help with keyboard gate and modular

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i recently started building up my eurorack and i purchased a flame clockwork.. for starters i don’t have any euro vco’s and i am getting by using the little phattys vco, vcf, and vca.

my problem seems to be with the gate.. the clockwork puts out a cv, clock, and gate. But when i try to put the gate to the key gate on the LP i just get an always open gate(or maybe closed.. ooops cant remember).. either way the only signal that actually triggers and retriggers the gate is the cv.. but sadly i would rather route that differently and it doesn’t go well with my patching.

does the moog gate trigger abnormally? i am not really sure whats going on here. you would figure that gate should goto gate


also my understanding of teh lp is that when i put a cv sequencer into pitch cv in… the LP adds the SEQ CV to the last note played CV on the phatty… is there a setting to turn that off?

if i set my last note played on teh phatty to the lowest note in the lowest octave does that set my phatty up to recieve the correct voltages/notes (other than the fact that the lp is set up outside of 1volt/octave?)

i am running a tip top z8000, clockwork, qmmg, and maths


i might not be expaining the best but please try and help

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I have a similar problem getting the LP gate to trigger properly from my MFB SEQ-02 sequencer module (which is a bit useless since the LP doesn’t use standard CV levels) and my Behringer A-198. I gave up already, but if anybody has an answer or a possible solution to what can be done to make interfacing with eurorack modulars practical i’d love it.

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Did you guys get this issue resolved?
Also, how easy is it to attenuate a 1volt per octave CV signal to make the LP track properly? Would one of the attenuators on the CP-251 work OK for this? I imagine it might be hard to dial in the exact right amount of attenuation.

I too have a small Eurorack modular and I’m considering buying a sequencer module and a quantizer, so I’d really like to know if these problems are easy to work around before I dive in and make that purchase.