Korg Mono/Poly

hey everyone, i recently bought a mono/poly about 3 weeks ago, my 
limeted experience of synthesis in my whole 18 years of life has been 
purely digital. its sad i know...it was great to learn that there is a 
group to help me with this amazing instrument, im so eager to learn. i 
downloaded the manual but theres nothing like having someone with 
personal experience tell you whats goin on. if anyone could give me a 
breif overveiw of syncing the arpeggiator. i have limeted gear and 
limeted funds, i have a 707, what are the possibilities???
 
thanks in advance to anyone that can help
great group, il start posting my patches as soon as i can. 
cheers.

Hi

> personal experience tell you whats goin on. if anyone could give me a 
> breif overveiw of syncing the arpeggiator. i have limeted gear and 
> limeted funds, i have a 707, what are the possibilities???
The arpeggiator requires a single trigger signal for each step (in fact 
you need a so called "Switched Trigger"). This kind of trigger signal 
was usually generated by analogue drum machines (eg. the TR-808 provides 
trigger outs), sequencers or dedicated synchronizers.

For synching with MIDI the easiest way should be a MIDI-2-CV interface, 
like Doepfer MCV4 or Kenton Pro Solo (others exist). If you program a 
short note for each step of the arpeggiator in your sequencer and feed 
the "gate out" of the interface to the arpeggiator in, you will have a sync.
It is irrelevant which note you are using - because you don't use the 
tonal information (which is transferred by the CV-Signal) but only the 
Note-on/off, which is transferred by the Gate-Signal.

Another possibility, but not as reliable, might be to use a short audio 
signal (e.g a rimshot) to trigger the Arpeggio.

Florian

> Another possibility, but not as reliable, might be to use a short 
audio 
> signal (e.g a rimshot) to trigger the Arpeggio.
> 
> Florian
>
hey, 
thanks heaps for relpying. i currently dont have anough cash to buy a 
midi to c/v interface, but what i do have is a rimshot out on my 707. 
i put this into the c/v trigger in and it triggered the single not per 
step set on the 707, but when put in the arpeggio in nothing 
happened.... is it to do with the (switch/ ground) switch????

Hi

> i put this into the c/v trigger in and it triggered the single not per 
> step set on the 707, but when put in the arpeggio in nothing 
> happened.... is it to do with the (switch/ ground) switch???? 
ok, thats what I feared. Then assumingly it won't work with Audioclick 
only. The Arpeggio in requires a so called Trigger-to-switch converter.

If you can solder you can build it very easy on your own. It requires 
only one transistor, one resistor and two sockets or jacks. See:
http://www.doepfer.de/faq/gen_faq.htm#S-Trig


Best regards, Florian

The Arpeggio in requires a so called Trigger-to-switch converter.
> 
> If you can solder you can build it very easy on your own. It 
requires 
> only one transistor, one resistor and two sockets or jacks. See:
> http://www.doepfer.de/faq/gen_faq.htm#S-Trig

AWSOME!, thanks heaps dude, i wont be welding this specifically but my 
freind whos great at this type of thing will. 
much appreciated florian, cheers!