Korg SQ-1 with Arturia Microbrute
So I bought an SQ-1 without actually knowing what it does or how to incorporate it into my bleeping rig. The main thing I wanted to do was to sync the Arturia Microbrute with my Korg Volcas. Granted that it's probably easier and makes sense to get a MIDI interface with multiple ports on it and program everything through Ableton live, I thought it would be be interesting to just do everything via hardware as an option to muck around. What I found the easiest that works is to plug the Midi out of the SQ-1 directly to the Midi in of the Microbrute and use the SQ-1 to replace the use of sequencer on the Microbrute and plug the sync out of the SQ-1 to the Volca's Sync In (which is chained to the other Volcas) so that all the sound modules can play at the same time. Each volca will however use it's own onboard step sequencers. Programming the 16 steps on the SQ-1 is quite interesting with the knobs doing the adjustment to the pitch so it might not be accurate or practical if yo...