Xpantastic!

yes thats correct, but its just for triggering
gate and pitch of each voice. Basically allowing
you to trigger or sequence an Xpander without
using MIDI. But this has nothing to do with the
Xpander's "snappy" response issue.

the lack of "snappy" that you refer to in the
Xpander is due to the slow response of its
software based envelope generators specifically
when modulating the filter cutoff. You cannot
get that characteristic "pop" when setting the envelope 
"decay" to low values like you would on a Minimoog
or a Roland System 100m for example, both
well know for having very snappy envelopes.

The only way you could fix this with an external CV
signal is if the Xpander supported the ability
to let you select one of the external CV inputs
as a modulation source, which would then allow
you to route that to the filter cutoff and use one of
the Silent Way software envelopes to get 
a much more snappier response versus its
internal envelope generators of the Xpander.

Since the Xpander doesn't support this, there is
no way to do what you are trying to do.

-omar

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On Apr 2, 2012, at 11:13 AM, Richard Taylor <rick@...> wrote:

> I'm not 100% sure on how to do it, as I don't have the Xpander in front of me yet. However in the Sound on Sound review of Silent way the reviewer states that they used SW's voice controller to play an Xpander polyphonically:
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> By instantiating a number of Voice Controller plug-ins, assigning one as ‘master’ and the others to individual voice numbers, I was able to use my six-voice Oberheim Xpander via its CV inputs. 
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> http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may10/articles/silentway.htm
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> On Apr 1, 2012, at 10:40 PM, Omar wrote:
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>> I'm curious how you would make that work. My understanding is the CV inputs on the Xpander are hard-routed to pitch control of the VCO's only. Is this correct? I couldn't see anywhere in the manual or in the master page where you can setup the CV inputs to be used as a freely assignable modulation source. 
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>> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:13 PM, sonictransmissions2002 <rick@...> wrote:
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>> Is anyone using their Xpander with the Volta or Silent way plugins? If so how do you find it? Are you able to get snappier basses using the plugin's envelopes? 
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>> My Xpander arrives on thursday and this will be one of the first things I try. 
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>> Cheers
>> 
>> Rick
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