You know with the buzz around the Volta, it won't be long before
someone else jumps in and does it. After all there sure has been a lot
of people making audio interfaces forever and with a few tweaks you
have this idea in a box. Make it USB2 or FireWire and have it do the
ramping stuff in hardware and you have it. Basically MOTU is doing
somebody's market research for them. And if they make it do out and in
and at a decent voltage level with a decent number of channels, they
will steal the market from MOTU in a second. I'm sure all the modular
makers are checking out their resources as we speak!

- James

On Jan 17, 2009, at 2:24 PM, Guy Drieghe D. wrote:

> Yes, James, you're right. My mistake - no DC in to Volta; I
> misinterpreted a few things. Perhaps blinded by my enthusiasm, mea
> culpa.
>
> Volta's designer (Matthew Davidson, of Stretta fame) says that he'd
> love to design a dedicated interface for this, but he has "to
> demonstrate a significant market need" [to Motu].
> Unfortunately, Motu isn't Doepfer -- they don't do user polls.
>
> _g
>
> > Volta may be able to record DC voltages but as far as I know and
> read
> > - there are no standard sound cards or interfaces (including the
> MOTU
> > ones) that will allow the input of DC. You can input audio at the
> same
> > time you output DC from the plugin though. This is referred to allot
> > in the reviews talking about syncing etc to external devices. There
> > has been talk of modifying devices to maybe get them to input DC by
> > removing the AC coupling found on them but I have seen no hands on
> > reviews that have said the recording of DC is possible. All the
> > reviews and write ups I have seen only talk of controlling your
> > modular and none have mentioned the possibility of recording (even
> the
> > Max hack that has been shown that pre-dated the Volta) If you have
> > seen any this let us know.
> >
> > -James
> >
> > On Jan 17, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Guy Drieghe D. wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >> Perhaps I'm mistaken but from what I understand, VOLTA is only a
> > one
> > >> way system which, because of DC protection on all ( ) interface
> > >> inputs, does not allow for CV control i.e. actual performance -
> > to be
> > >> recorded.
> > >>
> > >
> > > No. Volta is a 2-way system.
> > > You can feed a signal from your modular (any signal) back into
> Volta
> > > and process it any way you like. That way you can for instance
> host-
> > > sync your CV's and signals with any effect (or soft-synth or
> > whatever)
> > > in your DAW. Or you can record the output of your ribboncontroller
> > and
> > > treat it as data. In fact, once you feed signals back into Volta
> it
> > > becomes kindof a virtual instrument. The possibilities are
> endless.
> > >
> > > So, since you can feed your modular signals back into Volta, it
> gets
> > > really powerful to send these signal backs to your modular, once
> > > you've ehm, done things to them (in Volta).
> > >
> > >
> > >> ... so we're still waiting for somebody to design a DC capable,
> CV
> > >> recorder.
> > >>
> > > Why Volta can do this, no problem.
> > > Your DAW becomes your CV recorder, and it's only limited to your
> > > available memory/HD space.
>
>



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