Kawai Q-80

The Kawai Q-80 by Kawai Musical Instruments in 1989,[1] is a music sequencer that has a built in 2DD floppy disk drive for storage. It allows playback, editing, and recording via its MIDI connections. There is a battery backup to hold the configuration when the unit is powered down. The tempo can be set from 40-250 beats per minute.

Active quantisation

Only corrects the notes that are completely out of time with the rest of the track, for a more natural feel and less robotic to the performance.

Connections
  • MIDI in, out and Thru.
  • Tape sync in and out
  • Metronome
  • Footswitch input

Storage

Using the units internal S-RAM the Q-80 can hold;

  • A total of 26,000 notes,[2] this consists of 10 songs (up to 32 tracks, 15,000 notes per track)
  • 100 motifs per song (similar to a pattern in a drum machine)
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gollark: How common are ridiculously unplanned failure modes? And how much do the humans actually get them right?
gollark: There is the problem that your thing might rely too much on simulation quirks.
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References
  1. "Kawai Q-80 at Gearogs". www.gearogs.com. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  2. "Kawai Q80 (MT Nov 88)". www.muzines.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-01.

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