AW: Re: Sequencer Update

[jhaible]

>>Personally, I am no fan of quantized triplets etc. For some reason, a
straight 
>beat 
>>of 1/8s sounds right to me, but quantized triplets sound funny ...
>
>You're not into rock n' roll then?

I like prog rock like Gentle Giant and King Crimson. As a listener, that
is.
No way for me to *play* that stuff myself (;->).

As for triplets, I think (and my knowledge of music theory is quite
limited),
that "triplets" are not exact triplets most of the time, but rather
something
in between straight 1/8s and triplets. At least, that's what I read in the
textbooks,
and when I have tried to program triplets on my old "Twelve" program, it
always did 
sound like a one-man-band's automat and not like a rock group.

>Well, if you use a VCO for clocking, you can have a thumbwheel that
selects 
>different points on a voltage divider. That's how I was thinking of doing
it on 
>the Superseque. But then I started thinking about syncing the sequencer to

>other things. Midi clock for example. 
>If you control step length by changing the clock frequency, then will it
not be 
>impossible to sync it? Wouldn't it be better if you ran the VCO at 24
pulses 
>per quarter note and then used dividers to get the different note lengths?
You 
>could still use a thumbwheel to select between different note lengths. In
this 
>case you just would select between the outputs from different dividers.

You're right. It would be hard to sync it. So the 6 or 12 notes sequence
length
would be the way to go. Speaking of sync, don't expect me to include a Midi
or DIN sync. I'm thinking about an envelope extractor / trigger circuit to
derive
clock pulses from a bass track on the tape machine, for example. I've
patched
something like this on my Modular, from a schmitt trigger and a non
retriggerable
AD envelope generator, and it actually works (for friendly input signals).

>By the way, I didn't quite understand what you meant by 8x4. I thought you

>meant 8 steps and four different voltage pots per step. 

>Another thing I thought about on the Superseque is to have a range switch
for 
>the voltage on the pots. 

Yes, that's important. You can't scale it down later, because of the
quantizer.
It must be built in.

JH.