can you inform further on the "grounding kit"?
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> > many thanks!
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> > > Serge land is easily conquered by the midi cv gate converter, its a snap to hook up the grounding kit (one wire) to the doepfer MCV4, from there, notes track perfectly (with NTO, PCO) and mod wheel can be anything you choose-- filter cutoff, wave multiplyer, LFO speed...
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> > > If I may extrapolate from what you posted, I think the Mpc3000 would be lovely with a dual osc and creature and midi-cv converter. Why not the SKP? well because you really want the TKB (like me) and you should stick with that. The dual osc will track notes correctly with the midi-cv and it has a CV mixer witch is very useful for subtle modulation and feedback loops. It also has the �N which is good for "beats" and other weird patches...The creature is extremely powerful because it packs the most bang for the buck in the m-class, being both normal and completely strange...
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> > > Then buy the TKB and you'll be ruling with a 16 step with 4 voltages OR a 64 step sequencer 1 voltage sequencer!!
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> > > that's my take on it.
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> > > later,
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> > > --- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, "tbby_t" <tbby_t@> wrote:
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> > > > Howdy Serge-people:
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> > > > While I've been fascinated with these synths for a long long time, I've never touched one. Given a recent peek at the bank account, I'm thinking I may just go ahead and splurge on a panel.
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> > > > Now, to be fair, I'm probably not the synth-savviest; there's a busted crumar ds-2 in my living room, and I have spent a good couple years (quite some years ago) front-panel programming an oberheim matrix6r and a yamaha tx802 (which is to say i'm well acquainted with frustration, but have no real modular experience). I've really been much more sample-oriented (mpc3k and a pair of s900s), and have actually returned (atop this all) to playing guitar.
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> > > > Serge-wise, to say I'm fascinated by the TKB would be a vast understatement. Unfortunately, pairing it with say, an Animal panel... well... I'm not sure I can justify the expense at the moment. Plus I suspect the TKB would be somewhat underused in such a small system - but there's no way for me to really know without having spent some serious hours (days) with both.
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> > > > So I'm leaning toward an M-boat loaded with a Creature and either sequencer A or an SQP. Would the SQP be underutilized in this setting? Keep in mind that I can certainly figure out how to convert some midi from the mpc into cv/gate (I hope that doesn't offend you guys), but at the same time I'd like to not be forced to. I kind of like the idea of dual sequencing (externally from the midibox and natively). I suspect the sequencer A may be more interesting in this regard. Again though, I'm sure I won't fully understand these funtions until I've messed with them for a while.
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> > > > Sorry if that was longish, but what do you guys think?
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