AW: Moog sequencer

[Haible Juergen]

	>1
	>2
	>3, 6
	>4, 7
	>5, 8
	>6, 1
	>7, 2
	>8, 3, 6
	>1, 4, 7
	>2, 5, 8
	>
	>etc. etc. If you just let it run it will eventually set all
stages "on"
	>with two "off" stages travelling across, either 2 or 4 stages
apart from
	>each other.  Very psuedo-random.

Thanks, Gene !

Now it does make sense to me. (I wasn't aware that the additional
on-stages would be propagated as well.)

	>Good for
	>non-chromatic stuff, I'd imagine, and intuition tells me that
it would be
	>rather hard to keep things on a "western" scale...

Chromatic steps would be what it produces all by itself, if the
individual stages are part of the chromatic scale. But this is
still not what we'd always desire ...
But try this: Set *all* steps to 0.58V (a 5th) and let it run with your
patch from above. Should build up very harmonic structures.
Or program a row with 5ths, 4ths and other "harmless" intervalls
- I'd try it myself, if I had a Moog sequencer ...

	>The Moog's distinctive feature, I think, would be the
SKIP/NORMAL/STOP
	>rotary switch on each step. This allows you to run the
sequencer and then
	>drops steps into the sequence or take them out (which of course
changes the
	>overall sequence length). I'm pretty sure that this is done
during certain
	>parts of the two-album set of Tangerine Dream live - you can
hear a bass
	>sequence bounce between two notes and then a third note drops
in, and then
	>a fourth, and so on with notes taken in and out (artistically,
of course)
	>after that. Probably Chris Franke messing with these switches.

The "Encore" album - one of TD's finest ever !
I thought they would have done it with a Oberheim Mini Sequencer which
was part of the Two Voice - you can change the sequence length with the
turn of one rotary switch there. But I am only guessing - probably they
used all sequencers they owned at the same time.
BTW, I think it was in the famous "The making of rubycon" text, where
another
of TD's sequencing tricks was described: Run two sequencers in parallel
and switch between the outputs. While one sequence is playing, change
the other one slightly "at the fly". Must be a very creative process,
but not
as dangerous as real time tweaking of the running sequence.

JH.


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