MOTM

Hello all, 

For a relative newcomer like myself to the modular world of synths, could some one 
describe to me in "simple mans language", what exactly is a quantizer in this sense?
Tried wikipedia, but all I get are descriptions on audio and video quantizing, which is not 
quite what the quantizer described here is, or is it?
 I can't somehow figure out what is ment with the below concept, and what does it mean 
musically?

Thank you :-)

Koos


--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...> wrote:
>
> A "fallout" of designing the expansion module for the Cloud Generator is a 
> nice 4ch (quad) quantizer in a 2U wide panel.
> 
> The UI is a 16ch x 2 line LCD with 4 rotary encoders. These select the scale 
> for each channel. LCD displays the scale name. For a relatively small price, 
> I can add a USB port to allow downloading of your own scales (as long as I 
> have people willing to write the host app).
> 
> I could aso have 4 pots for transposing the scale (say in 1 semitone steps).
> 
> And, there could be a "cascaded S&H mode" where there is a clock (int or 
> ext) to sample input #1, next pulse #1 is copied to #2, etc ("analog shift 
> register"). Maybe that UI is a 3-position toggle with:
> 
> QUANTIZE
> SH NORM
> SH SHIFT
> 
> Normal is 4 independent S&H channels (sharing the common clock).
> 
> I suppose one could go "nuts" and make a super-PSIM whiz-bang but maybe that 
> is later down the road. I want something with less than 1 man-year of SW 
> development :)
> 
> So, show me you panel mockups/feature list. The LCD is 80mm lond and 35mm 
> wide. There are 2 encoders on the top and 2 on the bottom.
> 
> Paul S.
>