Doepfer

MOTM 650 midi to CV for my modular arpeggiator,  i'll check that.
What's the smaller size MOTM case and power supply? I think it is the 5 unit row right?

Thanks for the useful info
ric

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, dancemachine <dancemachine@...> wrote:
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> i ended up going with a MOTM 650 midi to CV for my modular arpeggiator.
> was a bit of a pain cause i had to get a case and power supply but the midi
> to cv and arpeggiator functions in it seem to be superior to any other
> modular options at this time.
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> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:51 AM, zaum <zaum@...> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > > > Take a look at the Quantimator.
> > http://www.toppobrillo.com/quantimator.html It
> > > > can do chords and arpeggios.
> > > >
> >
> > > Hi Does anyone have the A156 dual quantizer?
> > > Can it makes arpeggios like juno 60 or better?
> >
> > The A156 does not have an arpeggiator, it's a only a pair of quantitizers.
> > The A-190-1 has MIDI going in. Since the MIDI can be polyphonic, software
> > can pull an arpeggiated mono CV from it. That's going on in the MIDI to CV
> > module though it doesn't have all the features some arpeggiators offer.
> >
> > I'm not convinced the Quantimator is actually an arpeggiator at all. I
> > don't have one so I don't know for sure but I think I'd call it a
> > Quantitized Analog Shift Register. The difference is how it's played. To me
> > you play chords into an arpeggiator, this seems to remember the current and
> > last 2 mono notes played. Correct? Not that it isn't cool but it's a new
> > hybrid twist, not a proper arpeggiator though the output might resemble one
> > to a degree.
> >
> > Traditionally an arpeggiator starts with a polyphonic keyboard and pulls a
> > clocked stream of notes from the polyphonic info. They were hardly ever on
> > modular systems because few started with a poly keyboard and then added the
> > circuitry for one (Roland's poly keyboard for the 100M modular was a vintage
> > exception). In other words it's not something traditionally in a modular
> > module, it's re-interpreting a scanned (poly) keyboard connected to it.
> >
> > An analog shift register stores the last monophonic note played in a new
> > register (location). It's like a S&H in that it grabs and holds a current
> > voltage value but more complicated in that it remembers a prior voltage too
> > and several ASRs can be chained to remember several prior voltages. As a new
> > voltage is grabbed the old ones shift outputs.
> >
> > As I said, maybe I don't have a quantimator, but I don't see how you could
> > get the same functionality without a polyphonic input . Though I guess you
> > could play something with single keys one at a time on a poly keyboard in
> > latch mode that are subsequently arpeggiated. I mention that because maybe
> > latch input arpeggiation isn't far functionally from this module's input,
> > but still, this scenario is still re-processing a poly keyboard and to
> > answer your question the input doesn't seem like it's similar to a Juno 60.
> >
> > Actually for many years I thought I was hearing arpeggiation on 1970s
> > recordings (I think the first commercial keyboard with an arpeggiator was
> > 1978). What it turns out I was hearing was a sequencer being transposed live
> > by keyboard CV. That technique was not the same as an arpeggiator either but
> > is worth keeping in mind if you don't have one, though in the age of MIDI to
> > CV a software arpeggiator is the easiest way to go imho.
> >
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