SH-101 to PC? Will this work?

[RedRoomResident]

I recently got a Roland SH-101 and am v happy with it, apart from that the sequencer only holds one sequence. So, what I want to do is connect it to my PC, but for that I need Midi and the SH-101 only has CV/Gate connections.

Here's the plan: get a Novation Bass Station (which seems the cheapest way of getting CV/Gate - Midi conversion and gives me another synth into the bargain) and use that to connect the SH-101 to my laptop, where I'll be able to use Midi controls and soft sequencers to control it. I'll also be able to use the SH-101 keyboard on the Bass Station.

I'm a noob at all this synth stuff, so will this work?

Or are there better ways I could do this?

[remote337]

Originally Posted by RedRoomResident

I recently got a Roland SH-101 and am v happy with it, apart from that the sequencer only holds one sequence. So, what I want to do is connect it to my PC, but for that I need Midi and the SH-101 only has CV/Gate connections.

Here's the plan: get a Novation Bass Station (which seems the cheapest way of getting CV/Gate - Midi conversion and gives me another synth into the bargain) and use that to connect the SH-101 to my laptop, where I'll be able to use Midi controls and soft sequencers to control it. I'll also be able to use the SH-101 keyboard on the Bass Station.

I'm a noob at all this synth stuff, so will this work?

Or are there better ways I could do this?

You can only do some of this. The Bass Station has very basic conversion which will trigger notes only and won't sync the sequencer or allow aux control of CV etc. Also it's one way so the 101 won't control the bass station.

[Don Solaris]

Originally Posted by RedRoomResident

Here's the plan: get a Novation Bass Station

Get yourself Waldorf Pulse Plus. It has one of the fastest MIDI/CV interfaces out there (rock steady even at 1/32). Plus you get a kickass synth that in bass area (low end) eats SH-101 for breakfast. And it also gives you a ton of weird SFX stuff thanks to its good routing with the matrix modulation.

[Demokid]

Using a Novation Bass Station (Rack version) to control the SH101 would work. The rack version is the only one with CV/Gate In and Out. You should be able to control the Bass Station using CV/Gate Out from the SH101 since the BassStation has CV/Gate In. I don't know if the BassStation sends out MIDI notes when controlled via CV... If it doesen't then you can't record it into the sequencer program when controlled by the SH101.

I think the simplest way and the way I recommend is to buy a Kenton Solo USB. Not only is it easy to use you also get three auxiliary CV outputs, an LFO with 9 waveforms and MIDI sync which can be used to controll e.g. Filter cutoff.
http://www.kentonuk.com/products/items/m-cv/usb-solo.shtml

Then buy a MIDI keyboard to control everything.

Best regards
Demokid

[Yoozer]

Originally Posted by Don Solaris

Get yourself Waldorf Pulse Plus. It has one of the fastest MIDI/CV interfaces out there (rock steady even at 1/32).

Is that what you're using for your Voyager OS?

[remote337]

Originally Posted by Demokid

Using a Novation Bass Station (Rack version) to control the SH101 would work. The rack version is the only one with CV/Gate In and Out. You should be able to control the Bass Station using CV/Gate Out from the SH101 since the BassStation has CV/Gate In. I don't know if the BassStation sends out MIDI notes when controlled via CV... If it doesen't then you can't record it into the sequencer program when controlled by the SH101.

I think the simplest way and the way I recommend is to buy a Kenton Solo USB. Not only is it easy to use you also get three auxiliary CV outputs, an LFO with 9 waveforms and MIDI sync which can be used to controll e.g. Filter cutoff.
http://www.kentonuk.com/products/items/m-cv/usb-solo.shtml

Then buy a MIDI keyboard to control everything.

Best regards
Demokid

The idea of a pro solo USB or midi is the best but again it's one way in as much it won't do cv to midi.

Also you can only control vcf if you have the 101 modded as it had no vcf input as standard. You can clock the sequencer with a pulse tone or clock output from midi.

[Demokid]

That’s true buy why do CV à MIDI? J

Before I used a Pulse and the TeeBee MK-III to control CV/Gate equipments and it was just a pain. I had a really hard time getting it to work. Now I use a Kenton Pro-2000, one channel V/Oct the other Hz/V and it is so easy… tuning/scaling the CV. I will soon buy a ProSolo to control the CS30. Now I actually use my CV/Gate sizers.

[Don Solaris]

Originally Posted by Yoozer

Is that what you're using for your Voyager OS?

Yeah. I also like the additional CV Output on the Pulse i.e. velocity from the sequencer to the filter of the Voyager or Pro One, etc.

I did got some cold sweat with Pro One though - the velocity to filter just didn't worked - until i figured out the Mod amount knob has to be introduced. Very cool thing actually as you can manually increase the velocity dept per all the notes at once, without need to mess with the curves in the DAW.