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el_hombre · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:40 pm Post subject: Arturia Beatstep with MS20 Mini

Has anyone else had a chance to try this yet?
I bought one about a week ago, still getting my head around how it will work with my synths.
It doesn't have enough gate voltage to trigger my SH-2, and in terms of CV, the volt per octave thing doesn't really gel with the MS20 mini. It'll run it, but definitely not in the same way it'll run my SH-2 (I can get it to sequence the SH-2 if I use that synth's hold funtion).
What I haven't tried yet is using the midi out from the beatstep into the MS20 mini and tryingto sequence it that way. I'm such a midi noob I don't even have a midi cable. Gonna try this on Friday though andhopefully have smething interesting to report.
Anyone else tried this yet?

el_hombre · Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 8:26 am Post subject:

Picked up a midi cable on the way home from work tonight to see how the Beatstep drives the Mini through MIDI, happy to say it works a treat. The Mini's simple note on/note off MIDI implementation means it pretty much works the same as it would with other synths via CV gate I guess.
Pretty happy with it.