Hi David

> Where ever possible I would prefer to always have the option of CV/gate. I don't use midi much as I find the 128 step quantising very limited.

With an arpeggiator we are talking about how to generate note
information of a chord! This chord is broken up to an arpeggio. With CV
you can display a chord only by several parallel CVs (one for each note
of the chord).

I do not know how much about your experience with arpeggiators, but I
work really a lot with them in my SH-101 and the MonoPoly, and I mostly
use wide chords of more than six often over ten notes.

To be realistic: the question is only whether to use MIDI or to build a
separate keyboard with real keys.

Florian