Suggestion for the next OS update

I third or forth the request for an arpeggiator.

That would make me smile alot.

But, hmm, if you’re going to make an arpeggiator, please make it a bit more intuitive than the “press this and that button for up, down arp, and that and this button for down, down arp” feature that was added to the Evolver Keyboards…
-I think that arps are rather useless anyhow, but when its like that it’s almost completely useless! :smiling_imp:

A step sequencer could be setup with the row of buttons that make up 8 notes or so.
The EG section would be ideal.

Perhaps you could store, per patch, a simple sequence of 8 notes, set to any pitch
or off. You could create the sequence by selecting the buttons in the EG module
and then selecting a note on the keyboard (or a rest). The sequence would trigger
back either just from clock and then running from the memory and/or triggered
from the keyboard so it only runs when a note is depressed. In addition,
any key pressed would play back the sequence in that key!

Now that would be cool. Whether there is enough memory onboard to do that,
is anyone’s guess. An aftermarket firmware and memory upgrade would work here.
A synth like the OSCar has a similar ability already, but it was made to do it.

But not everyone wants an Oberheim Cyclone built into their phatty. I know I do,
but how much can be done before it has to have some physical upgrades done?


rachel

How about this, instead of an built-in arpeggiator in the LP:

Moog develops an external arpeggiator box that can run any midi synthesizer through midi or cv/gate.

There are at least a few external arp boxes out there already.

Can you elaborate, I would like to find one

Most of them aren’t very good except for the Cyclone and none of them are made any more.

An Arp/Step sequencer in the same form factor as the LP would be a great idea.
It could then have more features and memory and not look out of place alongside
other Moog products.


rachel

It could also work on different midi channels at the same time, making it possible to sync arpeggio on several synths … :smiley:

Alright, I’m not that into arpeggiators, so I only know that I’ve read about a couple of external ones, e.g. Waldorf Gecko, plus MAM and Oberheim “something”…
And then there are a bunch of hardware step sequencers as well…

But perhaps there’s a niche here then if the arps that are available aren’t that good. A Moogerfooger arp/stepseq? :slight_smile:

midi clocked LFO
Osc2 fine tune (press osc2 freq button twice toggles between coarse and fine tune)
when osc2 is selected as mod source make “pitch” destination only osc1
Bipolar Mod amount like env mod

That is a pretty cool idea, i mean i don’t have a very hard time with the coarse but it would be neat to have a fine adjustment…

A cool way to tell if you were in “OSC2 Fine Tune Freq” mode would be to have the LED under the button flash at a rate which = OSC1-OSC2.
This would make it easy to tell if they were almost in sync because the OSC2 LED would be flashing slower and slower

neat-O

I’m at work now and can’t try, but isn’t there a fine tuning available in the software handling (“Fine adjustment”, or something)?

you speaking about the “Display Parameter” mode where you can see the actual value in stored bit form?

I doubt you could have a fine tune with RAC, because undoubtedly it would need a new connection that would have the correct resistance to the CV for using the pot as a fine tuner. I’m sure they could do a fine tuner with Midi data though.

Go to the Master Menu
scroll to the Precision Mode screen
press the Osc2 Frequency button
observe that the LCD now displays “Osc2 Frequency” and the current numeric value of the parameter
CURSOR under the number on the LCD
use the VALUE knob to fine-tune, a single tiny increment at a time
Push + turn the VALUE knob to get gross adjustment, or use the actual Oscillator knob – then zero in on exactly the frequency you want with the VALUE knob.

Cool idea about the flashing frequency-difference indicator… I don’t think it could implemented very easily with the existing hardware though.

keep the ideas flowing! This is great. :sunglasses:

oops…you are right…that wouldn’t work with the current hardware…
I forgot aboot RAC…doh!

Why not entering into precision mode when simultaneously pressing OSC2FREQ and acting on waveform pot ? Those kind of shortcut avoid long menu navigation.

Another vote for arpeggiator and MIDI clocked LFO’s.

I would also like to see a duophonic mode, as seen on some other “mono” synths, i.e. the pitch of the first oscillator is tracked by the first keypress, while the second is tracked by the second key.

A drone mode, i.e. the ability to have the Amp envelope wide open without pressing a key would be useful for external processing.

One more vote for an arpeggiator (with a latch function and midi sync)! :slight_smile:

I’m with Array on this one.