CV.OCD - A super flexible MIDI to CV box

Name: CV.OCD - A super flexible MIDI to CV box
SKU: 8132
Price: 199.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.86 (47 reviews)

(47 Reviews)

Four analog CV outputs, Twelve gate outputs, a wide range of MIDI to CV mapping options at a budget price!

Designed by Sixty Four Pixels in United Kingdom

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Four analog CV outputs, Twelve gate outputs, a wide range of MIDI to CV mapping options at a budget price!

CV.OCD is a device which converts MIDI signals to the Control Voltage (CV) and Trigger/Gate signals which are used to control traditional analog synthesizers. As well as doing this useful bit of “plu…

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Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (5.00)

Documentation: (4.77)

Shipping: (4.77)

Communication: (4.89)

Lucas | Nov. 16, 2020

Great MIDI to CV box

I've had this unit for over a year and have had no issues at all. Software is easy to use and is very flexible. I set it up the way I wanted and never had to change a thing.

William | July 13, 2020

Excellent device for my modular. Works as expected.

Love the CV.OCD. It works great and is super customizable. Very professional transaction and everything arrived as expected. I will keep an eye on products from Jason and will gladly buy more from him.

Ollie | June 25, 2020

Fantastic

It really is brilliant, does exactly what I was looking for.
The setup page is great, easy to configure and very flexible.
Get it!

Luk | March 3, 2020

Great! Just bought another one...

I'm very happy with the CV.OCD!

The perfect CV/GATE link between my Squarp Pyramid and DFAM and Dominion 1.
Highly recommended for people who don't have Eurorack and need a CV/GATE device to translate MIDI signals.

Feike | March 27, 2019

thumbs up

Super flexible, steady and powerful connection between my DAW and modular. I'm using a USB 2 MIDI cable and that works like a charm

Sacha | March 21, 2019

It does what it says it does

Only used it for straight midi to CV so far. Works as it should out of the box. Which is all I ask for with music gear.

Jonas | Feb. 28, 2019

what a great tool

Easy to use, super flexible, space saving cv extension. thx for inventing this
!! the editor as a standalone application would be very helpful

Daniel | Dec. 5, 2018

Nice MIDI to CV Box...does what it should do!

So just quick and dirty...
- easy to use
- great size and stable build
- useful editor to customize all the outputs

I use the CV.OCD to control my CV-gear via the digitakt-MIDI-Tracks...and that works fine!

I can totally recommend this box ...although MIDI-Through would be on my wishlist ;-).

Thanks for the CV.OCD...just what i was searching for!

cheers
dkmnews

Øystein | Nov. 16, 2018

Great product!

I'm using it with two Oberheim SEM modules, so I can set to play them polyphonically, separately from different midi channels, or in unison, just by transferring a different sysex string via midi. I'm also going to use it to send triggers to my Simmons sds8 drum machine from another midi channel. Still haven't tried it with my yamaha hz/v cv controlled synths as I have them hooked up directly to my Synthstrom Deluge sequencer (another great unit!), but I'm sure the cv.ocd is capable to pass the correct cv here as well.

I have only one wish that is not fulfilled when controlling the SEMs: As far as I can see, the cv.ocd can't send negative cv, so the lower octaves are not available (please someone correct me if there is a setting for it that I didn't find). Hopefully it will be possible with a firmware update or in the next cv.ocd version :)

In all other aspects, the cv.ocd is the perfect stand-alone midi2cv controller! Even able to control up to four voices!

Alexis | Oct. 28, 2018

As described and does exactly what it should

Had it for a bit now, really solid construction, and had no issues using it so far.
Very interesting product in general!

Matthew | Sept. 13, 2018

Awesome piece of gear

CV.OCD is slim, well put together, and poewrful. This is exactly what I needed to help bridge the gap between my desktop sequencers and my pile of modular / semi-modular gear. There's no doubt that I'll be getting a lot of use out of this.

Alessandro | Aug. 11, 2018

Just what I was looking for!

Without this miraculous little box I could not have done this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3mLN1UsQQ4

Cameron | Aug. 1, 2018

CV OCD handy and works just as advertised

The CV OCD has been working perfectly for me. The only thing I would change is making it eurorack mountable. Keep up the good work!

David | July 30, 2018

this midi > cv power box rocks!!

Very flexible, easy to configure, works flawless, wow!

shipping from uk to austria was also very fast.

11/10

Dominic | July 20, 2018

Simply awesome

Highly recommended. Well constructed, works out of the box. Has hugely extended my midi to cv capabilities. Essential.

Yannick | July 17, 2018

LOVE it!

I'm fairly new to this world of cv and gate. Nonetheless this device was up and running in minutes. Driving 2 analog synths and triggering an old simmons electronic drum module from my daw. It is well built, is very versatile, looks nice and does just what I need. And all this for a very, very competitive price! Shipping wasn't really fast, but nothing to complain about! I'd say pretty darn good job!

