> I thought the a156 quantizer could be used as an arpeggiator
> It's on my list of modules to buy because of this, does anyone own a
> a156 are they any good
>

i have one and i use it alot. haven't tried setting it up as an arpegiator but i
use it similarly w the 155, to quantize seq'd notes into scales. then i adjust the
range on the 155 to widen the range of notes, etc..flip the switches on the 156
to change chords, and so on.

also very useful w a178 theremin and a198 trautonium controller for accurate
pitching. (good to have a slew limiter in there too for applications such as
this.)

you could easily make an arpegiator w an attenuated lfo running into the 156,
then into oscillator, with note envelope controlled by a faster-running lfo (or
other gate source) which triggers an EG->VCA.

would be curious to see how one would set up a patch to work the same way
as a traditional arpegiator, so you play a chord on the keyboard and the notes
scale up and down accordingly while an lfo triggers an EG->VCA for note
envelope control. not sure how you'd patch the oscillators to get pitch to
behave in this traditional manner from the keyboard. seems like once a
keyboard enters the picture, the 156 would mainly function as a 'note
corrector' so you'd be limited to whatever notes the quantizer will allow,
regardless of note played on the keyboard. would probably need a
comparator or other logic feature in order to get it to play notes across the
range of a pitch LFO only when those values match those coming from the
keyboard. ( )

anyone

-psm

btw, joe..good call, this would be a no brainer if the 190's arp was
implimented. drag.