Expert Sleepers Silent Way v1.7.3 - Manual (Page 42)

Silent Way CV Input
Introduction
Silent Way CV Input provides a means of getting control voltages from an analogue synth
into the computer, which is not normally possible since the DC voltages of CVs are
blocked by the inputs of all current audio interfaces. Once inside the computer, CVs can be
recorded, or processed as any other signal before being output back to the synth.
It operates as a stereo or mono plug-in. In stereo mode, the two channels are independent
and have identical controls. In mono mode, the ‘Right Channel’ controls are not used.
There are two main usages for the plug-in - with an off-the-shelf VCA, and with the Expert
Sleepers ES-2 module (a hardware device specially designed to work with the Silent Way
CV Input plug-in).
Setup - with VCA
In this mode, the Silent Way CV Input plug-in is used in conjunction with a VCA of some
kind (which includes some ‘ring modulator’ devices).
An instance of the plug-in is loaded in the host, and one of its channels switched to ‘Gen-
erator’ mode (as in the image above). The output of this channel should be routed out of
the computer and into the ‘signal’ input of the VCA. The CV that you want to get into the
computer should be connected to the ‘CV’ input of the VCA.
The output of the VCA should then be routed back to the computer, and fed into an in-
stance of the CV Input plug-in (this could be the other half of the Generator plug-in, or a