User Manual
Dark link
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Overview
2. Overwiev
Dark Link uses a very simple user-interface. To be exactly, it is not much more than the learn button and
one additional knob. The learn-button is used to congurate Dark Link and ”tell” it, in which manner it has to
transform incomming MIDI data into analogue control voltages and the gate signal.
The GLIDE knob controls the – you guessed it – the glide time of Dark Link‘s internal glide function.
As a hidden feature, you will also nd a simple but useful arpeggiator which is also accessed by the learn
button. It‘s use is pretty simple, even without a display.
Dark Link receives MIDI data via it‘s USB port or the MIDI-IN DIN-socket. Please do not use both
simultanously.
The ve 1/8“ mini sockets provide the four controlvoltages and the gate signal, generated by Dark Link.
Powersupply
(12V AC, 200mA)
CV-Outputs
CV1: controlled by MIDI-note numbers
(1V/Octave, 0...+5V)
CV2: controlled by MIDI-pitchbend data
(centered approx. -2,5...+2,5V or positive 0...+5V,
userselectable via internal jumper)
CV3: controlled by MIDI-velocity data
(0...+5V)
CV4: controlled by MIDI-controller data
(learn mode for setting via controller number, 0...+5V)
Gate-Output:
(with LED, also for learn function),
+/-5V, +/-12V, Switch-Trigger selectable via internal jumper
inverted polarity via learn-mode
Learn button
MIDI input
USB
(MIDI via USB)
for configuration of
gate-signal and
cv-outs as well as for
control of internal
arpeggiator with the
help of MIDI prgm-
change data
GLIDE knob
controls duration of glide effect
between two successive notes