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Hi!

I am new to CV/Cate, but I bought myself a Dark Energy (synth) and Dark Time (seq) a while ago. Very nice little machines. Works with both midi and cv/gate.

Now I tried to connect the Dark Time to my LP with CV/Gate and can't get that to work.
According to the specifications both of them works with 5V for gate. I connect the DT's "Gate 1 Out" to the LP's "KB GATE" and DT's "CV 1 Out" to LP's "PITCH CV". Nothing happens when I start the DT.

If I press a key on the LP, I can hear the DT playing the LP, but it seems that the gate is not working just from the "KB GATE" input.
If I plug a dummy cable in the "KB GATE" I can use audio input to my LP to modulate external audio, so in that sense the "KB GATE" input works.

I have checked the voltage from the DT output in the LP end of the cable and it is 5.36V.

Am I missing something here?
Or is there something wrong with my LP?

The phatty misses very short gates. Might be the problem if you were sending it pulse triggers.

Also, depending on the phatty OS, they added a menu option that changes the behavior of the gate in. There are 3 choices: GATE, GATE/SUS, SUST.PED

I have OS 3.1T 672, and can't find any parameter like that. But that shouldn't be necessary to use CV/Gate, should it? I mean, the functionality is implemented in the synth with the original OS 1.3 and should work even then.

It doesn't work with 100% gate neither ...

Assar, make sure that some of the Darktime steps are turned to the on position(three position switch). If a step is selected to be off or skipped, it will not send a gate signal. Also, Have you messed with the pulsewidth control?

Benjamin AM wrote:Assar, make sure that some of the Darktime steps are turned to the on position(three position switch). If a step is selected to be off or skipped, it will not send a gate signal. Also, Have you messed with the pulsewidth control?

Yes, thanks.
All switches are in the correct position and pulsewidth has been messed with.