Control Voltage (CV): What it is and How it Works — Daniel Fisher

Daniel Fisher, Sweetwater's mangler of modules, de-mystifies control voltage, and shows you how you can tap into its creative potential with your own synthesizer setup.

0:00 – Intro and First Performance
0:40 – Control Voltage Overview
2:15 – Filter Controlled by CV
4:09 – Filter Controlled by LFO Shapes
8:12 –CV Through an Attenuverter
9:27 – Sample & Hold CV Source
11:59 – CV is a Universal Source
12:15 – Oscillator Controlled by LFO Shapes
13:55 – Oscillator Controlled by an Envelope
15:43 – CV to Guitar Pedal's Expression Jack
17:24 – CV Controlling an EFX Polyphase Phase Shifter
19:28 – Moog Etherwave Plus as a CV Source
21:06 – CV Controlling Delay Times
21:54 – CV Controlling the Moog DFAM
23:47 – Analog Sequencer as a CV Source
25:20 – Thanks for Watching!
25:31 – Final CV Performance

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[sweetwater]

Control voltage demystified! Did this video help you? Let us know in the comments! Don't forget to like and subscribe for more 👍

[multistring]

The Synth Clips series is a vital extension of the text information provided in all the synth manuals. This CV brief, in particular, clearly illustrates the integration of CV sources and their applications. Daniel Fischer is an excellent facilitator. Thanks Sweetwater.... more please!

[jasonbarton]

Daniel Fisher- you make me smile, and teach me things- you are awesome!

[jared]

I'm beginning to think this man has taught me everything I know about synthesizers

[Feldspar__]

Thank you for repeating yourself. It helps drive the point home to understanding.

[anniedarkhorse]

Great video. There are not enough of these very basic videos. This was very helpful. If companies would make more very basic videos, they'd sell a lot more equipment.

[JonValtandtheEvilRobots]

If you’re looking for technical info, this video is geared to users.

It explains how it works practically but not the nuts and bolts of how it works fundamentally. He announces this at the beginning.

[stringks]

I am always Fisherized by Daniels knowledge. Thanks.

[cdmaguire]

Wow! New to synths, and this is exactly what I was looking for, and so clearly explained. Great job!

[TeleporterM]

Nice video, I hope Sweetwater does more on this type of video on Cv and midi.

[norbertorivera]

I appreciate that you've condensed control voltage information into an amount of information that is easily digestible! Thank you!!

[lordshiva]

Sweetwater is the BEST company!! Thanks for passing along this knowledge

[finonomastropiero]

Ufff loved that Emerson Lake & Palmer moment 10:03

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[onerom_evad]

Yes this helped, thank you for your time!

[arminfatol]

Awesome video, very clear explanations. I have learned a lot from this, thank you! 🙏

[FursAndMasksMusic]

Cheers dude that was really nice, great examples. Helped me set in stone some things I was pretty sure I already knew but I now definitely know!

[dr.zarkhov]

Very informative.Thanks for the beginner explanation Dan.

[BenA]

Excellent video, wonder why it's not part of the synth tips series?

[FairianneEdwards]

Hay thanks for this, it is very useful, great content and nicely presented all clean and simple

[bobs]

As always, Sweetwater does a great job with the 'How-to' videos. Thanks!
I want to know about the pitch and velocity knobs on the DFAM. Is that a custom set up? Mine has the tiny knobs, I would prefer to have the large knobs like in the video.