Yes, I see that, thanks for pointing it out. The random input appears
to allow programming one bit into the shift register (serial
programming). What I am hoping to achieve is programming any of the
bits (even all 16 at once) without having to manually set the
switches. The documentation refers to this as parallel programming.
After a second pass through the docs, I believe that what I'm
suggesting is that all 16 channels have the provision for a random
input, not just channel 1. Not sure if anybody but me would find this
useful.
Also, in my original email I was confusing "programming a new pattern
via the 16 switches" with "playing back the currently loaded pattern
via the 16 switches" which is wrong (the switches are for programming
a new pattern). Sorry about that, I should have read the manual twice
before posting (measure twice, cut once).
On 22-Sep-08, at 8:59 PM, Paul Lord wrote:
>
> Scott Juskiw <scott@...> wrote:
> One thing that I see as a limitation is that it appears to require
> manual switching of the 16 pattern switches in order to set a new
> pattern or to enable the 16 channels of the current pattern to be
> summed to the output. I don't know if anyone has brought this up
> before, but I think it would be more useful (for some crazy people
> like me) if the pattern switches could be changed via external
> voltage control.
>
> Keep reading the docs :) If I'm not mistaken, that's what the
> random, random gain, and reference input/knob section is for!
>
> Paul
> --
> Could very well be mistaken, but suspect not.
>