Emilio | June 11, 2018

Excellent device, extremely useful

The CV.OCD is just the device I needed to connect my Octatrack's MIDI channels to my Eurorack system. It's simple and works like a charm out of the box. I'm using it to send clock signal from the OT to a Temps Utile, and also to send pitch and gate from two MIDI tracks (it could be used to send up to for tracks).
Everything works just fine, you quickly forget that you're using it, which is the best thing to say of a device like this.

Highly recommended!

Christian | June 11, 2018

Exactly what I was looking for

Following setup (simplified):
Arturia Keystep (via Midi) -> MPC Live (standalone) (via Midi) -> cv.ocd -> Behringer D (CV - velocity; CV - aftertouch)
-> cv.ocd -> Behringer D (gates for Filter/Loudness-Env.)
-> -> ->-> Behringer D (Pitch, ModWheel, PitchWheel, Gate)
Works very nice :) and I still have free CV / gate / Trigger - Outs for other uses...

Chris from Austria

Benjamin | June 11, 2018

Awesome !

I am using my Cv.ocd with my modular and I love it. Very easy to use, well built and so useful ! I would definetly order more products in the future

Alan | June 11, 2018

Fantastic!

Bought cv.ovd to use with Zaquencer and it worked perfectly right outta the box. Previously, controlling my eurorack via Zaquencer was extremely convoluted (Zaq > DAW > Silent Way > ES-3) so being able to plug this in directly and roll within a matter of minutes was a joy. Changing the configuration was quick and painless too. I can't say enough good about cv.ocd... it's a seemingly simple tool, that's had a major impact on my workflow.

Hans Jørgen | Jan. 11, 2018

Plug and play still existst.

I use it to connect my modular to Ableton without wasting precious HP space. It worked perfectly and stays in time well. Havent tested all the options but I'm sure it is fine. Build quality also good!

Alan | Jan. 7, 2018

Very usable

Got three of these to to run CVs from ableton on moog mother32, Pitts Mod Sv1 and similar synths. Found unit really well built and solid and sysex configuration very flexible. Its designed to run four synths and a drum machine. Would be great if all the outputs could could run cv via cc messages, maybe the editor might be update to do this if the unit can physically do that? I duno? That said, it was the closest thing I could find to do the job, really we thought out product.

Patrick | Dec. 28, 2017

Brilliant device

Hooked up my Digitakt via this box to my Eurorack and wow, what a difference. Was expecting configuration to be quite confusing, but it's not too bad at all and the manual is very detailed. Love this thing. Shipping was quick and good communication too!

Antonio | Dec. 12, 2017

AWESOME midi-cv converter

Great tool, incredibly flexible. Well constructed, and for the price, is the best option you can have right now.

Matthew | Nov. 20, 2017

Great Product

Really happy with the purchase, the handiest utility to use with my modular gear.
Seller sent straight away.

Highly Recommend

Nathan | Nov. 14, 2017

next level design

Echoing the other reviews here - I think this is the best midi-CV on the market; the size and cost are very welcome; build and aesthetic is nice; simple to use and very well thought out, the configuration options are super easy, flexible, and fast. (I had never used Sysex before but it turns out it's like a 2 mouse-clicks process.)

I would for sure buy a second one (if my system grows to need one).

The routing options (e.g. chord, cycle, gate options) are icing on the cake. A sincere thank you to Jason for making this -- it really opens up a ton of creative control that was till now untapped.

Derek | Oct. 29, 2017

Super useful utility!

I’ve only had it in the rig for a few days, and I already can’t live without it. It fills all the holes I had with transport signals and clock.

Andrew | Oct. 27, 2017

Best MIDI-to-CV box!

Pros:
Works perfectly
Well-built
Super portable
Easy params builder via SysEx

Cons:
I only got one

Martin | Oct. 27, 2017

Top piece of kit and a rock bottom price.

Great communication. Was going on holidays and asked him to post when I got back which he did as promised.
Well packed.
Very well built and solid.
All for just over €100!
Roll on 8 channel version!
Highly recommended.

Daniel | Oct. 27, 2017

I am really happy I found the CV.OCD, it's amazing!

Been waiting for a small and cheap CV/MIDI device which does the job well, the CV.OCD is just perfect and includes some extra cool features, worth the wait!

Mark | Oct. 27, 2017

Very flexible piece of kit!

Love using it to intercept aftertouch and transmit a CV to my MS-20kit.
At present I have it controlling the CV and gate of three Monotribes in polychain mode.
It is a great part of an experimental synthesis diet!

The learning curve is fairly small, and you can fab up new experiments with
just zapping some new sysex code to the CV OCD, which makes it quite flexible.

Tom | July 31, 2017

Best MIDI-CV adapter, great price.

Best MIDI-CV adapter even compared to options many times it's price. Size, simplicity, functionality, versatility. Love it.

Njål | June 9, 2017

What a great box!

Finally! For those of us with a pretty stable setup, this box is so great. Highly recommended, works perfectly.

Joe | May 6, 2017

Awesome!

