[sdiy] Sequencer thoughts

[Tim Ressel]

Then there was the "Pink Tunes" program from Paia
which employed counters likened to dice, and produced
a bell curve random distribution. Pink Tunes used
these random numbers to pick notes from a candidate
list, but the idea can be adapted for CV or whatever.

--TR

--- Glen <mclilith at ezwv.com> wrote:
> At 09:08 PM 4/6/02 , Peter Grenader wrote:
> 
> >Options I've come up with are:
> >
> >1)  A single four bit data stream (another 4516)
> run at a super-high
> >frequency which, when gated by the 4042 at a
> considerably lower freq, should
> >give me quasi-random four bit number streams. A
> four bit sample and hold of
> >sorts. I believe this is how Serge did it, although
> I have not seen one of
> >those schemo's in a few years.
> >
> >2) Four independant white noise signals into four
> different comparitors, the
> >output of each  routed into 4042 latch inputs.  Not
> sure what in the hell
> >would happen there, but it seems less random than
> option 1
> 
> On the contrary, I doubt that you will get much more
> random than using four
> independent white noise generators. I certainly
> would expect it to be more
> random than solution #1. (When you said four
> signals, I assume you meant from
> different noise generators.)
> 
> 
> Later,
> Glen


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