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From: "Elson Trinidad" <elson@...>


> >what would be a decent hardware sequencer for me to pick up to play
> >around with that is relatively inexpensive. I hate Cakewalk and
> >Cubase. Too much crap to messa round with and fill my screen. Give me
> >something tangible in my hands to trigger my keys. Once upon a time I
> >had an Alesis MMT8, but that's a midi recorder.
>
> There's not that many hardware sequencers around...in fact there are none,
> but there are samplers/workstations/grooveboxes that have sequencers in
> them. The only ones I can come up with are...

Actually, there are pure sequencers, but not that many, indeed.

> [Akai MPC2000 / MPC2000XL]
> [Yamaha RM1x]
> [Roland MC505]
> [Ensoniq ASR-X Pro]

There's also the Kawai Q80EXE:
http://www.kawaius.com/q80exe.htm

The Notron thing that looks like a toilet seat:
http://www.notron.com/ (not working right now)

Yamaha has the QY70 (small) and QY700:
http://www.yamahasynth.com/

- Peter