Doepfer

Hi list,

I've been thinking some more about new modules and I would like to 
share my thoughts with you. This one is about creating loose, funky, 
groovy, sloppy, wobbling, stumbling or even psychotic and mentally 
disturbed grooves and patterns out of an incoming dead-straight 
clock. You could even call it human feel :-))
   
The idea would be to have an external clock, have an internal clock 
synchronise to its tempo, and then have the possibillity too:

- divide the clock into groups/grooves/patterns of probably 1 - 8 
steps; 
- add a certain amount of positive or negative delay (can I say this? 
:-) too each individual step of the groove;
- vary the overall gate length of all steps with vc for extra rhythmic 
pumpification

This way you could (in theory) do crazy rhythmic things to your A-
100 system in real time while being locked to a master clock. You 
would never get out of control because every move you make would 
be related to your main beat at all times. Also it would be possible to 
work with triplets etc. (swing) by adjusting the master clock before 
you send it to the module, e.g. by using an A-163 or the v2 of the A-
151 (just have a '3' in there) or you could halve or double the 
resolution of the clock or use an unusual amount of steps in your 
pattern for different effects .

The typical delay-range for the individual steps would be somewhere 
between +/- 5 and 200 ms, so in this aspect this idea would require 
more precision than the A-162, which has a (+/-?) trigger delay of 
up to 10 seconds, and which is not very precise in the 15 - 50 ms 
range, where a lot of groove is to be found. But the range should 
probably be even wider than 50 ms, so you could not just do 
grooves, but also create really different rhythmic patterns. 
(Theoretically speaking, if you feed such a pattern to a sequencer 
pattern, I guess that would be 'pattern multiplication'?? :-)))   

I guess the user interface could be something like a clock input, 
output and reset, an input for vc gate length, 2 pots for vc gate 
length, 8 pots for +/- delaying individual steps and a rotary switch 
for the number of steps in the groove.

I'm no engineer, I only think about this from the functional point of 
view, so I don't know how doable it is (e.g. the real time combining 
of +/- delay and vc gate length) but I think a module like this could 
be very usefull musically, allthough I'm not sure if I'm missing 
anything obvious. 

Greetings

Anton