Analogue-sequencer

> I would love it if there were more
> possibilties or modes that I could use on the fly. I know
> that I will get into a lot more ways of randomizing patterns
> I get to grips with the auxes - but I wonder if there are
> other easy to use randomising algorhythms that could be
> added - moving around the pattern jumping two and then three
> steps and then four steps each time, stepping forwards and
> backwards in smaller increments, different ways of changing
> direction - 50% randomisation???

More complex levels of randomness can start to sound just as random as pure
random, so they don't become so much use.
Maybe a 'set next step' event could be useful - then you could use
randomisation and masking of next step events to create some additional
'directions'.
 
> And who the heck is Brown anyway?

Robert Brown was a biologist who first described the stochastic motion of
smaller particles within pollen grains suspended in a liquid.
So there ;-)

> and why are accumulators called accumulators? - I don't
> quite get it...

Because they accumulate.
'abs' events force the accumulators to a particular level, but their primary
use is with 'rel' events which add or subtract from the persisting value,
which is then added to the value on each step.
The principle register in a microprocessor is often called the accumulator,
and is used for sequential calculation of values.
It is also an archaic term for a battery, and has connotations of storing
power.

Best regards,
Colin Fraser
Sequentix Music Systems Ltd
http://www.sequentix.com