SEQUENCER LOVE

Even computer lovin' laptoprockers like us, at times can't resist to hook up some old gear and dream away at the sound of those classic machines. Sometimes hardware machines are hard to beat when it comes to hands on control and instant access to just that parameter that makes the difference. With that idea in the back of our minds and convinced there would still be people making cool gear we did some web research. It turned out a company genoQs Machines was just a few clicks away. Meet Gabriel Seher, the man behind Octopus and the new Nemo - genoQs' MIDI sequencers.

Given the fairly limited market for devices like yours, why would someone want to develop one?

"Octopus was born from our desire to build our dream sequencer. Some things were clear from the beginning: it had to be hardware, very interactive in nature, an easily accessible control model, and highly capable. It should feel like playing an exciting instrument, require little effort to learn at first, yet offer appropriate complexity, as needed, and guide creativity as oppose to either constraining it, or allow it to drown in limitless possibilities.

So conceptually, we started with "simple" and established concepts, and built our operating model to allow those concepts to be combined in not yet seen ways, and finally create something unique.

"The reactions to the results of that work finally started the serious discussion about going to market, at this relatively late point in time in the lifecycle of Octopus. Unusual as it is, this may explain why today there is virtually no compromise in any aspect of the machine."

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