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HI to all members. I am looking for a suitable analogue sequencer (real time) to go with my sh101 and minibrute something along the lines of the old Roland csq 100-600 units from the late 70s early 80s with cv and gate connections any pointers to a cheapish solution please ?

You already have a sequencer like a CSQ100 in your SH101 (especially paired w/ a programmable trigger sequencer of some sort)

These are not really "real time"... Can you elaborate what you mean / actually want to do?

Cheers

Get the beatstep pro, and don't look back. The sq1 is good and basic, but the BSP is so far beyond it, it's a no brainer. Especially if you have two synths to sequence, since you can sequence both at the same time and have room for drums!

pflosi wrote:You already have a sequencer like a CSQ100 in your SH101 (especially paired w/ a programmable trigger sequencer of some sort)

These are not really "real time"... Can you elaborate what you mean / actually want to do?

Cheers

Thanks for your swift reply Yes I am aware that both my sh101, owned for over 30 years and my minibrute se have basic onboard sequencers . What I want is a unit that I can rewrite the timing of the sequence of notes i.e. putting a pause between notes as opposed to clock timing hope that makes sense.

ninja6485 wrote:Get the beatstep pro, and don't look back. The sq1 is good and basic, but the BSP is so far beyond it, it's a no brainer. Especially if you have two synths to sequence, since you can sequence both at the same time and have room for drums!

Thanks for your reply . I have been looking at the arturia beatstep as they crop up on the bay quite often and sell for £35-£45 weather that's a bad sign the beatstep pro costs a lot more so perhaps I should save up some more dosh and go for the pro thanks again for your reply , this is a cool site

Yes, the beatstep pro is a different animal. You get 3 sequencers with a tr style row of steps, the pads for entering notes, and knobs like the sq1 that can be used to enter notes as well, but they also work with velocity and gate. The 3rd is a rythm sequencer that can send 8 drum triggers.

All of your sequences can be saved, and you can chain up to 16 patterns. Patterns can each be 64 steps long. You can also save these on your computer. The machine itself saves 16 projects in its internal memory.

Compared to something like the sq1, the sq1 has one set of 16 steps with no memory banks, no chaining patterns, just 16 steps with only the knob interface to work with.

I would imagine the standard beatstep is cheap now because most people have upgraded to the BSP. It's under $300 new, which is a steal compared to something like a maq16/3 which is about 2 or 3 times the price with similar functionality. In short - save the dosh

SH101Chris wrote:

pflosi wrote:You already have a sequencer like a CSQ100 in your SH101 (especially paired w/ a programmable trigger sequencer of some sort)

These are not really "real time"... Can you elaborate what you mean / actually want to do?

Cheers

Thanks for your swift reply Yes I am aware that both my sh101, owned for over 30 years and my minibrute se have basic onboard sequencers . What I want is a unit that I can rewrite the timing of the sequence of notes i.e. putting a pause between notes as opposed to clock timing hope that makes sense.

You can totally program rests with the 101 sequencer...