It also works great with audio sources and modulation. Plug in multiple sources - different outputs of an oscillator, maybe Just Friend’s individual outs if you have that - and feed it a modulation signal. Audio into the CV can be really interesting.
Alternately, take a single audio source, and patch it via the switch outs to multiple processing destinations, and cycle through those rhythmically.
If you’re using the clock, the digital outs are handy for firing reset so that you can shorten the ‘steps’ in your switch sequence. If you’re using CV to modulate, you can just attenuate the incoming CV to target a more limited set of switches.
Note this remark from the Doepfer site on the clock in:
Remark: The clock signal that is fed into the Clock In socket has to be GND referenced to the A-100 frame. The reason for this is a recognition circuit at the clock input that is used to decide if the module is clock controlled or voltage controlled. For this recognition the GND pin of the Clock In socket is used. If an external clock signal is used (i.e. not coming from a module mounted into the A-100 frame where the A-152 is mounted) the GND reference is missing and the recognition circuit does not work (with the result that the clock input does not work). But there is a simple workaround: as soon as both systems are connected by means of any other patch cable that way the GND reference is established.
I am not at home at the moment, but this makes me want to rack the module and see if there are issues with the clock in. It sounds like if your clock source is within the same case, it should not be an issue.
