3-position toggle switch for trigger/mute/reset
12-position rotary encoder for semitones/chords
3-position toggle switch for transpositions
control for second parameter (i.e. filter)
control for third parameter (i.e. volume) or gate/step length
3-position toggle switch for audio/CV routing between 2 busses and individual input/ouput jacks
its not a bad choice ,good one…
I promised to jot down some additional info on the 8-Step so here it is; you’ll need to jump over to Muff’s in order to read it (not sure if the pictures will show up unless you have a logon there); It’s a great forum. But you’ll see of my observations of the product, the Gate-out mod that I competed earlier today, and some of what I’ll be tackling next.
The reason why I’m placing it into this thread and not in the various 8-step threads is simply because I view the 8-step as a full featured but low-cost sequencer; so those looking for sequencer information will inevitably find this thread.
http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=82632&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
I’ve read that through, thank you so much EMwhite 
Well, I think I’m gonna grab one of these babies before they are out of stock. One of the big stores in EU is already waiting its second batch, june 10th they said 
Revolution is a trip for sure - I am slowly figuring it out
Answering my own questions on the zero activity group list about it - I figured out writing copying transposing and mangling up patterns in Remix mode – but the “song” mode is what is puzzling me- at the moment, maybe drum machine SONGS work like this -stitching patterns together? I never figured them out either –
Meanwhile using two more traditional step sequencers Oberkorn and a Dark Time and love the heck out of both - but very different then either Ternori or Revolution - I wonder if people can use them with the same accuracy? Ie you can shift pitch but you have to use your ears to do it! 
Song mode is just a chaining of patterns on most drum machines. Revolution included. The manual .pdf is free on the fr site.
yep thanks ~ i also got TWO hardcopy copies with the instrument ~ one bound and one with a binder clip
PLUS i have the pdf in my iPAD and I have rtfmed all of them many MANY times — still slow-going
i think it is setting the loop point which is screwing me up at the moment and making it not behave the way i hope. will just have to keep plugging away i guess
more accustomed to making changes in real time live — but I would love to nail it down to drive the Taurus or the Minitaur and free my hands up for to play other sequencers and actual keyboard
Pittsburg Modular has a nice 8-step sequencer for $139.00 at Analouge Haven http://www.analoguehaven.com/pittsburghmodular/sequencer/ you’d still need a case/power supply: http://www.analoguehaven.com/pittsburghmodular/cell48/
The 119 has a 24 step mode. The real drawback to the 119 is the lack if individual trigger per step. The 960 can be expanded to 24 steps via additional modules. There is also a Club of the Knobs Trigger Sequencer that is awesome for controlling the 960. They are a killer addition to controlling a Voyager (or anything else for that matter.)
Korg SQ 10 ,
A & B outs with -5V to +5V ,working well with the Freqbox, freq cv in -5v to +5v
and Voyager CV in -5V to +5V
This is only partially correct … it doesn’t have a gate on/off/skip per step. It has a gate per row and global gate as well as a global on/off with a couple of modes. So yes, it works best with a trigger sequencer.
I’m all about hands-on when it comes to music. Rarely use the computer but my MachineDrum and MonoMachine instead along with my bass, guitar, foogers and soon also Voyager. But I don’t really get why the thing with analog sequencers. I don’t question it, I just don’t understand what it would do for me that I don’t already have with my MonoMachine (six track sequencer synth + six track midi track) and a Kenton Pro Solo (midi-to-cv concerter). Please enlighten me! 
Just a different way to do the same thing. I have some MIDI step sequencers that emulate an analog step sequencer quite well, and they have their advantages.(Sequence memory) But there are a few ways to setup an analog sequencer that would be difficult with MIDI unless the programer designed it in. With the analog and CV method there is a flexibility of assigning anything to anything you can imagine within reason.
For instance with most analog sequencers it is possible to drive the sequence at audio rates. The sequencer then becomes a sort of rough waveform generator, with the sequence steps shaping the waveform. MIDI does not go that fast.
Another example, I patched a Moog 1130 percussion controller so that every strike on the drum, advanced the sequencer. That was a very interesting way to use the step sequencer and Moog drum trigger together. Then I had a set of Taurus pedals to transpose the sequence. This would be difficult to setup in MIDI unless the program was designed to do just that. With CV it was just a matter of patching the drum V-trigger to the step input on the sequencer. Sequencer CV to the VCO pitch and the drum also triggering the envelopes. The drum has a CV out that corresponds to the velocity of the strike, I had patched into the filter. Hours of fun, and a very cool way to integrate percussion and step sequencer.
Many other fun ways to patch such a sequencer. Every key press could advance the sequencer. And patch that sequence CV into the filter, or a second oscillator pitch that is synced to oscillator following the keyboard. Or have the keyboard transpose the sequence while the keyboard trigger is patched to switch rows. So a keypress would not only transpose, it would change the squence playing. I guess that is the biggest part, by comming up with your own new ways to patch the sequencer into your setup. Imagination required!
Heres a video of that…one of the very few on youtube demonstrating the 1130:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVsTQDl5W7w
I made one. But it’s kind of crappy.
I used a CD4022BE chip. it just spits out the input voltage from a different lug with each trigger from the clock source. It works, but even if you have all the dials in the same spot, you get pretty different pitches.
You can sort of see it for a second, its the box nearest the camera in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0nehmFV8pY I’m not sure how everything is hooked up, but I’m pretty sure its sequencing the voyager and minitaur.
Just to add to what was mentioned above I would say a key difference is the separation of pitch and trigger/gate information. The Monomachine sequencer can do a similar thing but it is far less flexible in this regard.