Well, here is a thought on how it might work with currently produced
products. some of these I do not have so there is some speculation
involved.
Take a MIDI to CV converter capable of taking say four notes on the keyboard
and producing 4 separate CV outs. Run each of those 4 CV outs directly to 4
separate VCOs. Use the CV output of a module like the upcoming Encore UEG
(with the looping feature to switch MOTM-700s to switch each VCO on and off.
The gate to start the whole thing could come from the first note down. I
may play with this some when my UEG arrives. However, I suspect I would
need the Expressionist as opposed to my Pro-2000 to really make it work
neat.
The keyboard would control the notes. The UEG would control the time. In
fact, I think the UEG will have many good uses.
Other crazy ideas?
Stooge Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: Tkacs, Ken <ken.tkacs@...>
To: <motm@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 7:30 PM
Subject: FW: [motm] I think I'm gonna arpeggiate
I love a good arpeggiator. I can't even begin to estimate the amount of
man-hours that were killed in the 80's by my Korg Mono/Poly arpeggiator.
But as a module... I'm not sure. To be as useful/fun as the Korg MP-4 unit,
it would need to be flexible and controllable. The Korg arpegiator was
"programmed" in real time by the scanned keyboard... how you would
reasonably pull that off with CVs is not clear.
Also, it may be that a mini-sequencer with CV or gate control of
up/down/up-down, for instance, might do the same job but really be more of a
flexible sequencer than an arpeggitor module.
In the end, there may be more "modular" ways of doing a similar job. I have
long been on a quest for a stable/flexible quantizer module. With that, you
could feed in CV sweeps or the output from an S&H and get some
arpeggiator-like effects. Sticking the lag between the S&H or an LFO and the
quantizer would allow you various VC methods for shaping the curve and
therefore the output of the quantizer, and so on.
The subject is worth discussing.
-----Original Message-----
From: sikorsky
To: motm@egroups.com
Sent: 01/02/2001 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: [motm] I think I'm gonna throw up
on topic comment: so no one liked the arpegiator module then..?