Kria or other Monome module control of midi synth?

Monome
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How did you get on with this in the end. Seems like you were having good results at the last update. Did it remain reliable enough?

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Iā€™ve been doing this with a Disting Mk4 and the DIY MIDI I/O kit Thonk offers. Works great. It is set to quantize but obviously the incoming CV is already quantized - still, it works.

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Interesting, I saw that on the feature list for the Mk4. Sounds like youā€™re really happy with it. Do you ever get it playing wrong notes?

Maybe itā€™s time I upgrade from Mk3ā€¦

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You know, Iā€™ve never really paid attention to it. My Kria ramblings are so random that I would have no idea if a note was ā€œwrongā€ or not. That being said, Iā€™ve never had it play out of scale when the mk4 is set to semitones. There is another MIDI-only algorithm but I havenā€™t experimented with it yet.

For reference, Iā€™ve used the mk4 to send MIDI to a Slim Phatty (racked with my euro stuff), Minitaur, Bastl XOR, Mother 32, and a Volca FM. All with good results.

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Great thanks for the feedback, seems like a good option to consider

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It didnā€™t. 99.5% of the time it was fine and then an out of key note would sound (impossible based on the sequencing, so the Doepfer was the culprit). I gave up. Luckily, at the time, I had alternative strategies available. I still really want a reliable CV to Midi solution (hello monome! would this be a great new ansible mode?), but I donā€™t have one. I await the Delptronics module, which has been ā€˜coming soonā€™ for a year or soā€¦

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Iā€™m been trying to use the Novation Bass Station but itā€™s so inconsistently inaccurate. Probably hits right notes only 80% of the timeā€¦
Seems like the Disting Mk4 is a good bet. Also ADDAC222 and 221 seem like pretty great options though super pricey.

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You could really justify having a few Distings in a case as long as you donā€™t mind menu diving. I have a mk2 as well. Still, I have maybe 3 algorithms I use regularly and I just learn where they are and how they work. Another handy function is the two track recording to SD on the mk4. But the MIDI I/O is what made me pull the trigger.

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The Squarp Hermod will solve this: http://squarp.net/hermod

I have a Disting MIDI I/O expander that I may sell soon as Iā€™ve never actually used itā€¦