[sdiy] Random trigger delay?

[Peter Grenader]

on 5/25/02 5:54 AM, mark verbos at a0284520 at addcom.de wrote:

> I have been thinking baout this in the last week actually. i was
> imagining a sequencer that allowed each step to be nudged earlier or
> later with a knob. Then you could build up a "groove" for that measure.


Encore's Universal Event Generator kind of does this.  Can't nudge back per
say, but you do have control of time for each step.  You can do this using a
standard seq as you know (one bank controlling the pacing clock), but that
Encore did here sounds a lot like the Arb Func Generator.  Problem is, the
UEG doesn't have seperate pulse outs per step, but he says he's fixing that
soon.

If you go the route you're talking about, instead of a rotary pot per step,
think about the most underated chip in electronic music - a 3914 - you could
have ten positions per step then and use a pot to drive it (or external
voltage for that matter) and not a oh-so-Moog rotary switch.  Plus, if you
drove all of the 3914's off the same reference voltage (all the steps), then
you could scale the amount of time veriation to your liking and not be stuck
with unchangable musical intervals of time.  You could do any span you
wished - from turning whole notes into 1/4's to 'humanizing' sequences.