Hi list,

I've been thinking some more about new modules and I would like to
share my thoughts with you. This one is about creating loose, funky,
groovy, sloppy, wobbling, stumbling or even psychotic and mentally
disturbed grooves and patterns out of an incoming dead-straight
clock. You could even call it human feel :-))

The idea would be to have an external clock, have an internal clock
synchronise to its tempo, and then have the possibillity too:

- divide the clock into groups/grooves/patterns of probably 1 - 8
steps;
- add a certain amount of positive or negative delay (can I say this
:-) too each individual step of the groove;
- vary the overall gate length of all steps with vc for extra rhythmic
pumpification

This way you could (in theory) do crazy rhythmic things to your A-
100 system in real time while being locked to a master clock. You
would never get out of control because every move you make would
be related to your main beat at all times. Also it would be possible to
work with triplets etc. (swing) by adjusting the master clock before
you send it to the module, e.g. by using an A-163 or the v2 of the A-
151 (just have a '3' in there) or you could halve or double the
resolution of the clock or use an unusual amount of steps in your
pattern for different effects .

The typical delay-range for the individual steps would be somewhere
between +/- 5 and 200 ms, so in this aspect this idea would require
more precision than the A-162, which has a (+/- ) trigger delay of
up to 10 seconds, and which is not very precise in the 15 - 50 ms
range, where a lot of groove is to be found. But the range should
probably be even wider than 50 ms, so you could not just do
grooves, but also create really different rhythmic patterns.
(Theoretically speaking, if you feed such a pattern to a sequencer
pattern, I guess that would be 'pattern multiplication' :-)))

I guess the user interface could be something like a clock input,
output and reset, an input for vc gate length, 2 pots for vc gate
length, 8 pots for +/- delaying individual steps and a rotary switch
for the number of steps in the groove.

I'm no engineer, I only think about this from the functional point of
view, so I don't know how doable it is (e.g. the real time combining
of +/- delay and vc gate length) but I think a module like this could
be very usefull musically, allthough I'm not sure if I'm missing
anything obvious.

Greetings

Anton