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I played around with hooking up a midi/cv converter, (a JKJ CV-5), with both the Lexicon Vortex & the Digitech 7.6 Time Machine. 1st the Vortex... The Vortex tap tempo will respond to a midi note message via the S-Trig output of the converter. I suppose this could be useful for controlling the Vortex from a sequencer. All I had at my disposal for testing purposes was a midi keyboard,(EVERY key acted like a tap tempo switch), & my EDP. The EDP sends a midi note on at the beginning of the loop. Unfortu- nately, the message is sent too fast for the Vortex to respond to. This led to my major contribution to this list to date; which was, asking Kim for help! Mathias came thru with his sync cable as a result. I feel honored to be the ignorant bastard who caused this. The morph function of the Vortex can be operated via a cv output from the converter. The cv source could be an LFO on board the converter or even a pitch source, ie: midi keyboard. Since I'm a guitar player, the Vortex/converter combination has been of little use to me. The LFO control of the morph would be great; BUT, the LFO on the JKJ CV-5 only gets down to a slow speed of .2 Hz. That's a little too fast for my ear. I've had a lot more fun combining the CV-5 with the Digi 7.6. I send the converter's LFO to the cv pedal input of the 7.6. I have an ART X-15 midi foot controller hooked to the CV-5. The X-15 has two midi cc pedals. One controls the LFO's speed & the other the depth. The program change switches on the X-15 can be used to change from one LFO waveform to another. I know that a lot of Digi Delay users have fun using its on board LFO to twist loops in a knot. You can make all kinds of noise,(I mean that in a nice way), by having a variety of waveforms at your disposal. Just of the top of my head...the CV-5 gives you 2 tri, 3 sq, 2 ramp, 1 random, 1 sine, & several 8 step waveforms. Most of the waveforms will sync to midi clock. I've just begun working the EDP into the mix for that purpose. If Mark Pulver(our resident analogue synth geek & CV-5 expert) is listening, maybe he can add a couple of cents toward using the CV-5 for purposes other than that which it was designed for. It seems like you ought to be able to do something with gates & triggers & portamento, even if you don't own an analogue synth. Motivate one's cat I suppose. :) Oh, you can also run audio thru the CV-5 for volume & panning control. http://www.midiwall.com/synths/jkjcv5.html ===== John Tidwell __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/