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Subject: Re: [motm] New modules

From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
Date: 2008-02-04

> Wow...I am really excited. Finally a vc pulse divider
> and did I read CV recorder. I did not read intensively
> on this but will the 102 be able to do short audo
> samples as well? or just CV.
> Thanks

a) well, it is a very ∗simple∗ CV recorder

b) the memory is 16K (max) samples. So, if you are playing a 120BPM S&H
sequence (2Hz), that is 8192 seconds or ~2hrs :)

c) I suppose you could record audio up to ~250Hz if you sample at 1Khz
(there are no anti-aliasing filters per se in there, no output decimation,
either like on the Cloud Generator). The samples are 14-bit, so the
amplitude quantizing error would be quite good. I image the output would be
quite 'noisy', but possibly interesting.

d) something I hadn't really thought of: you could take any CV-generating
keyboard (like a SH-101) or even the output of a MIDI-CV, and record 16K
'notes' into it. Of course, you don't ∗have∗ to record all of the memory, I
could put a EOF marker in the One-Shot mode so that if you wanted to record
say 16 notes, and then Loop them, it could be done.

But again, the intent is a small and ∗simple∗ record/playback system. I
think it will be fun to record at 'X' sample rate, and play back at 'Y'
while playing around with the tap lengths.

Speaking to the taps: I think the best musical use is to have the knob be 0,
1, 2, 3..8, then have larger jumps. Having 1-8 will allow nice poly-rhythms
to be set up, especially if you use 2 of these.

Paul S.