New sequencer trix

[Dave Halliday]

>     (amplitude too low).  Instead of getting mad, I got even and stuffed a 
>     comparator between the clock input and the counter IC and now the 
>     sequencer will clock off anything.  Hold a mike up to it and fart 
>     across the room.  It will hop a few steps.
>     Now, you may wonder - what is so amazing about this?  Well, first I 
>     thought Hmmm, now I can use any waveform to clock these little 
>     monkeys, sine, triangle, saw....  but then it finally dawned on me:  
>     pump white noise into the sample and hold and use the S&H output to 
>     clock the sequencer!  Need a little jazz to loosen up a groove?  This 
>     will scratch your itch. 

To further compound this, you could have a divide-by circuit after the 
comparater.  Normally you would use it at 1/1, 1/2 or 1/4 but when you 
have a really "jittery" input signal, you could sort of slow it down a 
bit with 1/16 or 1/64 but still keep the jittery quality to it.

Of course, with this level of division, you would have to eat a lot of 
beans and cabbage to be triggering it for long periods of time...


The 1/2 and 1/4 could work really well when running two sequencers 
together - have one run the melody and the second, divided one run the 
filters...  Bit of S&H in there and this sounds like a fun project!


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