Mix logic outputs to create melodies

If you combine two or more gate streams in a mixer or logic circuit, you can derive a stepped melody from the results

If you combine clocks and/or logic outputs derived from those clocks in a CV mixer, and then quantize the result to a scale, you have created a melodic pitch sequence without a sequencer. Swapping around the sources of the mixes, adjusting levels will result in different melodies.

Example:

• patch two or more different clock sources into a logic module
• patch patch different logic outputs—ones that are changing due to the clocks—to a mixer
• patch the mixer’s output to a quantizer
• use the quantizer’s output to pitch a voice
• try different logic outputs, different combinations of clock divisions, and different mixer attenuations

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