Good video overall. It glossed over and oversimplified a lot about Marbles, but as it says, it can be fairly complex. A couple of cool things about Marbles:
– you can program custom scales, and the quantization on the Steps knob is based on how commonly the notes appeared in your playing.
– it can sample incoming CV from another source, rather than using random values – so it can act as a sort of rearranging/re-quantizing shift register.
– gate and CV sections that are linked by default, but can be separated
– it makes a pretty great master clock, but it can also follow rhythmic sequences from other sources and even time its glides to match the rhythm.
Another option is u-he CVilization. It’s got four main modes; one is somewhat similar to Bloom (randomize or capture a sequence, then mutate it in various ways and “unmutate” if you want to), and another is a sequencer/sequential switch that can have random steps. Powerful stuff. The downside is, it is a multifunction module that relies on color codes and a cheat sheet to some extent, though the design is pretty smart overall and a lot of things aren’t hard to memorize.
