The machine is in my friend's studio 25 kilometers away from here, so I tried it few times. In 90s, Prophet belonged to an italian quite famous trance dj: we don't know how he took care of it. It definitely stayed turn off for some years. From february, my friend become to use it almost every day, a...

Hello, My friend's Prophet 600 control panel suddenly stops to work properly: all knobs don't respond to control any more. Arpeggio stops to work too, also it doesn't trigger an external instrument through midi out. All the presets sound the same: a sort of spacey sound... Whatever key of the keyboa...

Hello,
CSQ 600 hasn't got a midi port.
The single 5 pin din port it has, is a sync out port (Roland pre-midi system)
It is a system to connect other Roland drum machines or step synths sequencer ( mc-202/ tb 303) of the first half of 80s.
It trasmits only tempo and start/stop messages. No note.

You can combine 4 parts memory (150 notes each one) together to create melody, choosing in real time what part activate by proper slider You can apply portamento during playback memory backup when you turn off the unit sync out connection sync load circut to work with another CSQ or a drum machine( ...

Hello, I finally bought a CSQ-600 for an almost reasonable price.
I'm testing it right now.
Many thanks for your useful answers!

Vince

Hello to everyone, this my first post! :) I bought a Roland SH 09 in December. It's a very cool instrument! I need suggestions about how to use to control it by cv/gate. I don't mean a simple midi/cv-gate converter, but a more usefull "hardware sequencer" or a sort of... I'd like not to buy another ...