[sdiy] 2 unrelated questions.

[Paul Maddox]

Seb,

> Now as people said this was not ideal as playing any new notes
> would retrigger the whole set, what if it were set up so once the gate had
> been triggered it could not be retriggered until all keys had been
released
> (so adding notes does just that, adds notes with no retriggering). could
> this be done with say an xor gate on the trigger or would this not work?
>

yeah, this sounds like a nice solution...
It would be fine for chords...
THough ;-
If you held down 3 notes...
Then let go of one, it would still sound...
come to that so would the fourth osc... you shoudl really use 4VCAs
(SSM2164)

>     Secondly, please forgive a not strictly analogue question: Chaos
> oscillators.  I am interested in building a vco that outputs a fractal or
> chaotic waveform

yeah, I fancy trying this one day..

> Could something like a PIC chip (as i understand often used for
interfacing
> purposes) be adapted for this role, and if so, how complex are they to
> program?

PICs arent too complex to program, As for doing Choas generation I dont
know, I guess it could be done..
done know how well though..

> Once agin thanx for any help and sorry for the digital question.

I love digital questions on this list :-)

Paul (devils Advocate) Maddox