Doepfer

> I thought the a156 quantizer could be used as an arpeggiator?
> It's on my list of modules to buy because of this, does anyone own a 
> a156? are they any good?
> 

i have one and i use it alot.  haven't tried setting it up as an arpegiator  but i 
use it similarly w the 155, to quantize seq'd notes into scales.  then i adjust the 
range on the 155 to widen the range of notes, etc..flip the switches on the 156 
to change chords, and so on.

also very useful w a178 theremin and a198 trautonium controller for accurate 
pitching.  (good to have a slew limiter in there too for applications such as 
this.)

you could easily make an arpegiator w an attenuated lfo running into the 156, 
then into oscillator, with note envelope controlled by a faster-running lfo (or 
other gate source) which triggers an EG->VCA.

would be curious to see how one would set up a patch to work the same way 
as a traditional arpegiator, so you play a chord on the keyboard and the notes 
scale up and down accordingly while an lfo triggers an EG->VCA for note 
envelope control.    not sure how you'd patch the oscillators to get pitch to 
behave in this traditional manner from the keyboard.   seems like once a 
keyboard enters the picture, the 156 would mainly function as a 'note 
corrector' so you'd be limited to whatever notes the quantizer will allow, 
regardless of note played on the keyboard.   would probably need a 
comparator or other logic feature in order to get it to play notes across the 
range of a pitch LFO only when those values match those coming from the 
keyboard.  (??)

anyone?? 

-psm

btw, joe..good call, this would be a no brainer if the 190's arp was 
implimented.   drag.