
Using a Keyboard or Sequencer
Instead of using Channel B to set the tempo, you could use an external CV/Gate keyboard or
sequencer. Turn off
Cycle
and patch the gate output of the keyboard or sequencer into Channel B’s
Trig
jack. Whenever you fire a gate by pressing a key, Channel B will fire an envelope, and also trigger
Channel A. The tempo at which you play the keyboard or sequencer now determines the tempo of each
channel’s notes.
Keeping Channel A’s
Trig
switch at
AR
, try Channel B’s
Trig
switch in all three positions as you play
notes on the keyboard or sequencer. Play with the duration of key-presses (or pulse width of sequencer
step outputs), and see the effect this has on the sound in each
Trig
position. When
Trig
is set to
Cycle,
engage and dis-engage the
Cycle
button and note the effect this has when holding a key down.
If you’re using a VCO as a sound source and you also want to control the pitch of the notes with the
keyboard, patch the keyboard CV output to the pitch CV (1V/oct) input on the VCO.
Notice that when you fire a gate, Channel B will play first, and then Channel A. If you want them both to
start at the same time, you could unpatch the cable from
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to Channel A’s
Trig
jack, and instead use
a splitter or mult to patch the keyboard’s gate output into both Channel’s
Trig
jack.
Adding Chaos
You can create some inter-related pattens by patching Channel A’s
EOR
jack into Channel B’s
Trigger
jack. Re-patch
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to Channel A’s
Trigger
jack if you had removed it to use a keyboard. Turn off both
Cycle
buttons. Now both channels trigger each other. For some extra chaos, patch the
OR
jack to one
of the
Time
CV jacks. Press one of the
Cycle
buttons to start the chain of events, and play with the
sliders, the
Rise/Fall
CV knobs, and the
Level
and
Offset
knobs until you find sweet spots where
random patterns emerge. You can also try adjusting the shape of either channel or flipping the
Trig
switch to different settings for more randomness.
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