Bloody hell, the last thing I wanted to do was start a topic which had everyone saying "it's a pointless distinction! just make music!" I can get enough of that over at muffwigglers. It's my instrument to make my music through my set of informed decisions.

Thank you Dieter for responding in a clear, non-judgmental way to my query. I wanted to know: is there a small digital computer in this module Yes, there is a DAC with a microcontroller with firmware forming a shift register.

Everyone else, resume your squabbling over the ridiculousness of many modular users' distinction between analog and digital.

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , Florian Anwander <fanwander@...> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> as Julian already described, if you would not allow digital functions in
> a synth you would have a sawtooth VCO with a Filter and a VCA. Nothing
> else. The pulse wave is already a digital conversion from the saw-core
> of the VCO.
>
> I think you want to avoid A/D-D/A constructs in the audio signal path.
> This may make sense. But nearly all control modules (even envelopes,
> LFOs, ...) have some kind of digital function. So I suggest you should
> exclude this type of modules from your yonstraint.
>
> In consequence: the A-149-series would be allowed for you too.
>
> Florian
>