hello jonathan,
the a190 has a rather not very friendly user interface
and it has lots of functions.
whey don't you look at the user manual here:
http://www.doepfer.de/a100_man/A190_man.pdf
bakis.




--- Jonathan Heslop < jon@... > wrote:

> Figured some of this out myself. In Config - CV1
> when you press a
> key you're selecting the lowest note on your midi
> keyboard. To
> access gate polarity, CV Char and Retrigger you need
> to send program
> change 1 - 6. There is no way to change them
> directly via the front
> panel. Okay. So all I need to do is send program
> change 6 from my
> Technics wsa1 or cubasis. I can't seem to get it to
> work though.
> When I send the program change do I need to have CV1
> selected Do I
> need to patch into the ADSR retrig/gate aswell
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , "Jonathan
> Heslop" <jon@p...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, my first post.
> >
> > I bought a Doepfer A-100 from ebay a week or so
> ago. It finally
> > arrived yesterday and I have had fun fiddling with
> it. I'm
> suprised
> > at how easy it is to use, I have come up with a
> few sounds I quite
> > like. I did spend the first hour scratching my
> head as to why
> there
> > was no sound coming out of the machine, turns out
> two of the patch
> > cables supplied don't work :-)
> >
> > The one module that I can't get my head around is
> the A-190 MCVS
> > module. Channel, LFO Frq, Bend W, CV2 seem to work
> okay but the
> > Glide setting either does nothing or it changes
> the pitch of the
> > note I'm playing (I don't hear any glide though).
> CV1 under the
> > Config menu acts very strangely. As soon as I have
> it selected
> > (without pressing the Inc/Dec buttons) the gate
> signal seems to
> get
> > messed up, notes are either too short or they get
> stuck on. CV1
> > seems to be the only menu that has sub menus I'm
> trying to
> > access "Retrigger", I'm hopeing this setting
> changes the way the
> > ADSR's behave . ATM an ADSR won't retrigger when
> you already have
> a
> > key pressed (I'm guessing it's currently set to
> off).
> >
> > I know you can change these settings via midi CC
> but I would like
> to
> > figure out how to change them via the front panel.
> >
> > Any help would be great!
> >
>
>
>
>
>

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