Can an E-Pro or E-Plus do MIDI stuff?

Theremint · Post by **Theremint** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:01 am

Does anybody know how one can make an E-Pro or E-Plus do all the MIDI stuff that is done with an Ethervox? I really like the sounds that Peter Pringle makes on his E-Vox. I guess it is a matter of having the Etherwave somehow shake hands with a MIDI device, right?

Theremint

EricK · Post by **EricK** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:31 am

Midi to CV converter I guess.

I myself always wondered what kind of goodness one could get out of a Midi Theremin. Im thinking it would be pretty darn sweet.

I hope you get that Ethervox. THen you can let me come to your house and play it lol.

Eric

Theremint · Post by **Theremint** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:36 am

Hi EricK,

Look at Peter Pringle's Youtube videos for some real sweet examples.

Theremint

Willyman · Post by **Willyman** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 2:54 pm

hell I think we'll ALL be round at your house playing with it.... Some guy wheeling a modular through the door, plugs it in and your like "You could use CV you know" "Yeah, but its an ethervox". Thats just what it looks like in my mind. Good luck with it anyways!

nicholas d. kent · Post by **nicholas d. kent** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 4:14 pm

By the way you need CV to MIDI (not MIDI to CV) and once you get it you tend to be pretty limited. It's no magic answer. MIDI's pitch bending range is limited If you play within a sweet range that works you can get something nice but it's not like all your theremin playing is suddenly going to be accurately duplicated through MIDI on your soft synth or ROMpler.

The out of production for many years and costing several thousand dollar Moog Ethervox had a midi output built in. It's certainly interesting to experimental musicians but not magic. I'd think of the few people with an Ethervox few of them actually use the MIDI after they encounter it's limitations

There is a huge advantage of using a control voltage instrument where the amplitude cv of the theremin controls the VCA and obviously the pitch voltage controls the pitch. You aren't fighting with stepping and limited ranges inherent in MIDI.

Theremint · Post by **Theremint** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:31 pm

Thanks for the replies guys. I just found out from my Pedal steel guitar coach that the Peterson company which is famous for its strobe tuning devices is coming out with a stand alone gizmo that any analog instrument can plug into it and it converts the signal to MIDI. Also was told it will come out next month for around $100 retail.

Here's the link:

http://www.petersontuners.com/

Theremint

Voltor07 · Post by **Voltor07** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:53 pm

Wow...the Moog of tuners. Who'd a thought?

peterkadar · Post by **peterkadar** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:17 am

Geez, you could use that to Midify your old monophonic synths, and the Freqbox, no?

EricK · Post by **EricK** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:52 am

In my opinion, I don't think MIDI is so cut and dry like that. THeres so much complicated stuff going on with a CV to Midi COnverter, I wonder how accurate a 100 dollar tuner like that would be...and it might only do pitches.

I haven't had much luck getting midi clocks to sync..the only sucess Ive had is just directly controlling one keyboard with another.

Eric

Theremint · Post by **Theremint** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:10 am

Ok Y'all, I got the Sonuus G2M. On a scale of 1-10 I give it a five. I have it hooked up to my Roland GR-33 (won't work on the VG-99). I get all those same sounds that Peter Pringle makes on his Ethervox. That is the good part. The bad part is there are some latency issues. I think I can change the system setting on the GR-33 to smooth out the problem. Do Y'all want a video showning me demonstrating this on my E-Pro Ltd.?

Hope Y'all don't mind my southern accent this morning with all the "Y'all"'s

Shalom Y'all,

Theremint

Voltor07 · Post by **Voltor07** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:05 am

Video please!

Theremint · Post by **Theremint** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:00 pm

Ok, I'll call my film crew to help me this weekend on it. I'll post it to Youtube.

Theremint

Voltor07 · Post by **Voltor07** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:54 pm

Theremint wrote:Ok, I'll call my film crew to help me this weekend on it. I'll post it to Youtube.

Theremint

Thank you!

EricK · Post by **EricK** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:11 pm

Im from Arkansas, My southern drawl is pretty thick I imagine.

Please post the video!

Eric

Theremint · Post by **Theremint** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:13 pm

It may take another week for me to get the video done, sorry for the delay.

Theremint

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Can an E-Pro or E-Plus do MIDI stuff?

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