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Most analog monosynths
generate a control voltage and gate signal from their own keyboard, route
those signals through switches built into the CV/gate jacks on the back
of the instrument and then into the synthesizer voice of VCOs and envelope
generators. The Synhouse MIDIJACK is a small computer that generates
analog control signals and has input wires and output wires that route
the local keyboard signals through an internal computer-controlled analog
switching matrix. When installed in the correct manner which puts
the MIDIJACK "downstream" of the existing analog interface jacks,
the user may choose between MIDI control or normal use of the keyboard
and CV/gate jacks. To install, the user simply disconnects
one wire from each of the existing CV and gate jacks and solders two of
the easy color-coded MIDIJACK wires to those jack terminals, and
solders the disconnected wires to two more wires on the MIDIJACK wiring
harness, then solders two MIDIJACK wires to the synthesizers' own
power supply to provide power for the MIDIJACK. When MIDI is activated
by pressing the button, the analog keyboard is automatically disconnected
by the MIDIJACK computer and the analog synthesizer can be controlled from
MIDI computer sequencers, keyboards, or any other MIDI controller.
When MIDI is turned off, the MIDIJACK automatically removes itself
from the signal path and the instrument is returned to normal keyboard
and CV/gate operation.
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