Analogue systems

Analogue Sequencers may look intimidating, but they are a snap 
to use.  A;; sequencers are. Trust me on this, I design them.

A. Sys's are excellent.  Yes, only 8 steps, but...they are nol bad at 
all.  The A. Sol Ober-whatever looks terrific, but I'm not sure they 
are made any longer -and- whie they bring the four preset inputs 
of the counter to the faceplate for external control of counting 
direction, it requires binary information to operate and there's 
nothing on either systems that generate four bit binary easily, so 
those inputs are more of a tease than anything else.  A matter of 
fact, the only company to my knowledge who has EVER released 
a four bit binary modular counter is Emu, about 100 years ago.

If you're looking at other options and can't swing a Milton (sorry 
for the shameless plug), look into Doepfer's.  The sequencer 
itself is more limited functionally than the A Sys model, but used 
in conjunction with the sequencer controller module that's 
coming soon, they become extremely versitile and powerful.

As a side note -  a trick I learned from Bob - you CAN get random 
sequences on an A Sys sequencer by deselecting ALL OF THE 
STAGES (skip all).  Every other step goes to step one, but used 
in conjunction with a sequential switch, this return to one can be 
removed easily.  So, used in this way, the sequnce runs like this:

Step 1 - Random Step (1 thru 8) - Step 1 - Random Step (1 - 8) 
and so on.

So all you do is set a trigger that's running at 2x speed, set up 
the random pattern I described, run the sequencer out through a 
sequential switch set to reset on 2, and take the output now from 
one of the two taps that give the RANDOM out and remove the 
'return to step 1' out.

btw - Big City Music has Analogue Systems' Sequencers in 
stock.

hope this helps,

Peter




--- In analogue_systems@yahoogroups.com, "madebygaybird" 
<madebygaybird@y...> wrote:
> Dear sir
> 
>   I am just order a RS 8000. And I also interest to buy a 
alnalogue 
> sequencer  with the RS 8000. Of course RS2000 is the best 
> combination. But the RS 2000 seems very difficult to use. And it 
is 
> not cheap for me. Any body had use the RS 2000? Is it difficult 
to 
> use. Is it useful. Actually I know nothing about the analogue 
> sequencer. And then I know that analogue solution had a 
Oberkorn. It 
> seems more feature than RS 2000. At least it had 16 steps 
and MIDI. 
> It it Good? Any had use it? Actually I had put the RS140 midi/cv 
> convector in my system. Is it necessary for use the analogue 
> sequencer or I can use the software midi sequencer to control 
the 
> System? 
> 
> Bird