AW: Re: Analog Sequencer Poll

[Christopher_List at Sonymusic.Com]

  > Another point: For a future sequencer design, a
  > "skip" capabillity would be important to me. Now there is
  > a similar problem with "skip" as with random: you either need
  > some additional high-speed-clock to quickly jump to the next
  >
  > stage (and you'll need N high-speed-clock cycles to skip N stages!),
  > or you need quite some overhead logic to detect stages that shall be skipped
  > *before* the actual clock pulse. This second solution would probably
  > need a discrete-flipflop (vs. binary counter) design.
  > Things become more complicated if you want a skip
  > function in up *and* down mode as well.

  Option 1 seem pretty easy....
  1. Your "skip" switches work just like trigger output switches - that is
  they are all summed into one bus but only the switch at the current
  sequencer step gets voltage.
  2. You have a simple HF osc. (relaxation, etc) - 20kHz would be plenty I
  think.
  3. You AND the pulses from this osc. with the "skip" switch bus and OR
  the output with the clock input.

  That should work -right? Am I missing something?

  In fact, you could make it patchable between the row of switches and the
  AND with the HFosc. - so that the switch row could either be used as x0x
  drum machine style triggers or as skips!

  - CList