Q
is an interactive music software, a three-channel analog sequencer.
It controls Zeta's software synthesizer through a geek's favarite
interface with a lot of volume knobs and blinking LEDs, very similar
to ancient analogue sequencer hardware. Turning these knobs at random,
you may encounter unforeseen fantastic melodies. It is an easy-to-use
application, but you will easily spend hours in front of the computer,
trying to make the perfect sound.

Q’s three rows of dials correspond to three output channels
mentioned above. You can choose the instrument associated with each
output channel from a list of over 100 MIDI instruments. As there
are 16 columns of dials, you will by default be playing 16-beat
measures. This can easily be controlled; just click at any of the
LEDs in the top row and the sequence will be terminated at that
point instead, so that you can change to 16-, 8- or 4-bit measures
on the fly, while your tune is playing.
If you don’t want your sequnce to loop into infinity, change
the Repeat knob to Step (the Repeat option is default).
If you click the Step button repeatedly, you will hear
one note at the time. This is useful for trying to get a given time
slice perfect. Toggling to Single mode, will make the application
play the entire measure through once and stop (no repeating).
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