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Subject: run/skip/rest(?)

From: norman fay <NFAY@...>
Date: 2001-01-29

In message <000d01c089f7$0206c760$023f240a@...>, Paul Schreiber
<synth1@...> writes

(of sequencer switch suggestion)

>That's $74 worth of switches!!
>
>Paul S.
>
IMO run/skip/rest switches for each stage is THEE essential feature on
an analogue sequencer. To explain, yr sequencer is laid out thusly:

row 1 O O O O O O O O

row 2 O O O O O O O O

switch I I I I I I I I

right? (O represents knob, I represents 3-position switch (like on for
example motm410 for lfo selection)

when the stage's switch is in the middle, the stage runs as normal,
switch it one way, and you get a rest, IE the sequencer doesn't output a
trigger, switch it the other way, and the sequencer skips to the next
stage.

doing it this way means you only use 8 switches = $37. Well worth it,
in fact, I'd put this over an internal clock in terms of importance. I
believe the Moog modular sequencer did this, but many others, even
including serge's fancy sequencers don't implement it, yet I believe
it's not too difficult to implement.

You can hear what can be done with thios feature on T. Dream's "rubicon"
lp. It's a good 'un!

that's my opinion, anyway, for those of you who give a ∗∗∗∗ ;)

best etc
--
norman fay