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Quick Tip: CV Toggle Switch

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It would be really cool if we could change Thor Buttons state through CV triggering, wouldn't it ? Ya know, if you need to toggle the on/off state of some CV out to be used on, let's say, a bank of 16 devices that react differently to the state of that CV ? We can already toggle the state momentarily through a specified Note or through automation of those 2 buttons in Thor, or the 4 buttons in the Combinator, but a simple scalable solution for CV triggering a CV state would nice. Well, since there's no way in Thor to send "CV in1 -> Button1" so a gate signal in CV 1 input would flip the state of Button 1, we have to come up with the next elegant solution available, using Thor's Step Sequencer :) Fortunately, there's a "Gate In (Trig)" CV input at the back of Thor's Step Sequencer, so here's our CV input that will trigger the CV state toggle. To achieve the toggle action, we need to set the Run mode to Step, so for each CV trigger, we g

Down memory lane: Trackers, Trax/Demo Scenes and my first MIDI Controller Keyboard

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Note: This was going to be a post about the new M-Audio Axiom 2nd Gen controller keyboards ... and, after some sentences, I realized it wasn't going to happen as soon as I first envisioned... oh well, better change the post title and move on... :P ... As you may already know, I've been accidentally collecting more MIDI Keyboard controllers than I ever wished for. Buying new, not selling the old because there's always an excuse use for it. It all started when I bought my (really mine) first "real" (as opposed to my Sinclair ZX Spectrum ) Personal Computer (I had used PCs for a while at this point: 8086, i286, i386sx, i386 based, but none were mine), a brand new D-I-Y i486DX2 @66MHz based PC with (at the time) 4Mb (a few years after, upgraded to 32Mb) of RAM. It had a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 because I've always hoped to use a PC to generate sound through synthesis using math (i.e. DSP algoritms), besides taking advantage of the digital s