The Six-Trak is Sequential's beginner synth. It has typical Sequential sounds in an analog six oscillator, six voice synth. It is not fun to program, there is only one knob and you need to assign the parameter you wish to adjust to this knob. The assignment settings for the various parameters are listed in the center of the front panel. It does however feature MIDI with controllers for its parameters to make editing easier using a computer program such as Unisyn or other external MIDI controller.

The Six-Trak features two operational modes: Polyphonic Mode and Unison Mode. In Unison mode, with all six oscillators, this baby gets fat, rich, creamy and wild making it an excellent stand-in for Moog-like sounds. Also, the Six-Trak is capable of interesting and complex sound effects, mostly thanks to useful cross modulation and the six oscillators. It also includes a simple 6-channel on-board sequencer (of little usefulness these days). Its biggest limitations were: shortest attack too slow for really percussive sounds, smallest vco frequency adjustment too big for Zawinul-style subtle frequency envelopes & LFO, and the lack of built-in chorus, which would have helped to thicken the rather thin sounds in Polyphonic mode. The SixTrak can be fun and cool but is overshadowed by its cousin - the Multi-Trak. It is used by Überzone and Cirrus.

pogster1974

March 5, 2013 @ 9:39 am

Can anyone help with advice on the following: on every 6th note on my SixTrak in poly mode the sound is louder and discordant. I wonder if a voice chip is faulty? Any thoughts welcome....
Thanks

dab

February 7, 2013 @ 1:25 pm

I bought one of these brand new in 1984. Never used it other than noodling and home recording. It sat in my closet for almost 20 years untouched. I sold it to a musician friend of mine (it was in mint condition) for $200. He toured with it for years. Needless to say, it was no longer mint, it was tornnn up, but it still worked. This keyboard inspired many great songs in their band. I'm glad someone got good use out of it.
My old 6-trak can be seen used here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8rwJNvselg

bernard.filipetti

December 10, 2012 @ 6:11 am

hi i'm french
there is a very simple way to enjoy the six trak...
you a have to use an external midi controller as peavey 1600 X or an another one and that's it you can access to all the parameters in direct, live etc....
select your midi channel Rec 3 and then REC 2 and add 2 at each parameters n° on your midi controller.... when your recording the midi parameters are recorded etc....ENJOY
I have two six track...

11:11

October 24, 2012 @ 6:50 am

The primitive arpeggiator is really usuefull in the sense that it's easy to play and to make useful in actual songs, it won't do "crazy" arp-things (as other more advanced arps), that you won't be able to use anyhow. (btw - the arp is up/down AND assigned)
IMO it sounds better than Korg Polysix or Rolands vintage Junos for example. The only con is the lack of knobs, but as I said, that problem can easily be solved with Kiwi Patch Editor or if you wanna setup some MIDI-control solution of your own.
If you'd offer me 2500$ maybe I would consider selling it.

11:11

October 24, 2012 @ 6:47 am

Truly amazing synth! Highly underrated. The 3 star rating is a joke! It's warm, fat, rich and creamy. It really comes alive if you get a Kiwi Patch Editor or similar, to get hands-on knobs to tweak! (if it would have knobs it would be a real classic). But it's simple to program without a "knob-modul" also, but you won't be able to tweak sounds easy in a live situation.
It's by far the most versatile synth i've ever played. GREAT for everything. Unison or stacked for REALLY fat bass/leads. And the polyphony is not "thin" as some claim you can make really creamy pads or really ambient pads.

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