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[Haible Juergen <Juergen.Haible@nbgm.siemens.de>]

        >The OB Echoplex can sync continuously to the old type of pulse
clock from
        >old sequencers and arpeggiators, using the BeatSync jack. It
also works
        >with other pulses, like drum triggers. You can even use audio
sources, like
        >a metronome output or a mic'd drum or even a guitar. Just has
to be some
        >kind of pulse. The sync operates the same as midi sync for
setting loop
        >times, and keeping them in time. The echoplex can also drive
pulse clocks
        >out the same jack, so you could sync the arpeggiator to the
loop.

This sounds amazing !

You know, one of my favorite things is playing lead lines on other 
synths, while my OB-8's (from Oberheim's glory days!) arpeggiator 
plays percussive patterns into a multitap delay (SRS-56).
Then, after some minutes of freaking out, I set the arpeggiator
to a much slower rate, and adjust the OB-8's envelopes accordingly,
which will now produce very slowly rising and fading notes, and
I love calming down and playing very slow melody fragments
over this pattern.
It would be very pleasant to have a delay that follows such extreme
tempo changes seamlessly.
But there is one thing I don't quite understand:

Asuming in the "fast" part, the Echoplex would be triggered every
500ms, and then suddenly the triggers only come every 10 seconds.
Does the Echoplex really wait these 10 seconds until it resets its
cycle, or does it only wait during some time "window" ?
And what does it play from 0.5s to 10s during the first long
loop (there isn't anything stored in this place of the RAM, I asume?)

Sorry for the stupid question - I just cannot imagine what would happen.

JH.