[sdiy] Percussion sequencer idea

[Dave Magnuson]

At 01:40 PM 10/2/01 -0700, you wrote:
>"I was planning to use (3) J/K flip-flops for divide by 3, or
>perhaps a decade counter..."
>
>I did not know you could do this as each FF will divide by two. Three
>FFs gives you a divide by eight. A more typical approach is the 4018.
>The data sheet for the MIDI-Sync chip on our web site shows a circuit
>using the 4018. More info is in Don Lancaster's "CMOS Cookbook" .
>
>http://www.blacet.com/MSdata.html
>http://www.blacet.com/books.html
>


Hi John,

I'll check into your method.  The (3) J/K flip flop method I mentioned is
shown on Scott Gravenhorst's Fatman site... it's a portion of the circuit
shown at:

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~chordman/enigma.html

I've never tried the circuit yet (or done a logic diagram, for that
matter)... but it looked like something to try out.

Dave Magnuson



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