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Responses inline:

Ioannis Kazlaris wrote:

> 1. Can you get a pulse wave by feeding a square one to a comparator? If
> so, how do I vary the pulse width and the depth of the modulation?

You can use a comparator to get a variable pulse output, but you would
want to feed it a sawtooth wave into the "-" input. From there, you may
turn the voltage control knob to manually change the duty cycle of the
pulse output, or you can feen a modulation source into the "+" input
(sine wave) to get a pulse width modulation.

> 2. Does the "sync" input in the NTO and PCO provide hard or soft
> synchronization? How do you get "hard" if "soft" is provided? If I feed
> a sharp transient to modulate the frequency of the oscillator, will that
> be enough? If it's a train of transients will that do the job?

This is a soft sync. There are a couple of posts in the archive (Yahoo)
on using an oscillator with a DSG as a hard sync, but no way for the
NTO/PCO.

> 3. What are the differences between a Sequencer and a Sequencer
> Programmer? (Other than obvious) Can I use the 4 outputs (A, B, C, D) of
> the 4-stage Sequencer Programmer sequentially? I mean: stages 1-4 output
> from A, then 5-8 from B, 9-12 from C, 13-16 from D and then loop the
> sequence? If this is the case, is there any need for an extra Sequencer
> (8x2) as suggested by Rex in the preconfigured Sequencer panel? I
> suppose you can clock them at different rates, but are two 4-stage
> sequencers better than one with 8 stages?

Two are always more interesting than one.

Scott