From dave@voceinc.com Tue Aug 28 08:31:19 2001
Subject:RE: help with voce stuff

Hey Larry,

You'll probably want to read the manual at: http://www.voceinc.com/. The
old drawbars work fine with the V3. Remember to set the old drawbars to CC
mode instead of DMI mode.

/Dave

> Firstly, Good Trader Alert: Ken Hall, member of this list and other
> [Hammond related list]s. Good man to deal with -- even from Canada,eh?
>
> Secondly and frustratingly:
> I must come to the list to help me solve a problem. Midi stuff.
>
> So I got this DMI-64, right? then I got me a set of Voce Mididrawbars.
> They never really did work well together, even with the midi-loop setup
> that you hafta use. Called around (years ago) and was told that maybe
> it was the DMI or the software or some magic that no one understood.
> And voce wasn't "supporting" it any more so tough. Whatever THAT meant.
> Great just Great. Among the 'solutions' was that perhaps it was
> much newer and therefore only worked on the "new" voce products. The
> volume, dist, click, and hum seem to all work fine just no draws!
>
> OK, so i get me a v3 from Ken *with* another set of draws. Finally! my
> dream of another set of clone draws -- excellent > hands, here > Soon I'll rule the world (or maybe just this organ). The
> Ken stuff :-) worked just fine together, of course. So, my dream of
> hookup upper/lower with draws was about to come true.
>
> To my frustration, the draws work identically on the v3 -- only worse.
> Now the "drawbars" light will not function -- course I didn't hook up
> the 'aux' loop either. But the volume, dist, etc (the knobs) work
> fine! So the old draws won't work right with anything!
>
> Now, tonight, i'm going to try a few more iterations of cable/draws.
> Like hooking up that silly aux loop and still hoping I can find a
> way to "splice in" the other draws.
>
> Any help, or ideas, or even legends about how voce was run by aliens
> (hey, I'll believe it) would be appreciated.
>
> Larry