How to cv control minitaur?

[Meriphew]

I went ahead and bought a white Minitaur. It will be my first go at using CV for sequencing. I’m sure I’m in for an adventure…

[Jameshenry]

Yeah I’m not looking forward to it. Everyone else seems to know what they are doing with CV. I got in too late. Never touched this sh*t till 2017, any of it.

[dobermate]

Relax, have a good cup of coffee and the mind set to patience mode. Then try the steps above and, if needed, redo them a couple of times. You’ll soldier through - good luck!

[Meriphew]

I see Song Mode on my AR2, but I don’t see Patience Mode anywhere. Is that available with an OS update?

[dobermate]

It’s a human hack

[Jameshenry]

Someday, I’m going to be so proficient with this shit, that I’m no longer going to be a beggar for help on the internet

[Jameshenry]

Here we go

DFAM

Minitaur

And the chaos

[Meriphew]

Well, six hours in and I’ve still not been able to get it to work. Seems like I just get the same note no matter which key I press. Gah!!!

[Meriphew]

Did you have any luck?

[Jameshenry]

Got it all working, even the DFAM. Having a rough time of shutting everything off and then it doesn’t work when I start back up. But working through that. I’ve been rewiring for 5 hours over the past 2 days. Trying to get everything neat inside my fire box. How are you trying to sequence the Minitaur?

[Meriphew]

A4 CV A/B out to Minitaur’s pitch and gate inputs. I can get it to trigger a sound, but octaves don’t change, and the note is the same no matter what key I press.

[Jameshenry]

Oh that’s beyond what I’m doing. I just wanted the damn thing to start and stop and make a sound.

[nirun]

have you tried using the lower notes? The minitaur doesn’t track over the entire keyboard so you end up getting the same sound past a certain octave/note that I can’t recall off the top of my head.

Never had any problems controlling the minitaur from the A4/modular for the past many years

also check out this thread for more info

Minitaur for live DAW-less setup

the midi from the A4 will only be able to clock the LFOs, you can achieve control from the A4 to the minitaur note on off (gate) / pitch / filter / volume cv from the 4 CV outs of the A4. Setup the CV track for the ABCD outputs to be A -> cv gate -> minitaur gate cv input B -> pitch cv v/oct ->minitaur pitch cv in c -> value lin -> minitaur filter cv in d -> value lin -> minitaur volume cv in of course filter cv and volume cv aren’t essential but if you aren’t using those 2 cv outs might a…

[Meriphew]

I’ve tried switching the A4 into lower octaves but still nothing.

[nirun]

you’re certain that you have pitch cv assigned to the correct side of the cable? You’re using a TRS to dual mono cable as well?

[Meriphew]

Yeah, cabling is correct (TRS insert to two TS male outputs), and they’re plugged in to the proper jacks.

[Meriphew]

On the Minitaur Editor I have the CV mapping set to default. Do I need to change anything in there?

Thx for your help BTW.

One thing I noticed is that the Minitaur still makes the single note sound regardless of whether or not I have the (tip) cable plugged into it. Maybe I have a bad cable (just bought it).

Just tried another cable and got the same result, so it isn’t the cable.

[nirun]

hmm everything should work with default settings on the minitaur. Can you try saving your current A4 project and doing an empty reset of your machine and re-setup the cv tracks? Also try doing a factory reset of your minitaur, if it wasn’t brand new who knows what has been tweaked and saved through the editor.

Also do you have any other gear you can try sending a CV signal to? If you are getting proper v/oct output from your cv tracks to another device then you know for sure something’s up with the minitaur.

also do the same sending midi notes to the minitaur to confirm the oscillators are working OK.

You should be able to isolate where the problem lies after this

[Meriphew]

It’s a brand new Minitaur, but I have used the Moog Editor to reset everything to default, and to calibrate CV. I will try sending midi to it though, that’s a good idea. Thx.

Tested the Minitaur with midi and it works fine.

[Open_Mike]

I don’t know if it will solve your issue but never the less moogs will sort of “set” the oscillators to the last voltage played on the keys (if there) or by midi, and then the cv input will offset the oscillators from there…

To get my Little Phatty to work in proper tune with pitch CV from Threremini I have to have pressed a low C last, I forget which Octave…
Here it’s mentioned earlier in the thread:

The only thing which is quite annoying is that I always have to send a C0 to the Minitaur via MIDI before starting to send CV. If I don’t do that, the Minitaur may play wrong pitch (i.e. if I play a C1 on the A4, the Minitaur will for example play a G1).

Once you get things sorted this can be used for transpose…