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by Jopy » Tue Feb 16, 2021 3:41 pm
The 0-ctrl in running mode isn't like a sequencer, it's a looping envelope generator/slew limiter, but with no attack control. It's maths (or mini slew, or what have you) in looping mode (the attenuator part is the strength row) with a very intricate patchable step-sequenced slope/duration (the time row) and then a CV control (pitch row) that's along for the ride, that can also output CV for the strength and duration.
Or at least it helps me to think about it that way. Please don't correct me if I'm wrong, I feel like I finally get the timing behavior... I was super confused about how to understand the clock in functionality (especially with a gate in) until I thought of it that way.
So the "clock" is a analogous to looping decay envelope/slew limiter with a per-step envelope duration.
--When the 0-ctrl clock is slower than an incoming clock, and you run the sequencer, it follows the beat no matter what you do with the time row, just like a looping envelope does when the trigger comes in faster than it can complete the cycle.
--When the speed of the 0-ctrl sequencer is faster than the incoming clock, though, the time row does change the duration of each step, but to varying degrees--the "cycle" resets when a new incoming clock pulse comes in. Again, also like a looping an envelope generator.
--So if the analogy holds, then the dynamic gate is really like an EOR? I guess.
--The time control input is like an attenuator for the time row fixed CV, the strength control input is like an attenuator for the strength row linear-exponential control (up past linear to AHR); it also affects the output voltage.
--Thinking of it that way, the dynamic gate isn't a "feature" of the sequencer per se, it's the heart of the system and the fact that it is a sequencer is more of a byproduct.
I'm sure this way of thinking isn't a new discovery to the world at large, but it was new to me.
