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At 07:46 AM 7/6/04 +0100, Chris Whitten <cw.chris@zen.co.uk> wrote:
> > I suddenly
> > realized how much easier it would be to fire off one of my
> > patches with a pedal  situated next to my hi-hat than searching
> > for the tiny button on my Chaos module.
>
>As you mention 'hi-hat', what about a DW trigger pedal or one of the drum
>kat trigger pedals? Or a simmons pad?
>I'm not sure what voltage they spit out though.
>Sorry to be drummist.

As I mentioned in the "live" thread, I've used drum triggers (pads, or 
those stick-on triggers for acoustic drums, not pedals, but I'm sure they 
spit out the same type of voltage), which can be plugged into "gate" 
inputs.  They'll work well for triggering envelator envelopes, because 
those are really "triggered", and not "gated" EG's.  On the other hand, the 
VCO/Waveform City EG's are "gated", so unless you have the attack time set 
to minimum on those, the maximum output level of the EG will depend on how 
hard you hit the trigger pad (hitting harder yields a longer trigger pulse, 
which gives the EG more time to ramp up) ... a nifty means of incorporating 
"touch sensitivity" into your modular (as long as the attack time isn't set 
too long).

But since all percussion triggers are basically one-shots, they probably 
wouldn't be a working solution for note-on/note-off type gate signals.

I know that they make "mute" pedals for vocalists & guitarists ... it might 
be easiest just to wire up a 9v battery + resistor network to the input of 
one, and send the output to the appropriate gate input on the modular ...

         -Doug
          jasret@mindspring.com