sequencer / arpeggiator / echo

[Byron G. Jacquot]

>   Well if you want midi, then you're probably looking at a 
>micro based sequencer, even for 16 steps..

What he said.  By the time you've gone through the hassle of setting up even
a simple logic circuit for doing MIDI parsing or generation (say, with
4000/7400 series gates and some kind of UART), a microprocessor will have
long since proven it's usefulness.

Byron Jacquot