Not 100% sure until I have this in hand… but the idea is to be able to set outputs either to 0V or to 5V (via “set” and “reset”) or just keep them held. Basically like a flip flop.
This can be very useful for controlling the up/down of a second sequencer, or for turning off and on entire sections of clock pulses by changing a single knob (i.e. when the latch output is “AND”-ed with a clock source.)
Currently I make these “latches” with comparators set in positive feedback with themselves (wrote a post in this above…), giving me a control schema where the high knob positions set the latch to 0V, the low positions set it to 5V, and the middle holds the previous value – but it takes some practice to tune the middle region to where I can get predictable results.
One thing I need to go back and correct is that sometimes the comparator-feedback patch is overly sensitive to abrupt transients and so the control input needs to be smoothed a little with a DSG or pos/neg slew.
so what I anticipate here is that a thing which I use all the time but that I have to patch up already in a complicated manner and with difficulties tuning it, is now made as an explicit ‘module’, that just works. likewise, there will probably be many new applications I haven’t explored, also with the added functionality of these sequencers.
More generally the purpose is to set up multiple sequencers to interact in ways that are themselves controllable via the sequencer knob positions, so that I can turn one knob and melodies/rhythms change fundamentally as the knob crosses a threshold. if the knob is mapped to some sound parameter, say filter cutoff, the effect is to build up a tension, then have the entire system reach a “tipping point”, then change irreversibly as a release in that tension. although this “analytic” itself misses the big picture, and is not really how i think about this…
