The Kawai Q-80 by Kawai Musical Instruments in 1989, is a music sequencer that has a built in 2DD floppy disk drive for storage. It allows playback, editing, and recording via its MIDI connections. There is a battery backup to hold the configuration when the unit is powered down. The tempo can be set from 40-250 beats per minute.
Active quantisation
Only corrects the notes that are completely out of time with the rest of the track, for a more natural feel and less robotic to the performance. ==Connections==
Connections
• MIDI in, out and Thru. • Tape sync in and out • Metronome • Footswitch input ==Storage==
Storage
Using the units internal S-RAM the Q-80 can hold; • A total of 26,000 notes, this consists of 10 songs (up to 32 tracks, 15,000 notes per track) • 100 motifs per song (similar to a pattern in a drum machine) ==References==