MIDI, clock and CV: connecting it to other gear

1. The back panel has the audio and headphone outputs, USB, MIDI in and out, clock in and out, and the CV, gate and pressure outputs. Press Next.
2. Open Utility, find Global with the Preset knob and press, then find MIDI and press. This is where channels and destinations are set.
   Stuck?

   Press Utility, scroll to Global, press, scroll to MIDI, press.

3. The model shows a few of these lines. On the real synth you also find output destination, Thru, knob CC sending and Merge. Press Utility to leave.
   Stuck?

   Press the Utility button.

4. Sync (in Global) picks the clock source and format. CV/Gate sets pitch, gate and pressure formats. The CV pitch output carries one note: the last key you played. Press Next.

USB for a computer, MIDI cables for other synths, CV for modulars, and the settings for each live in Utility > Global.

The MicroFreak has a 6.35 mm main output (TS or TRS), a 3.5 mm headphone output, USB, MIDI in and out on 3.5 mm sockets (use the MIDI adapters that come with it for standard 5-pin gear), 3.5 mm clock in and out, and CV outputs for pitch, gate and pressure. The headphone socket is also the microphone input for the vocoder. In Utility > Global > MIDI you set the input and output channels, the output destination (none, USB, MIDI or both), Local on or off, Arp/Seq MIDI out, Thru (passes incoming MIDI on to the output), whether knobs send CCs, and Merge (mixes incoming MIDI with the MicroFreak's own). Sync sets the source (internal, USB, MIDI, Clock or Auto), the clock format and Global Tempo. CV/Gate sets pitch format (1V/oct, Hz/V or 1.2V/oct: the voltage standards modular gear uses for pitch), gate format and pressure range. Pitch CV carries a single note: the last key played, or the lowest note of a sequence step.