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i figure a 'traditional' arpeggiator plays
up/down/up-down with 1/2/3/(4) octave range.
(as opposed to imported folk melodies ;p )

the Akai ME20a isn't really an arpeggiator at
all, and i don't remember it accepting incoming
midi clock; it just did its own thing. nice tho'.

the Oberheim Cyclone is pretty sophisticated (too
much so for its own good), and can memorise rhythm
and note intervals etc. but you spend most of your
time with the manual next to you. exactly the opposite
of what is needed.

i think i ditched them both in favour of the atari-cubase
IPS (interactive phrase synthesizer), where you import
∗.mid files, and have lots of modes. a bit glitchy via
MROS, but ok for creating midi sequences. teh atari rocks...
(and i have been finding various arps and sequencers for it)

judging by eg: a novation arp, on a VA synth, the one on a
Juno-60 seems really 'bangin'', eg: bang on time, tight, very
dynamic feel to it; that is from memory, it was my first ex-
perience of an arpeggiator, and i don't get the same feeling
from newer ones(why?), including the ones with rhythm patterns.