Product description "Doepfer Musikelektronik GmbH - A-173-1/2 Micro Keyboard / Manual Gates"
The A-173-1 features a miniature keyboard made of 15 vertically arranged buttons. Using the modules switch, it is possible to choose from three octave ranges. The A-173-2 outputs control voltages generated by the keyboard. Besides global CV and gate connectors, there are 15 individual outs. – One for each key. This means that up to 15 processes can be triggered or stopped in parallel. The CV output works according to the standard 1v per octave. A learn function allows users to decouple individual keys from the CV bus. – This way, it is possible to use an octave for playing notes or transposing patterns, while the other buttons control sequencers and modulators.