LOOK! New hardware TR sequencer - Europa Analogue Solutions

costi_ebay · Post by **costi_ebay** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 8:19 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TywnYgaA_3c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z17YEUc6FKM

robosardine · Post by **robosardine** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:34 pm

Is it just me? or does this thing look and sound like it's going well down the list of desirable grooveboxes. £500 no less! Now let me see.... You could add an ESX or an EMX or any two other Electribes to your setup AND have change left over OR get a TR Diddilydinker. mmm let me think.

mbncp · Post by **mbncp** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:04 pm

Looks nice but a bit limited, no ?

I'm currently looking at this one:
http://www.genoqs.com/index.php?option= ... &Itemid=60

It looks pretty impressive, bunch of tracks, up to 7 notes per step (chords, strummimg), PW, AT, CC, 32 output channels, you can even dump pre-recorded patterns from a pc while playing ... looks like a dream.

Anyone ever tried an octopus or nemo from genoqs.

X-Trade · Post by **X-Trade** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:54 pm

I don't know if i'm missing something, but there seems to be no multitimbral/multichannel functionality. How about pattern switching?

Yes, it looks fairly limited.

Dietrich · Post by **Dietrich** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:59 pm

robosardine wrote:Is it just me? or does this thing look and sound like it's going well down the list of desirable grooveboxes. £500 no less! Now let me see.... You could add an ESX or an EMX or any two other Electribes to your setup AND have change left over OR get a TR Diddilydinker. mmm let me think.

Afaik it's just a sequencer and thus does not make any sound. It may still be cool though.

orbit · Post by **orbit** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 4:31 pm

Someone wake me up when a company makes a better hardware sequencer than the Yamaha RM1x and RS7000.
Yammy makes (made) simply the most comprehensive, live-tweakable and flexible sequencers and to my knowledge no one has done anything even close since.

gil videla · Post by **gil videla** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 10:14 pm

[quote="mbncp"]Looks nice but a bit limited, no ?

I'm currently looking at this one:
[url]http://www.genoqs.com/index.php?option= ... &Itemid=60[/url]

It looks pretty impressive, bunch of tracks, up to 7 notes per step (chords, strummimg), PW, AT, CC, 32 output channels, you can even dump pre-recorded patterns from a pc while playing ... looks like a dream.

Anyone ever tried an octopus or nemo from genoqs.[/quote]

I've never tried it, but my friend has one (actually had two at one point)
He's an analogue modular freak with an aresenal of stuff in his basement... Loves the thing.

mbncp · Post by **mbncp** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 10:29 am

gil videla wrote:[..]He's an analogue modular freak with an aresenal of stuff in his basement... Loves the thing.

He,he, I should get my two first analogs synths in a few days.

The genoqs do look impressive, but I'm mainly a musician (keyboards and guitars/bass) and I find there is a little too much two hands operations on those. Really need to operate it with a single hand and a few stuff directly from a foot controller.

What really kills me is that I never found a sequencer that records everything I play, then, with one or two buttons tell it to loop the last 8 (playing) bars or whatever. Or play the last 4 bars, but only every 16 bars ...
The closest I found was Live, but you still need to use the mouse + it really lacks flexibility. And a bunch of functions can't be automated.

Oh well, I will finally write my own sequencer as I have all the midi tools I need, the only problem being the controllers.
Netbook for visual feedback, nanopad for some quick functions.
Knobs need to be bi-directional, like the BCR2000, but that thing is really huge and novation kind of sucks with their autocrap.
The biggest problem is the stepsequencer, would be nice to have something like the tenori but with multiple colors or maybe a touchscreen pc, it's a must to be able to draw/edit notes/motion sequences with the fingers.