I was looking for a MIDI - CV device for my modular setup and stumbled upon this awesome thing!
Extremely full featured and about half the price of similar functionality devices.
A breeze to setup the confguration to exactly how you like it, if you've ever sent sysex to anything, you won't really need to read the manual.
All in all, proper good.

Brent | April 28, 2017

Awesome MIDI CV IO Board for Hardware Sequencers.

I was looking for more cv outputs for my Squarp Pyramid sequencer and stumbled across this from my favourite Arpie 4 Designer.

The flexibility of this unit is seriously excellent. It seems confusing at first as you read the manual but as you think about it and what you want to achieve it becomes a lot easier plus patching with a new sysex makes experimentation easier; though I wish someone would make a tiny hardware sysex loader, using a microsd card... But I digress.

The build quality is excellent and it's diminutive size means it can fit on a crowded studio table.

I especially love the ability to create trigs from cc# crossing thresholds. It's seriously awesome. I'd love for that feature to be extended with creating trigs etc when the cc was in a user defined range.

To sum up Hotchkiss has done it again the cv.ocd is a well engineered triumph. I'm glad I found it, you will be too if you have any modular like equipment in a traditional midi studio environment. And a bargain to boot. Love it.

Response from Sixty Four Pixels | May 1, 2017

Cheers! i am intrigued by your sysex loader idea - drop me a message if you want to let me know more about it

Jim | April 26, 2017

Over and above all expectations!

The CV OCD is well-built, and works perfectly. Fast shipping, clear documentation, and flawless support software. Excellent communication with the seller.

I will certainly be ordering more products from this company.

Mike | April 9, 2017

This little box is AWESOME!

I love that you can reconfigure this however you want. I have it setup right now to take in 3 midi channels and output 3 cvs/triggers/gates. This lets me controll it with my Launchpad through renoise/stepp0r.

Check it out:

https://youtu.be/8suxnZmE4lk

-m

Graham | March 10, 2017

Excellent tiny and versatile + amazing customer service

Sixty four pixels make great stuff and provide impeccable customer service. This little box is similar to the Roland MPU-101 but without the disadvantages of no clock, being quite large and costing a lot and with the very significant advantage of programable outputs.

Successfully converted midi input, run velocity to filter via CV (its great you can set voltage on output - really useful for controlling filter range) and used mod wheel to control portamento.
And the size is a real bonus; my “studio” space is tiny.

Luke | Feb. 28, 2017

amazing!

I'm in love with this little box. i sequence my modular from Logic and this allows me to have plenty of melodic / harmonic material with the four CV / Gate outs and 8 percussive elements sequenced at the same time. it's a brilliant well built solution, i might actually try to get a second one at some point. bravo!

Meng | Feb. 17, 2017

beautiful

Very quality and useful product and awesome service.
i would recommend tracked shipping.
i give all five stars.

Mattzog | Jan. 17, 2017

Tons of functionality at a great price.

Does exactly what I need at an incredibly low price. Front panel interface is minimal, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make for the solid implementation, plethora of options and low power draw.

Srirupa | Jan. 11, 2017

CV.OCD is excellent and inexpensive

Super happy about this. Price is great, shipped fast, docs are excellent, setup and UI are on point. This is a great device, thanks for making it!

Marta | Dec. 9, 2016

Amazing!

I'm using it to connect Ableton Live with my eurorack modular synth, and it works GREAT! And it is fully programmable. Thank you so much!

David | Nov. 25, 2016

extremely good MIDI-CV conversion for cheap!

It's a neat little box, very configurable, very handy form factor (0hp and uses standard guitar pedal power). I can interface my DAW with my modular so much better than with my MicroBrute alone; it works perfectly and is a great value. Highly recommended

While there hasn't been a problem yet, I am a little concerned about the durability of the jacks -- they are directly mounted to the circuit board apparently, without nuts securing them to the front panel, and patch cords don't click solidly into place. I take a little extra care when patching it and don't really expect any problems though.

As with many small electronic devices, I do wish it had a power switch -- but as the control center for a modular system, it's not like unplugging another cable is a big hardship.

Patrick | Nov. 16, 2016

Amazing for Drum Triggers

I bought this to send drum triggers from my Cirklon to Eurorack and it works perfectly.

It has very well thought out options for configuration, is well built and is really small. I love it! I love Hotchk155!

Jerome | Nov. 12, 2016

FANTASTIC DEVICE

Awesome device: the ultimate missing link between daw & vintage or modular gear

Very compact, beautifully designed, very qualitative and easily customisable (by SySex programs)
(Vintage drums brains à-la-Simmons , Tama, vintage CV/Gate synthetizers, recent pedals CV/gate-ready, modular...: with this device you get so many CV & gate possibilities in one-box!)

The builder-conceptor is a very reactive and comprehensive guy

What else?

Marpot | Nov. 12, 2016

Amazing utility !

It does the job well, leaves space in the rack, and is configurable in pretty much any way you may desire.
The power supply is the same as a guitar pedal so if you already have a pedalbay around your modular it becomes a killer choice.

Don't have much more to say then, Hotchk155's designs are dope as always... :D

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