--- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, frank death <maldoroar@...> wrote:
even set it up to play 'chords', and who knows, possibly even to quantize!
On the 222e are using an LCD to program a defined output behavior for each pad (which
can then be optionally be stored with a preset manager module for multiple configuration
sets). Besides CV and trigger/gate outputs there is a data bus which can internally send
note values along 4 oscillator channels plus a number of other data bus channels for other
kinds of data in addition to the physical outputs. Also for what it's worth you have a pair
of rings delivering 3D info but no step sequencer ability like on the TKB.
Now something you might or might not be saying which I don't know the answer to since I
don't have one or have seen the manual. I know 14 of the 27 of the touch surfaces return
a finger position on the pad value. I don't know if you could take a position value and
quantitize it to say chromatic steps internally let alone define those steps as something
other than 1.2 v/oct. Your friend might just be talking about what you can adjust an
individual pad to as the basic voltage value it outputs, and that you can definitely do via a
numeric value - so it's no problem individually defining touchplates with standard notes
values in say a 1v/oct scale. Because there are multiple outputs you can define several
actions to occur on touching each plate (chords). Now does it do anything like quantitize a
variable output? I don't know but suspect not since I've not heard of anyone doing that.
On the TKB you have 4 pots per touchplate. You can manually adjust 4 voltages which
could easily each control a separate VCO for a chord. It's not going to give you voltage
rounded to any scale. You are going to need to manually adjust the voltages like any
traditional CV step sequencer or get am optional quantitizer for each channel of VCO
control you want to control.
This question did get me thinking (since I don't actually have a TKB or a 222e for that
matter). What is the behavior of a TKB when pushing more than one touchplate at the
same time? Is it just the highest step priority?
>be programmed to different voltage increments (doesn't have to be 1.2v/octave)...You can
> Someone on the Buchla yahoo group just wrote that the 222e Input port/ touchplate can
even set it up to play 'chords', and who knows, possibly even to quantize!
> Is it possible to do something similar with the TKB?Definitely, though they both have very different interfaces.
>
On the 222e are using an LCD to program a defined output behavior for each pad (which
can then be optionally be stored with a preset manager module for multiple configuration
sets). Besides CV and trigger/gate outputs there is a data bus which can internally send
note values along 4 oscillator channels plus a number of other data bus channels for other
kinds of data in addition to the physical outputs. Also for what it's worth you have a pair
of rings delivering 3D info but no step sequencer ability like on the TKB.
Now something you might or might not be saying which I don't know the answer to since I
don't have one or have seen the manual. I know 14 of the 27 of the touch surfaces return
a finger position on the pad value. I don't know if you could take a position value and
quantitize it to say chromatic steps internally let alone define those steps as something
other than 1.2 v/oct. Your friend might just be talking about what you can adjust an
individual pad to as the basic voltage value it outputs, and that you can definitely do via a
numeric value - so it's no problem individually defining touchplates with standard notes
values in say a 1v/oct scale. Because there are multiple outputs you can define several
actions to occur on touching each plate (chords). Now does it do anything like quantitize a
variable output? I don't know but suspect not since I've not heard of anyone doing that.
On the TKB you have 4 pots per touchplate. You can manually adjust 4 voltages which
could easily each control a separate VCO for a chord. It's not going to give you voltage
rounded to any scale. You are going to need to manually adjust the voltages like any
traditional CV step sequencer or get am optional quantitizer for each channel of VCO
control you want to control.
This question did get me thinking (since I don't actually have a TKB or a 222e for that
matter). What is the behavior of a TKB when pushing more than one touchplate at the
same time? Is it just the highest step priority?