the Sequencer

Everyone likes a decent sequencer onboard their synths, but not all sequencers are created equal and many don’t offer adequate functionality. The SE-02, however sports an excellent sequencer with plenty of versatility. The only real downside is that it’s limited to 16 steps – but with its versatile features, you can get some continually evolving results happening. You can lock one parameter to each step, change the first/last step for different feels and fills, change the scale, add shuffle, mute notes in and out, change gate time, add glide, change the direction of play (forwards/backwards/forwards-backwards/random) and you can key-trigger and key-transpose your sequence on the fly (using the K-25M keyboard only currently, not over MIDI). Also you can store 128 sequencer patterns onboard and build 16-part songs from them, with 16 songs in total available onboard. It’s basically an MPC-style song mode where you insert patterns into your song and tell the SE-02 how many times you want those patterns to repeat. Once again, I’d love some of these features on my JD-XA. Finally, let’s not forget that the sequencer sends out MIDI and there’s per-step trigger out too.