I just came across this thread and tried out this technique, it’s amazing!
Thanks @LyingDalai and @Bwax for sharing, hours of fun here. Actually doesn’t sound too far off those chord sequences in Barker’s recent stuff (Chord-Arps/-Patterns like "Barker" - HOW?) with the right drum loops. Also I now see how they did the intro to “Remind Me” by Royksopp
I actually really liked the sound of this technique with just four bands on the vocoder, then tweaking the Gate level and the release to control the “amount of trigs” (for want of a better work). Sounds great if you run it in to an Auto Filter using the filter’s envelope trigger with a bit of attack, that way you get that nice dub techno filter attack squelch at low cutoff values, then removing the attack and becoming sharper as you increase the cutoff.
This is a great thread, thanks all, loads of other stuff to check out!