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More about Voltage Control

The Control or Clock jacks are expecting control voltages to be 0 to 5 volts. The jacks are protected from

over-voltages and negative voltages, but anything over 5 volts is considered 5 volts and any negative

voltage is considered 0 volts.

To interpret the incoming control voltage, the Trigger Man divides the 5V range into equal sized steps

depending on the parameter being modified.

For example, if an output is 8 steps long, then it has 8 possible values for shift, 36 possible values for

complexity, and 256 possible values for the whole sequence. An output that is 7 steps long has

maximum values for shift, complexity, and sequence of 7, 20, and 128 respectively. It is not necessary

for a user to know these numbers. The Trigger Man knows them and will do all of the required math.

When voltage controlling shift or complexity, a control voltage of 0.5V or less is has no effect, just as if

the option was turned off or nothing was plugged into the control jack. The Remaining 4.5V range is

divided into equal sized steps depending on the parameter being modified.

When voltage controlling the sequence, the entire 5V range is used. If nothing is plugged into the

Control jack, then the all steps will remain off for that output (because the input voltage is always 0V).

Mathematically inclined users should note that, when voltage controlling the sequence, the sequence is

not set to the binary equivalent of the voltage, but rather all of the possible sequences are sorted in

ascending complexity and shift order. Stated another way, a slowly increasing voltage has the same

effect as turning the complexity knob one click, then turning the shift knob through each of the shift

values, then turning the complexity knob another click, and so on.

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