Voltage controlled arpeggiator (was Re: [sdiy] Design Process)

[Ian Fritz]

At 08:38 PM 2/15/2010, mark verbos wrote:

>I don't know if this is what you mean by "priority encoder," but you
>can run each output through an XOR gate with the previous one. That
>allows only the highest stage that's on to turn on. Sadly, it takes a
>4030 for each set of 4 outputs. They add up fast.

Ah, but there are also chips to do that.  CMOS 4532 for example. (Only 8 
levels, though.)

Ian