Well, Guy, I for one am glad you did chime in!
Numerology sounds like a neat package. Naturally, the wife and I are
pretty much married to PC since she finished her dissertation on our
old Powerbook. She bought that baby in '91.
Still, the cost factor doesn't sound too terrible. I'm sure I'd get a
lot of use out of a Powerbook aside from the sequencer. Numerology
would be a nice addition to my 16-step Ray Wilson seq, Encore UEG and
the modified CGS Gate seq. Does the Numerology package allow for
clock inputs?
On my way to the Five12 website...
Chub
--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Suit & Tie Guy <erwill@...> wrote:
>
> On Jun 3, 2007, at 8:02 PM, Stephen Drake wrote:
> > I don't know of anything that's anything close to the milton, unless
> > you go into the realm of software sequencers - numerology is pretty
> > nice.
>
> Numerology happened because Jim Coker (Mr Five12 Dot Com) and i were
> outgrowing the arpeggiators in our Z1s and ER-1s. we wanted to make
> the leap into modular-land, and started investigating sequencing.
>
> he asked me, and this was now five years ago (we should throw a
> party) ... around this time of year, "is it possible for me to
> modulate the number of steps in a sequence in an analogue sequencer
> with a voltage?" and i racked my brain thinking about what was out
> there and said "no. not that i'm aware of." he said "okay well then
> i'm going to write my own MIDI sequencer." a few months later i
> recorded a track with it an a bit after that i started gigging with
> it. even early on it never screwed me at a gig, but the Apple Store
> did screw my Pismo before one once .... that was a very ambient show.
>
> Numerology is a software sequencer, but it is also the only thing
> that makes me want to take a computer to a gig. i've used it
> alongside a TR-909 and other drum machines, it plays nice with other
> sequencers. being able to edit _anything_ without stopping the
> sequencer is another positive attribute.
>
> it's also no replacement for a 960 or a Milton or whatever other kind
> of analogue uberseq you're into. even though aspects of Numerology
> (step skipping) are there specifically because i had no 960 (or in
> the case of Gate Divide, because i have no Projekt Elektronik 960
> Assist Units), it really is it's own unique "thing" that allows you
> to explore the paradigm of analogue sequencing, abstracting it into
> modules in a way that is just not possible without infinite money and
> privately-engaged hardware engineers.
>
> i realise this may be redundant as a latecomer to the thread, but i
> just wanted to chime in about Numerology in the context of a
> discussion of hardware sequencers. i _love_ analogue hardware, i love
> analogue sequencers, but everything has its place and IMHO having
> both is really probably quite incredibly synergistic.
> ---
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