Hi Joe,

> but as guidance to new A100 users it's bad advice

the Modular-Planet is not a guidance! It's only a collection of
A-100-patches. You can make a tour on the planet and hear all the
sounds. I think the Tips-collection is also only a collection.

> People who are new to modular synthesis

If you search for a guidance, take the best: Allen Strange! In german
language there are several books (also suitable for beginners):
Florian Anwander: Synthesizer, Hans Ulrich Humpert: Elektronische
Musik, André Ruschkowski: Elektronische Klänge und musikalische
Entdeckungen, Reinhard Schmitz: Analoge Klangsynthese
and so on...
Web-sites with guidance for beginners:
http://home.snafu.de/sicpaul/tpf_syn0.htm
http://www.analog-synth.de/emu/workshop/modsyn.htm
and so on...

> suggestions for improvising makeshift multiples

Why not

A-119-user's guide:
"These two sockets are simply linked as a "mini-multiple"."
http://www.doepfer.com/a100_man/a119_man.htm


A-165-user's guide:
"so it's possible to use these two inputs as a mini-multiple - using
one of them to send the original trigger to another module."
http://www.doepfer.com/a100_man/a165_man.htm

A-175-user's guide:
"you can use the second socket as a mini-multiple."
http://www.doepfer.com/a100_man/a175_man.htm

> A basic set of tools is important!
> Using high-value modules for mundane utility tasks

What is 'basic'
A few months ago I created a organ-sound-patch in additive manner.
Because I only own four VCOs (for the sine-waves), I took other
sources to that: LFOs with high frequencies, self-oscillation
filters, the sine-output from my frequency-counter, (the cry from
neighbor's baby) ...
What from this patch is a "mundane utility task" ;-)

Greetings

Josef