recommendations for or experience with MIDI to CV eurorack modules?

[pureParticipant]

i am looking into midi-cv converter modules so i can reach eurorackland from the zaq. using the 4 tracks in drum mode would produce maximum 64 voices so i put this case aside for the time being.
so 4 chord modes would lead to maximum 4 voices – ignoring the chord function which, again, would be overload. and there are 8 CCs. would be great to have them converted into 4 cvs as well. so far the best solution seems to be the qMI from Vermona – http://www.vermona.com/index.php/en_qmi.html
reading through the manual it seems close to perfect! but for a price.
any opinions? experience? recommendations? alternatives?

[alien_brainParticipant]

try this company. not sure if they make midi to cv but i thought i saw something at one point

http://www.expert-sleepers.co.uk/

[pureParticipant]

they make cool audio/spdif/lightpipe to cv converter modules but nothing with midi. thanks anyway.

[EricParticipant]

I haven’t used the Vermona. It looks awesome but are they still making it? Wasn’t able to find anyone selling it. So far I’ve used my microbrute as a midi to cv converter and today I trsted my friend’s Kenton box and it worked perfectly. It’s obviously a lot simpler than the Vermona. Do you already have a large euro setup? Doing polyphony in modular can be really expensive/impractical. I suppose using the midi ccs as cv modulation could be cool, but it’s just gonna be stepped sample and hold type stuff.

[pureParticipant]

it’s at least in stock at both schneidersladen and thomann in germany right now. i have a small but growing euro setup so i would find something to do for the 4 note channels. but your objection regarding the cc’s then being only 128 cv steps makes me put my plan into question. thanks for the input!

[CraigParticipant]

I use the Vermona Mono Lancet with Mod Dock for my small euro rig. The Mono Lancet is the heart of the system with a series of utility modules. It gives me jacks for pitch, gate, velocity, after touch, pitch and mod wheels as well. It doesn’t do much good for clocking though so I use a SyncGen from innerclock. I run the pulse output of it in to the clock in on a Vermona Fourmulator which then allows me to divide or multiply the clock signal in multiple ways to apply time synced filter sweeps, etc on the rest of the Euro rig.

[KieranParticipant]

I was looking at the Vermona Qmi too, but also found the Doepfer a-190-5 for a little cheaper. Haven’t ordered anything yet. Be aware that there is a QMI v2. I can’t find any info on what the difference is though.

Just ordered on of these though!

http://www.synthcity.nl/midi/midi-to-trigger-interface.html

MIDI to 24 trigger outs!!! Will probably only use 16 though.

Wondering if I can hack into power inside the bcr and build the whole thing into it (could wire midi out b straight to it). Looking for cheap jacks now.

[KieranParticipant]

There is this one for €135.

https://www.modulargrid.net/e/offers/view/3379

If you search modulargrid for “midi to cv” you should get every option around and a few that aren’t.

For your money, you get way more with a Muc!

http://www.edv-technik-ts.de/html/muc-models.html

I want a Muc-810!

• This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by  Kieran.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by  Kieran.

[Thijs van de LeurParticipant]

I just purchased the Zaquencer to control my eurorack.
Since my Hexinverter midi2cv also uses 4 chanels it seemed perfect!
So far it works out for me!

http://www.hexinverter.net/midi2cv/

• This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by  Thijs van de Leur.

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