I'd love to have a master clock, but only if it can do odd divisions.

Say, from 1/64th notes to 4- or more whole notes, with the obvious
1/4, 1/8, etc divisions as well as triplets and 1/3rd, 1/5th, etc
divisions.

All divisions both with gate (preferably with duty cycle control) and
trigger outputs.

Inverted outputs too.

Clock select: internal or external.

Both manual (pushbuttons) and gate inputs for Reset, Step (ext.Clk),
Start, Stop and Run.

Internal clock needs to run well into the audio range (something like
300bpm, or 240Hz).

Master clock needs to be Voltage Controlled (linear) !

Run mode (switch): Gate = clock runs when gate is high; Trig = clock
starts/stops on alternate pulses.

Throw in some Logic Gates, and we're nearly there...



I used to run & sync my whole (analog, non-midi) studio on a similar
home-built masterclock like this, erm, 25 years ago. Even put the main
clock output on audio-tape sometimes, so I could re-sync the clock
later, off tape. Morton Subotnick did similar things with his ghost
tapes...



cheers,

Guy

> > hallo mark,
> >
> > there are different things that i'm after, but an easy one to follow
> > is having several envelopes, one of which should fire off at every
> > quarter, one of which at every bar etc. after a reset/start they
> > should all fire off on the 1, and then keep going at their
> respective
> > intervals. quite the opposite happens with the a190, since the all
> the
> > gates start off with "off".
> >
> > to express it in binary terms, directly after a start i have
> 00000000
> > when what i need is 11111111.
> >
> > this is the reverse of the a190's behaviour. dieter, can this be
> > hacked very unlikely, i know, but if you don't ask you don't get :)
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > stu
>
> That's not a problem of the A-190 as it outputs only clock and start/
> stop
> but has no trigger/gate outputs but the device controlled by the
> A-190 !
>
> I know the problems you are talking about as I had many years ago a
> master
> clock unit with a lot of trigger and gate outputs., positive and
> negative
> edge triggered clock and reset inputs and many more. A bit similar
> to the
> A-160 and and A-161 but even with inverted and trigger outputs, and
> inverted
> clock/reset inputs. To emulate these functions several additional
> trigger
> inverters are required (A-165).
>
> If I understand your problem it could be solved by the A-161 and the
> A-186-1
> as the A-161 has a separate gate output for each step available. To
> solve
> the 000/111 problem simply use output #2 of the A-161 as the first
> gate. The
> outputs of the A-161 can be combined by the A-186-1.
>
> We could develop a master clock module (e.g. a copy of my old
> device) but
> I'm not sure if there are sufficient inquiries.
>
> Best wishes
> Dieter Doepfer