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Subject: Re: [motm] Re: Dr. T vs the uSeq

From: "Richard Brewster" <pugix@...>
Date: 2003-06-24

> Paul wrote:
>
> >Good thing the MOTM-600 uSeq can do stuff like this, and more!
> The 'WALK'function is VERY cool (it 'flips a coin' and randomly goes
> 1 step above or below the current position
> in the sequence).<
>
> Er....
>
> That sounds like a rather useless feature. I mean, what's the point?
>
> johnm (who otherwise finds the uSeq rather tempting...)

The point is to get away from strict determinism by introducing a
"controlled" random element. Not a feature usually associated with
sequencer, which traditionally is a very deterministic module. Hence, the
cool factor.

-Richard