Octopus sequencer

ripe909 does his Trance Trash thing live, with help from the Octopus, SE BassLine x0xb0x, Machinedrum, Revolution, JP-8080, oh and, yes, some Virus. 

Does this guy have the gear, or what?

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A mellow acid track featuring the SE BassLine x0xb0x as 303. Sequenced on the genoQs Octopus, with 909 for drums and a little Machinedrum and virus TI.

Not sure if this is awesome or if I was just hypnotized by all the blinky lights…..

Here’s a couple of video demos, via ripe909, on the Genoqs Octopus Sequencer:

Genoqs Octopus Sequencer 1

This is a short tutorial on the Genoqs Octopus that shows how to use custom direction maps and step events to perform a simple modification on how a sequence plays. Read more…

genoQs Machines has announced NEMO, a new MIDI sequencer based on technology from their Octopus sequencer.

Features:

• Unique, high-end design
• Octopus technology at heart
• Portable format
• 16 concurrent tracks
• Intuitive, realtime everything

Pricing is set at 1399 Euros, with availability in July. The site promises more details to come.

The Octopus is a new performance-oriented MIDI Control Sequencer under development by genoQs Machines.

According to genoQs, the Octopus shares some of the design goals as as the desirable but unobtainable Latronic Notron.

“What OCTOPUS and Notron probably share is the goal of to being high-end composition tools for MIDI sequencing. This may explain why the community of interest around OCTOPUS has a substantial share of Notron users. OCTOPUS offers vast live performance capabilities via a “flat” user interface model trying to avoid a much as possible deeply buried features.” Read more…