[sdiy] DIY Moog 960 Sequencer

[Graham Atkins]

An expert on all things 960 is Morbius whose site is here :-

http://www.musicbycybertron.com/

I'm sure he would be happy to discuss it with you.

Graham

On 27 Aug 2010, at 21:59, Stewart Pye wrote:

> I'm building a sequencer based on the operation of the Moog 960, but  
> using an AVR microcontroller to do all the shifting and control,  
> with a precision DAC for a quantised CV output.
>
> From the Moog schematic it looks like the IN socket and the SET  
> switch for each step cause the sequencer to jump to that step  
> immediately.
>
> I don't have all the switches or the DAC hooked up yet, but I  
> thought it would be better to have the SET switch action wait until  
> it got the next trigger pulse. That way as the sequence is playing  
> you can manually select a step without screwing up the timing. From  
> my understanding of the circuit that would have added a bit of  
> complexity to the Moog design, but with a micro it will be easy.
>
> Can anyone confirm that the Moog circuit does perform the way I  
> assumed above, and does the method I plan to use make sense from an  
> operation point of view? I've just got a few pots and switches  
> hanging off my AVR development board at the moment so it's a bit  
> hard to tell!
>
> Regards,
> Stewart.
>
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