Hi Timothy

> I had an idea that nearly worked with respect to this:
> The idea was to hold the 163 at 'divide by 1' whilst in a 'reset'
> state, then let it jump back to the required 'divide by n' when the
> reset is removed (and which by assumption also re-starts the main
> clock). Hopefully this means it starts dividing again from the right
> point. I did this by switching the CV controlling the 'divide by n'
> through a 150,

A good one, too! Too bad it didn't work out.

> I'm assuming the caps are there for stability
> purposes - whether they could be reduced sufficiently to allow this
> idea to work (it may not even be a very good one at that!) and still
> be stable, I don't know ...

Yeah, I'm starting to have doubts about it myself...

The basic goal is to be able to control the length of each sequencer
step using the bottom row of A155 knobs. I've done this with the A147
VC LFO as described in the A155 user's manual, and it will work
the same with the proposed A154 clock generator. Neither allow midi
sync (when the VC control of rate is in use, bakis), and the
continuous control is difficult to adjust without any sort of
quantization.

I'm not an engineer, maybe a VC clock divider idea isn't the right
approach. It isn't obvious that the change in divisor would be fast
enough to control the sequencer accurately. Perhaps a software LFO
that can either be synced to a master clock or free-running, and whose
rate can be adjusted in increments by a control voltage.

Joe