Hello fellow Atarians,

Several of you have asked me how the Sequencer section of Schoenberg 5
operates. hear is a brief explanation:-

I have often felt that the music generated by Schoenberg can be a bit
static with one single Pitch-Row, Length-Row, and Velocity-Row used
throughout a composition. Being that Schoenberg can hold 6 different
programmable Pitch Palettes and 6 Length Palettes ( selectable by the
button to left of the Palettes ) it seemed only natural to find some way
of being able to use more than one at a time in a composition. Thus
adding to the range and variation in the music created. This is where
the Sequencer Page comes in.

On the Sequencer Page the composition is split into 8 equal sections (
in the 1Meg version, 2 in the 1/2 Meg ). In each section you can select
which of the 6 programmable Pitch, programmable Length, and pre-set
Velocity Palettes you want to use in the composition. Hence you can
program in either subtle variations using slightly different Pitch and
Length Palettes throughout a piece, introduce transpositions, or
completely different sounding movements. It must be stressed that this
variation only occurs at the "Compose" phase and any of the Playback
parameters Playback mode, Bias, Poly, Voice and Channel parameters
remain unchanged.

I hope that's a bit clearer (??)
Gareth Jones

http://www.themsc.cjb.net