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by godzilla » Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:52 am
it's because it's so limited with modulation that they included those cv ins, without them you'd have to open the thing up and mod it to get the filter with S/H, extra lfo or noise or whatever. pitch, filter freq and volume are the most important aspects of the sound that you would want to modulate, and if they didn't have the inputs you would have been limited to the internal modulation, which imo would suck (it would still be a cool synth but you couldn't upgrade it with a cp251)
now i'm not saying i don't want cv outs (that and a pre filter loop would make this synth perfect) but you can get them using a midi-cv converter, which i intend to do
it would be nice to have outputs already on the thing but that would have driven the price up, and every little bit counts, they had to stop somewhere other wise they would have just made yet another edition of the voyager
the onlly thing i wish they'd left in, is the pre filter loop. if you had that you could do so much more to the tonal quality of the sound by using parametric eq and that sort of thing on the osc/ext input, before the filter got its dirty little hands on them. but you can't have everything (but one thing you can have is CV outputs with the aid of a midi-cv converter)