Doepfer

hi andrew, the only reason i know about is that i seen pictures of 
his studio in home recording or some usa magazine like that. his unit 
is one of the portable cases, i forget the model #. you could clearly 
see the MARF in the case. most of the modules in his were mostly from 
the last generation of production. i wish i could lay my hands on one 
of the portable units. i would sell a lot of my gear to finance it. i 
have played on both 100 and 200 buchla modulars. 

some of you might be wondering, why i want an SH-101 style sequencer  
in an A100 format to be linked from the touch keys. the answer is 
simply to emulate some of the functions of the Buchla 248 Marf. 
basically the Marf stores its information in the output sections of 
the Marf. so if you had an SH101 style sequencer you could come 
pretty close to the Buchla Marf output. of course it is impossible to 
do all the functions of the Marf.

the A100  sh101 style sequencer would have an input for clock , that 
would be normalled to the master clock of the touch keyboard, so that 
when you patch another source it disable the master clock and 
whatever source at the input to drive the sequencer. it could another 
clock or gate from the touch keys etc.  you would have the basic 
enter button, rest button, a legato button to tie notes and a slide 
button. then a pot switch to a clock divisor ratio, so you could have 
the sequence go 4 or 2 times as fast as the master clock,then you 
could go 3/4, 1/2, 1/4,or 1/8 as slow in sync to the master clock.  a 
switch pot to save 10 sequences with a save and load button. each 
sequence would have 128 steps so that you achieve 8 bars at a normal 
rate to the master clock from the touch keyboard, with the clock 
divisor ratio set 1 to 1. you could achieve 32nd notes and 4 bars 
with the divisor ratio set to 2 to 1. 64th notes and 2 bars at a 
ratio of 4 to 1 etc. the line that feeds the master clock from the 
touch keyboard would also send a reset signal , so that when you hit 
the start button, all the these sequencers would start in and on 
cue . the continue button would follow suit. the same line would send 
the pitch info from the touch keyboard to program the note value. to 
access and program them, you would have a pot or global shift key to 
access bank 1 or 2. then you would have 4 buttons with labels for 
seq. a,b,c,d on the top for bank 1 and e,f,g,h below these buttons 
for bank 2. or you could have an 8-way switch switch pot would cycle 
through each seq with an led to indentify which one to access. this 
would give you a total of 8 seq. patterns. now you can add as many of 
these modules up to a total of 8. you now have the choice. these are 
the type of features i would like to see implemented in the design of 
the touch keyboard, so you can have the option to add more if you 
like.

so there you have it,to have such a module available,you would be 
able to mimic some of the Marf functions. i hope some of you see the 
importance of such a module. please read the questions in the poll 
carefully and vote if you want see these to built. anyone with 
suggestions to this proposed module please write your ideas to the 
group and let's brainstorm to make it better. remember the more 
heads, the more ideas that can come foward.i have to tweak some of 
the fantasy modules, i will post these later today or tomorrow at the 
latest.cheers.

regards,
rm


 Doepfer_a100@y..., "andrewdalio" <bunnyman@s...> wrote:
> RE: danger's gear. I didn't know he used the Buchla; the insert pics
> on 
> Subliminal Sandwich (a 2 cd set featuring "electric people"), there
> are 
> a bunch of photos of him with a ton of Roland modular gear (100
> series? 
> - I can't remember the model numbers). There's also a little clip 
of 
> him in the film Modulations, where you can see some of his 
samplers, 
> mixers, and some ARP gear in the background. I'm guessing he's like
> the 
> rest of us and just uses all the gear he can!
> 
> -andrew bunny