They don't make em' like this anymore. This would have been a real feat in musical technology when it was made, Nothing made today can be seen to make as much of a breakthrough as this did back then.
Only 200 MC-8s were made, at a cost of US$8000 each in 1977. But it was the world's first standalone microprocessor-controlled sequencer. It can store sequences up to 5200 steps long, and any parameter controllable by CV/Gate can be programmed. The MC-8 could control any device which uses a CV/Gate interface, including stage lighting.
This sounds great, I thought my JSQ-60 was an old school sequencer but this takes it to the next level.
I find that I can step sequence a whole track on the JSQ but I normally do a loop make a rough version on the computer and then reverse engineer it back onto the hardware sequencer so for those guys who actually just out and out made a whole track on these things big respect because it's hard work.
I'm too spoiled by loops and programs that let you type in the notation. Composing something on a sequencer like this would take me all freaking year.
reminds me how much i LOVE HOW VINTAGE GEAR LOOKS, i love those big cash register buttons
bonusbmusic 1 week ago
No offense, and I totally Love vintage Audio hardware, but this kinda reminds me of this:
youtu.be TSwqnR327fk
MrSidMan 2 weeks ago
And to think Martin Rushent spent WEEKS slaving over this thing when producing Dare.
senorverde09 1 month ago
They don't make em' like this anymore. This would have been a real feat in musical technology when it was made, Nothing made today can be seen to make as much of a breakthrough as this did back then.
Yazoku 5 months ago
reminds me of 80's serials and cartoons
Munkki345 7 months ago
Only 200 MC-8s were made, at a cost of US$8000 each in 1977. But it was the world's first standalone microprocessor-controlled sequencer. It can store sequences up to 5200 steps long, and any parameter controllable by CV/Gate can be programmed. The MC-8 could control any device which uses a CV/Gate interface, including stage lighting.
douro20 8 months ago
How old is this sequencer?
douro20 8 months ago
That machine take FOREVER to program.... the manual is "over 9000" pages
KaslarProductions 1 year ago
DAMN this is probably the coolest thing ever.
VacTrooper 1 year ago 9
Sound like CONTRA video game music
funkberto 1 year ago
Groovebox avant-la-lettre
Passie808 1 year ago
fuckin incredible!!!!!!
the SH sounds amazin controlled by it!
kotep777 1 year ago 2
8-bit prog rock
harktheherald 2 years ago 2
@harktheherald
Not at all. It sounds like it, but all of the sounds are analog.
douro20 8 months ago
cool
KaunisRoheline 2 years ago
THX for the hard work! The result is really stunning!
BrontoScorpioMusic 2 years ago
Is this how they made video game music back in olden times?
NemoFitzgerald 2 years ago
no words for th ebongo's : amazing demo
fuckingharpsichord 2 years ago
That machine looks like a cashier's wet dream.
filmmakingjoe 2 years ago
pea, my friend, you have the patience of, well, someone with patience. I'm off to play one of those damn video games.
jlesser 2 years ago
This sounds great, I thought my JSQ-60 was an old school sequencer but this takes it to the next level.
I find that I can step sequence a whole track on the JSQ but I normally do a loop make a rough version on the computer and then reverse engineer it back onto the hardware sequencer so for those guys who actually just out and out made a whole track on these things big respect because it's hard work.
snolan1990 2 years ago
Very good! Great job!
030303acid 2 years ago
ace! thanks!
walkerbelm 2 years ago
Ol school cool. Great vid.
theogore 2 years ago
I'm too spoiled by loops and programs that let you type in the notation. Composing something on a sequencer like this would take me all freaking year.
BiNate82 2 years ago
Very cool!
JohnLRice 2 years ago
brilliant video nice work. any chance of getting an mp3 of the track as recorded by you?
walkerbelm 2 years ago
@walkerbelm hi, i just posted a url to the mp3 in the video description.
peahix 2 years ago
thanks that is very kind of you!!!!
walkerbelm 2 years ago
@peahix thanks!!!!
walkerbelm 1 year ago