Mathew, Ingo
Thanks for this info
I am about to order a fracrack from blacet to complement my A-100,
and will now also give the noisering some serious thoughts.

kind regards
Joost

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , "selfoscillate"
<synaptic_music@y...> wrote:

> --- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , "levka0" <levka@w...> wrote:
> > Mathhew,
> > What about the Wiard noise ring
> > I was thinking about it, but cannot get much clues from their site
> > Can it be mimmicked with a few Doepfer modules
> >
> > thanks
> > Joost
>
> hello joost,
>
> the noise ring cannot be mimmicked with doepfer modules so far.
> basically it is a looped 8-bit shift-register with a noise source,
> a clock generator and a bunch of comparators inside.
>
> the noise source (or an external signal) feeds the shift register.
> via the controls you can choose if new data is going
> into the shift register or if the old data is looped over and
> over. also you can adjust the comparators via the
> knobs (and cv) to produce more "zero's" or more "one's"
> and how often new data is put into the loop.
> the 8-bit data inside the shift register is converted into
> two cv's, similar to the a149/1 resp the buchla 265/266.
> depending on the clock speed you can achieve various
> results from pure noise to blips to strange audio to
> random cv to a hundred other things. for me it is the
> coolest random source available so far, really rewarding
> if someone likes to experiment with the unpredictable.
>
> best wishes
>
> ingo