[sdiy] trying to understand appregiators in late 70's synths

[Andre Majorel]

On 2009-01-03 20:16 -0700, Bob Weigel wrote:
> Doug Terrebonne wrote:
>
>> The ultimate arpeggiator is the Europa Jupiter-6. Check out all
>> the features here -
>> http://www.synthcom.com/Europa/support/EuropaUserGuideV1.0.pdf
>>
>> I think the earliest synth with an arpeggiator was the
>> Jupiter-4 in 1979. Anyone know of one earlier?
>>
> It's also one of the best in my opinion :-).  Other arpeggiators
> you  have to hit right on the money or it's train wreck time.
> Eg. Akai AX60  eg. Korg poly's etc.

Because you top-post, when you write "it", it's not clear whether
you're referring to the Jupiter-4 or Jupiter-6.

How can the output of an arpeggiator be a train wreck ? I thought
notes were produced according to the clock, not to when the key
was pressed...

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André Majorel <URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>