SEQ-4

• SEQ-4 turns the FM-1 into four MIDI sequencers that play synths, drum machines and software over four USB ports.
• Each sequencer runs one of six modes, with up to 128 steps across eight pages and sixteen patterns.
• The FM-1 makes no sound of its own here apart from a metronome click.
• Every step holds velocity, octave, gate, glide, timing offset, repeats and a condition such as chance, first or fill.
• White keys are the steps and black keys the rows; press SEQ to play the keys as a keyboard.
• Record live with REC, step by step when stopped, or press REC twice to capture the notes just played.
• Two LFOs, four mod lanes, Euclid, a drum generator, a random generator and a harmonizer shape what plays.
• SAVE writes the sequencer into its pattern in flash, and a TRS jack takes in a keyboard or clock.

Its modes

Mono

Play a melody of one note per step, with the rows set to a scale's degrees.

Poly

Put up to seven notes on a step by playing a hand and tapping the step.

Chord

Place a chord on each step and set its type, voicing, spread, strum and bass note.

Multitrack

Program eight tracks of triggers, each with its own note, channel, port, length and division.

Stochastic

Set how likely each note, octave and length is and let the sequencer improvise.

Matriceal

Run four tracks of ten lanes for triggers, notes, intervals, pulses and more, each at its own speed.

The keyboard

Turn the keys into a playable keyboard, chord keyboard or drum pads for the sequencer on screen.

The patterns

See four rows of sixteen patterns and load, save, copy or empty them with the keys.

The arranger

Build ten songs from four lanes of slots, each a pattern played a set number of times.