Playing Ableton Synths with External CV Modular Sequencer

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Oxford71
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Playing Ableton Synths with External CV Modular Sequencer

Post by Oxford71 » Sun Oct 17, 2021 2:38 pm

Plain and simple, I would like to play by software synths in ableton with my Stillson Hammer eurorack sequencer. Does anyone have any idea if this is possible. Looks like CV tools allows you to go from Ableton to an external oscillator but not the other way around.

grrrz
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Re: Playing Ableton Synths with External CV Modular Sequencer

Post by grrrz » Thu Oct 21, 2021 12:28 am

it's possible in theory but the only interface I know that accepts CV as input is the expert sleepers (they have several model). You need DC coupled input. A few other models like motu do DC-coupled output for CV outs but none do input except ES.
https://www.expert-sleepers.co.uk/
(look at ES-8 or ES-9)
there's also an sp-dif module with expansion (ES-4 +ES-7)
although I think you can send trig or clock signals to the inputs of any interface (maybe with a bit of attenuation); not CV
as for the software side; I can't check know if cv tools can do that; you probably can make your own receiver with m4l; or you can again look at expert sleepers website; they have software for that
[url]https://www.expert-sleepers.co.uk/silentway.html[/url
apparently you can mux signals; I haven't tried; you'd have to dig a bit there to find out what you need.

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