SQ-1 : A true weapon but has some shortfalls

This was my first sequencer and boy was it fun to tell the MS-20 what to do. It didn't take long to understand the features at all after reading the manual.

Pros:

Very quick to get a tangible sequence going and can simply be linked in a chain and clocked to other hardware.

Power by 9V battery or USB-B.

Cons:

Quite small

No memory so you best record the audio.

Fixed velocity.

The pitch knobs have no reference point which makes it very difficult to set exact pitch for the notes but you can define the scale to keep the notes within the realm of sense. If dissonance is what you want then this might not be a con for you.

When connected to Ableton, I couldn't get it to set to any midi channel but channel 1. Not impossible to work around but still annoying.

Other than that I've heard Korg almost don't profit off of these so fair play to them