I fully agree! The octave select switches are indispensable
for "feeling out" which register a sequence should be playing in. I
wish my other modular system had these as well...

Richard.

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , "selfoscillate"
<synaptic_music@y...> wrote:

>
> hello list,
>
> after all that chat about vco's, there is one thing i
> really cannot understand.
>
> the doepfer vco's (a110 and a111) have those rotary octave
> switches and i find them very handy, because it keeps you
> from tuning the vco again if you only want to transpose
> the vco for two or three octaves in order to try something out.
> but doepfer seems to be the only manufacturer who cares
> about this feature. on the other vco's in my system
> (analogue systems, blacet) there is no such switch
> and i wonder why.
>
> am i the only one who finds these octave switches useful
> or would you say that it is a feature which is not that important
> i know that it is no "must-have" feature for me, but it is
> a "very nice to have" feature imho.
>
> best wishes
>
> ingo