hi andrew, the only reason i know about is that i seen pictures of
his studio in home recording or some usa magazine like that. his unit
is one of the portable cases, i forget the model #. you could clearly
see the MARF in the case. most of the modules in his were mostly from
the last generation of production. i wish i could lay my hands on one
of the portable units. i would sell a lot of my gear to finance it. i
have played on both 100 and 200 buchla modulars.

some of you might be wondering, why i want an SH-101 style sequencer
in an A100 format to be linked from the touch keys. the answer is
simply to emulate some of the functions of the Buchla 248 Marf.
basically the Marf stores its information in the output sections of
the Marf. so if you had an SH101 style sequencer you could come
pretty close to the Buchla Marf output. of course it is impossible to
do all the functions of the Marf.

the A100 sh101 style sequencer would have an input for clock , that
would be normalled to the master clock of the touch keyboard, so that
when you patch another source it disable the master clock and
whatever source at the input to drive the sequencer. it could another
clock or gate from the touch keys etc. you would have the basic
enter button, rest button, a legato button to tie notes and a slide
button. then a pot switch to a clock divisor ratio, so you could have
the sequence go 4 or 2 times as fast as the master clock,then you
could go 3/4, 1/2, 1/4,or 1/8 as slow in sync to the master clock. a
switch pot to save 10 sequences with a save and load button. each
sequence would have 128 steps so that you achieve 8 bars at a normal
rate to the master clock from the touch keyboard, with the clock
divisor ratio set 1 to 1. you could achieve 32nd notes and 4 bars
with the divisor ratio set to 2 to 1. 64th notes and 2 bars at a
ratio of 4 to 1 etc. the line that feeds the master clock from the
touch keyboard would also send a reset signal , so that when you hit
the start button, all the these sequencers would start in and on
cue . the continue button would follow suit. the same line would send
the pitch info from the touch keyboard to program the note value. to
access and program them, you would have a pot or global shift key to
access bank 1 or 2. then you would have 4 buttons with labels for
seq. a,b,c,d on the top for bank 1 and e,f,g,h below these buttons
for bank 2. or you could have an 8-way switch switch pot would cycle
through each seq with an led to indentify which one to access. this
would give you a total of 8 seq. patterns. now you can add as many of
these modules up to a total of 8. you now have the choice. these are
the type of features i would like to see implemented in the design of
the touch keyboard, so you can have the option to add more if you
like.

so there you have it,to have such a module available,you would be
able to mimic some of the Marf functions. i hope some of you see the
importance of such a module. please read the questions in the poll
carefully and vote if you want see these to built. anyone with
suggestions to this proposed module please write your ideas to the
group and let's brainstorm to make it better. remember the more
heads, the more ideas that can come foward.i have to tweak some of
the fantasy modules, i will post these later today or tomorrow at the
latest.cheers.

regards,
rm


Doepfer_a100@y..., "andrewdalio" <bunnyman@s...> wrote:

> RE: danger's gear. I didn't know he used the Buchla; the insert pics
> on
> Subliminal Sandwich (a 2 cd set featuring "electric people"), there
> are
> a bunch of photos of him with a ton of Roland modular gear (100
> series
> - I can't remember the model numbers). There's also a little clip

of

> him in the film Modulations, where you can see some of his

samplers,

> mixers, and some ARP gear in the background. I'm guessing he's like
> the
> rest of us and just uses all the gear he can!
>
> -andrew bunny