200e

ok I try again: cray's two questions on the 256e: is it like the 210e?
is it like the 281e's OR section?

I personally feel it's more like the OR section than the 210e (though
I say clearly: it really is a personal question. a personable question
!). Set up your 281e like how I described earlier: A and B sections
triggered together and having about the same total envelope time but
doing divergent things during time. the OR section will do some of the
things a 256e subsection would do given an input of the same duration.
We could imagine the similarity is that in both situations the time
stays about the same globaly but in a more localized view the time is
getting warped. the 256e is basically like 4 of those with 2 input vc
cv crossfaders in front of each section. So besides the crossfaders
there's this whole other bending thing happening.

I note here: the time-bending/flopping/flipping is a perceived effect
distinct from user-manual texts about what's going on. and even
divergent from the front panel markings. Someone hung up on what they
think they know might say: "there's no temporal component to the
256e's behavior; time needn't enter into it's description." or even
"oughtn't", and as proof read me the front panel legend.
But I know how to read. I also know how to hear, and of the two, I
like the second. not that reading and hearing should stand for degrees
of rigidity, but perhaps you know what I'm getting at

Distinct from the OR section, in the 256e each subsection starts with
one input to make the warping things, not two like the OR.

it's the warping that's particular to the 256e-- the crossfader part
of the 256e's behavior cray's right in comparing to any old mixer in a
general way. BUT again the time attitude is distinct: in a static
situation where we're just aiming to get two control signals both
effecting some parameter in a particular fixed proportion it doesn't
really matter much if we use a 256e or a 210e because we usually have
a multiplier at the final parameter input.

In a dynamic situation (time enters) we notice immediately the
difference and to mitigate the difference takes a bit of patching (or
several coordinated hands: ask Neil Young's tech!). The 256e CAN do a
210e-type mix of 2 inputs, but that's just one of many behaviors that
all feel about the same to it

I won't even ask if I'm helping. just make the text pile and let it be
searched. I put characters in order.