My apologies to John and others for this late reply, but I've been
out of pocket for the last week. Such a good thing I wasn't around
to answer quickly, though, as I see the original question spun off
an interesting flip-flop thread, not to mention the re-emergence of
Bob Hearn (welcome back, and keep the great contributions coming!)
I won't re-hash his and others' solutions but will add a couple bits
based on my own experience. I have used the NCOM(PDIV)-USG solution
posted by James as well as the square wave approach Bob suggests.
While James calls his method less "elegant," I have used this with
good results when triggering sequences from external clock sources,
including midi-cv devices, for which Bob's technique may not work.
As far as I can tell, the critical issue is the pulse width of the
external trigger/gate.
I don't have a VC Clock and neither do I typically use my NTO to
trigger sequences, so my experience with Bob's approach has been
limited to DTGs as clock source. However, I discovered that using
*different* settings for the rise and fall times can yield some
interesting syncopated results, especially when using non-binary
sequence lengths. So while a square wave is ideal for producing
evenly-timed A1/B1/A2/B2/etc sequences, you might find the lack of
perfect symmetry more musically pleasing.
Along these same lines, try using the NCOM/PDIV in James' patch at
settings other than exact doubles (such as /7 with an SQP4) to get
nice sequence permutations that eventually cycle.
Enjoy,
Chris
out of pocket for the last week. Such a good thing I wasn't around
to answer quickly, though, as I see the original question spun off
an interesting flip-flop thread, not to mention the re-emergence of
Bob Hearn (welcome back, and keep the great contributions coming!)
I won't re-hash his and others' solutions but will add a couple bits
based on my own experience. I have used the NCOM(PDIV)-USG solution
posted by James as well as the square wave approach Bob suggests.
While James calls his method less "elegant," I have used this with
good results when triggering sequences from external clock sources,
including midi-cv devices, for which Bob's technique may not work.
As far as I can tell, the critical issue is the pulse width of the
external trigger/gate.
I don't have a VC Clock and neither do I typically use my NTO to
trigger sequences, so my experience with Bob's approach has been
limited to DTGs as clock source. However, I discovered that using
*different* settings for the rise and fall times can yield some
interesting syncopated results, especially when using non-binary
sequence lengths. So while a square wave is ideal for producing
evenly-timed A1/B1/A2/B2/etc sequences, you might find the lack of
perfect symmetry more musically pleasing.
Along these same lines, try using the NCOM/PDIV in James' patch at
settings other than exact doubles (such as /7 with an SQP4) to get
nice sequence permutations that eventually cycle.
Enjoy,
Chris