rich_biatch wrote:my friend has one of those. ill never spend that much money on a sequencer.

oh damn! your friend must be the richer biatch!
have you ever used it? what does your friend think of it?
if i was rich, i'd buy one for sure.
1. just to see if i clicked with it.
2. to support a small company that makes such superb and different thinking hardware.
if you check out the genoqs forum, you see they are good with the support & firmware updates- incorporating a lot of user requests & things. the interface is quite ingenious. no menu diving - everything is just a click away.
you would have to spend a lot of time getting fluent with the octopus for sure, just like learning any other instrument. but once you got quick with it you could zoom around and just do insane sequencing stuff all in realtime.
i guess the best thing about the schaltwerk is the interface... dancing lights. the worst thing is certainly the fact that it cant be slaved to an external tempo, itll always fall out of time. so it has to either be the master or independent. its really flimsy too.
the schaltwerk is flimsy?! the thing looks like a tank!