Doepfer

I just glanced briefly at the features for the a154 and it seems to me that
it sorta makes the a155 a bit off track so to speak. I seems to me that a
couple of triggerswitches and an a154 would work just as good. Any thoughts?


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From: <ringmod45@yahoo.com>
To: <Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 11:42 PM
Subject: [Doepfer_a100] a154 ideas


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> Hi Bakis and Mr.Doepfer,
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> 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.
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> --- 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.
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> if the A154 is is 2 x 8 mode, the toggle would behave like this,
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> Up position; stops the clock from sending a clock pulse to the A155
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> middle position; sends the clock pulse to the A155 without positional
> sync to the A155
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> 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.
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> 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
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