Doepfer

Hi Bakis and Mr.Doepfer, 

Since your are planning new features and it looks like the A154 will 
be redesigned. I would like to remind you of this feature i wrote 
about in a prior post.


--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "ps_minor <pscottm@h...>" 
<pscottm@h...> wrote:
> yes, what RM said. now that clock options are mentioned, why 
> not both? i imagine the 154 will find itself running along side 
> pairs of 155s for many users, me for one. so maximum flexibility 
> w two 155s will hopefully be well researched. 
> 
> an on/off toggle switch w momentary sync position for each 155 
> would be very useful. be nice to hit the brakes on one 155, or 
> allow one to step out of order while the other runs in order, with 
> the ability to resync. 

I was thinking some more about the resync feature, here's an new idea.

if the A154 is is 2 x 8 mode, the toggle would behave like this,

Up position; stops the clock from sending a clock pulse to the A155

middle position; sends the clock pulse to the A155 without positional 
sync to the A155

Momentary bottom position; you hold the toggle down, the A154 waits 
until the last step, i.e. the 8th step comes around from the other 
A155 or from its own counter and unlatches the momentary switch and 
syncs to the 1st step. so if you want to throw the sync off you just 
throw the toggle up to the off for however long you need to offset 
the from the other A155 and back to the middle position to send the 
clock pulse back in.

now when you have both of the A155's in 2 x 8 mode the clock pulse 
would need a counter for this function alone.

once you go to 1 x16 mode the togggle switch become inactive or you 
could use them for another function like a first step toggle and a 
last step toggle, just as you would on the MAQ16/3. now this would be 
mucho cool. this will definitely bring the A154 & A155 combo to new 
analogue sequencing heights. these are very strong sync features that 
would add greater interactivity to the A155's. 

What do you think? Should we do a poll about the sync options?

RM