Kawai Q-80


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

Using the units internal S-RAM the Q-80 can hold;