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mritenburg wrote:
> Advanced control structure: VC Switch(es), Shift Register, Counters, 
> Logic.

I'll second this comment.  While these things are available in the 300
series with clever patching, they consume modules best used elsewhere.

Actually, I'll add a request to demonstrate: I'd really like to see a
comprenensive clock/gate/trigger mangler. You can use the Envelator as a
pulse divider, or as a gate delay, or as a burst generator, but you lose
an env in the process.  You can use a Woggle out -> VCO pulsewidth ->
Envelator in AR mode to generate random variable gate/sustain length
envelopes, but now you've used *three* modules to get there (I'm sure
there is an easier way, but that's what came to mind).

So pulling some or all of these features into one dedicated module in the
classic multi-function 300 series design would be tremendous.  Here's one
idle notion:

* A master clock knob and output
* Two pulse multiplication ("solving the triplets problem") knobs and
jacks, with selector knob ranging from *2 integer-wise out to maybe *15? 
Me, I'd set these knobs to *3 and *6 and be done with it.  Maybe it's me,
but triplets are *hard*.
* Four pulse division knobs and output jacks, selector knob range from /2,
/3, /4 etc. integer-wise out to maybe /32.  That's 7 knobs and 7 jacks so
far.
* A Logic circuit to combine the basic pulses; a knob that selects
AND/OR/NOR, 2 inputs, 1 output (so that's 3 more jacks, we're up to 10
jacks and 8 knobs now).
* A scanner or seq switch, to mix some of those clocks into one stream and
select via clock/sequantizer/S+H.  Say 3 source and one clock/position
inputs, then one output.  That's 13 jacks total, and let's add a knob for
either manual select (scanner) or a threshold knob for the s.switch clock
in so you could feed it noise and adjust how randomly it advances.  I
think a scanner is the best choice here but I've been wrong before.
* An output that just feeds variable length gates to the Envelator via
some magic :) Let's use the last knob here to adjust the maximum gate
time.  14 jacks total now.
* A multiple, normalized to the master clock.  18 jacks. 
* Hm, if you use the two "could be a switch, could be an output" locations
for the master out and the variable gate out, you've got 4 more jacks. 
I'd say either a unity mixer or another multiple :)

I'm sure there is a better way to do this, or a better collection of
functions, and I'm also sure Grant can find it.  For comparison, you can
get most of these functions in Frac format now (Thanks Michael!), but they
will consume a row or more.  It would take a design of *surpassing
elegance and perspicacity* to fit them all into one 300 series module ;-)

peace,
Paul