Sequential Circuits • MultiTrak

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This is a great synth because it has everything and sounds great! During the era of the Roland Juno synths, Sequential redefined their programmable little SixTrak analog sequencer synthesizer and came up with the Multitrak. It's a 6 voice analog synth with sophisticated filters, envelopes and modulation capabilities. It is programmed by pushing buttons on the matrix keypad and twisting some knobs. It also features a very flexible arpeggiator with hold and transpose functions. It has a very sophisticated onboard sequencer that has a metronome and quantizing function. There are 100 memory patches for your analog sound creations.


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BobthePlanet
Posted 352 days ago
I have owned a Multitrak since 1985 and it has always been one of my favorites - alongside my SCI Pro One. One of the features that is rarely mentioned is the ability to do additive synthesis in addition to the more common subtractive. This is easily accomplished with its "Stack" feature, which is not simply a detuned "Unison" mode as is usually found on these older synths. Any or all of the six voices in the stack can be the same or different patches. Conceivably, you could create 6 wave patches representing the harmonics of a particular timbre and add them together. However, this leaves you in monophonic land as you truly only have 6 voices to play with. [cont.]
BobthePlanet
Posted 352 days ago
But you can create complex waveforms with 2 or 3 voices where each has its own envelope for the VCO, VCF, and VCA along with all the other parameters available. This will allow chord or duotone fingering. Stacking percussive bells can give excellent approximations of vibraphones or glockenspiels. Stacking different horn sounds gives a powerful brass ensemble. If only there were more voices available this would have had an unbeatable analog sound. The only other shortcoming I feel it has is the "softness" of the sound. Sometimes it seems like the MultiTrak is too mellow - but that's analog for you.
BobthePlanet
Posted 352 days ago
I have owned a Multitrak since 1985 and it has always been one of my favorites - alongside my SCI Pro One. One of the features that is rarely mentioned is the ability to do additive synthesis in addition to the more common subtractive. This is easily accomplished with its "Stack" feature, which is not simply a detuned "Unison" mode as is usually found on these older synths. Any or all of the six voices in the stack can be the same or different patches. Conceivably, you could create 6 wave patches representing the harmonics of a particular timbre and add them together. However, this leaves you in monophonic land as you truly only have 6 voices to play with. [cont.]
slide
Posted 551 days ago
I need the informantion on how to download from the factory cassette to load the Squential synthesizer model 615 sound back on the memory.The problem that I'm having is the battery is not keeping it
memory.So I;m going to replace the backup battery because it has
go dead.
lefreak
Posted 667 days ago
Might sound silly but i had one years ago and from memory the main output socket is a stereo 1/4" socket.... not 2 mono sockets as per norm, this has fooled a few people when getting it to sound correct.....