Hi,

talking about new modules: Long time ago I built a very simple trigger
sequencer for the Formant system of a friend. It consisted only of four
rows of 16 switches four outputs and a clock in and a reset input. The
clock counted through the switches. If a switch was on, a gate signal
appeared at the corresponding output.
As clock signal I used the Roland DIN-Sync. The clock was divided to 16th
notes. The gate length was derived from the clock.

I thought about to revive this idea again, and wanted to suggest this to
Dieter Doepfer. There are now two versions, I am thinking about
interesting:

Version 1.)
- Very simple, based on simple logic chips, or a Basic Stamp or
something like this.
- not programmable,
- no MIDI,
- very costs concious. It should not cost more than 100 EUR.
(already the mechanical switches are not the cheapest ones...)
- Again with mechanical switches as described
- An additional second row of three position switches could be
used to switch between long, short gates and continous notes.
- I'd like to have somthing like a swing function: the off-notes
should be delayed a littlebit. But this might be a littlebit to much
for a not too expensive module


Version 2.)
- more sophisticated, based on a uP; kind of a small mans Schaltwerk,
lets call it "Schaltbox"
- programmable
- optional with MIDI
- could cost up to 250 EUR
- It would have rows of 16 push buttons and LEDs,
one row for the steps, one row for the functions
additionally eight pushbuttons/LEDs for programming/start/stop/shift/...
(imagine the case like a pocketdial) and eight gate-outs (optional MIDI)
- It could contain 127 patterns of 8 tracks
- thinkable features per track depend on programming amount / or what can
be taken over from the Schaltwerk-OS
- MIDI-Clock, load/save .... [add uncountable possibilities of your choice]


The big advantage of the version 2 would be that a lot of the hardware
parts was already developped for the Schaltwerk (pcb with eight Pushbuttons
and eight LEDs, pcb with eight sockets). The same is assumingly valid for
the software.

Version 1 would have a "look and feel" which is much more hardware-like.

Version 2 would be a very new kind of module to the A-100, but it could be
produced as a A-100 module on one side and as standalone box on the other
side.


Opinions


Florian
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