A very good old-school sequencer from Korg. Designed for the MS series synthesizers and using Korg's CV / Gate control the SQ-10 sequencer can really surprise you with some groovy basslines. Three channel output allows pitch, tone color and timing variation. Use the knobs to adjust and build up a sequence. Sure it's limited to 12 steps (with a max of 24) but when you hook that up to your MS-10, MS-20 or MS-50 you can get some pretty cool TB-303 like stuff happening. Because the SQ-10 outputs CV (Control Voltage) it can also be connected to the Oscillators, VCF (filter) or LFO's of your MS synths for even cooler tricks. Using a CV / Gate converter allows you to use the SQ-10 with other Roland, Moog, Sequential and even MIDI synthesizers. It's definitely a fun instrument which allows you to program basslines just like they did back in the early days!

kevin nowhow

September 2, 2009 @ 8:21 pm

Never studied the whole 'Alles Ist Gut' to the core but i believe that the bassline/riff on 'Der Mussollini' is 2 square waves sync'ed(one about a perfect fifth higher than the other & a touch of overdrive)& as far as i know no MS-synth had sync options.So i agree with zrdz;it could be a System 100(with the expander added on),or some other sync-capable synth of the era(how about an ARP Odyssey?)...

dr. motte

August 19, 2009 @ 5:23 am

i sold mine to alex hacke who showed it at the movie "no wave" by chrstoph dreher...

zrdz

August 9, 2009 @ 5:13 pm

mhh, DAF weren't using a system100 on alles ist gut?

Chris

July 13, 2009 @ 11:15 am

One of these was used, along with an MS-20, to create all the synth parts on the classic DAF albums "Alles ist gut", "Für immer" and "Golde und Liebe".

Roger Freeman

February 27, 2009 @ 12:21 pm

One clever trick is to take one of the channel outputs back into the VC clock and get some complex ryhtms: I use it in conjunction with a MAQ16/3 and a MIDI-CLK interface to get some good polyrhtyms going. I like the SQ-10 a lot but I wish it had a quantised output and V/oct as well as Hz/V.

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