Video of Silent Way running from Ableton Live to control the pitch of a Doepfer A-110 oscillator and trigger Doepfer A-140 ADSR via a Motu 828. The pattern at the end is generated by Numerology.
… It’s not even new! In short time two new plug-ins have popped up that deals with voltage control. First MOTUs Volta (no, not that Volta), and most recently Expert Sleepers Silent Way (via: Sonicstate).
So what do these do?
From MOTU:
Volta is a virtual instrument plug-in that turns your audio interface into a voltage control interface.
Any hardware device with a control voltage (CV) input can be placed under precise digital control from your favorite audio workstation software. You can play and automate modulars, analog synths – even effects processors.
From Expert Sleepers:
Silent Way is a suite of plug-ins designed for use as part of a modular analogue synthesiser system. The plug-ins produce no sound themselves, nor do they process sound – rather, they generate signals to be used as control voltages (CVs), which can be patched into the control inputs of oscillators, filters, VCAs etc. of an analogue system.
For me the idea of automating CV hardware sounds very tempting. Who will make this type of plug-in available to Pro Tools users?
i agree!
Well, we (Expert Sleepers) could make an RTAS version of Silent Way. But would it work with Pro Tools hardware? The outputs need to be DC-coupled – so far the only ones on the market that seem to be so are the MOTU products and some RME interfaces.