I enjoyed this thread when it was started a while back, and since I recorded something I thought I would revive it...
There was a YouTube video of Klaus Schulze (since removed) sitting in front of a bunch of synths, and for the first time I saw and kind of understood how those old step sequencers worked. Needless to say, I was intrigued, and after much deliberation and searching on various forums picked up a Doepfer MAQ16/3 sequencer.
It took me an hour of fiddling to get any sound out of it at all - forgot I had unplugged the MIDI cable! Once I got it up and running, though, it's turned out to be very cool, though it takes a while at first. So here's something I recorded after a few days of experiments:
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The first row of the MAQ is playing the riff through the Little Phatty. I then split that signal - you can hear the "clean" track (going through my old MF-104) in the left channel. In the right channel I have it going through the MF-101, with the frequency being controlled via the third row of the MAQ by CV (and played through Space Echo). I think I was modulating the cutoff frequency of the filter in the LP too, with the lowest LFO setting. I adjusted stuff here and there by hand. The lead is messing around with the "overdriver" preset.
I hear all kinds of stuff that I would do differently if I did it over again - having the sequenced part be played by two alternating rows instead of one, etc. - but I'm going to leave it as is. Enjoy - I really enjoyed listening to the other stuff posted in this thread!
