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Saving to Flash
Mimetic Sequent’s patterns are saved to flash. To reduce wear and tear on
flash—as it has a finite number of uses—this only occurs when
- randomization is turned off (if the random knob is fully CCW)
- recording is completed, either when short mode completes or when the
record switch is manually disabled
Because patterns are saved to flash memory, power cycling will not erase
them; take your patterns wherever you want.
Noise Engineering
Mimetic Sequent
6HP CV randomizer and recorder
Mimetic Sequent was a problem child from the very start. The very first
prototype was a 6HP ribbon controller/recorder that happened to have
randomization built in. The randomization ended up being more fun than
the ribbon controller and was dropped after the first build. We had a
continual stream of last-second problems that caused us to punt on
manufacturing many times.
One module that the second prototype was often compared to was the
Turing Machine and it pretty quickly became a goal to make a more
musical, more jammable, and smaller turing machine. The crux to
achieving this was the Musically Random algorithm documented in the
Less Random selection.
More so than any other module I have worked on the design was guided by
our many testers. There were 20 hardware revisions and endless
suggestions from our friends in the three years Mimetic Sequent has been
in development.
Design Notes
