I’m on the lookout for a high quality synth with both keys and a built in sequencer. On my radar is obviously the A4 keys and something from DSI/sequential. What else should I be looking at?
Digitone Keys too obvs.
How do you want to define flagship ?
Behringer Poly D
Iridium has a sequencer
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Good question. Something that feels premium quality to use and sounds great (obviously subjective).
Basically, I want to pretend I’m Thom Yorke.
Moog Muse
The new Roland Juno D series has 8 track sequencers, they sound good ( ZEN-Core ), large color display, mic input ( with auto-pitch and vocoder ), extensive arp and chord mode, sample playing ( WAV files ), phrase pads, and they won’t break the bank.
Flagship often can mean expensive.
Loopop Video :
There are lots of options really.
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It does, but it’s only monophonic unfortunately. Just in case polyphony is a requirement for the OP 
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The Roland Fantom has a pretty powerful sequencer. You can seamlessly switch back and forth between real time recording, step recoding and TR recording. Patterns can be up to 64 bars long, it has piano roll and event list editors plus automation can also be easily sequenced and subsequently edited.
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Melbourne Instruments Delia (Polyphonic Sequencer)
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UDO Super 6/8
Less expensive : Arturia Minifreak.
No real sequencer there, though there are a few user oscs that kind of cheat (but not really).
A nice arpeggiator, but no sequencer.
Why Korg didn’t bother to put the XD’s sequencer in the Prologue is anybody’s guess.
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Thanks for the info, I really thought it was on it as the Minis have it. Edited my post.
Yeah, it would be nice if it even had that simple 16 step sequencer with motion lanes, but it doesn’t.
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Polybrute / Polybrute 12 have a pretty functional sequencer and an interesting arp / sequencer hybrid. Not as deep / complete as the Elektron’s or some of the other options listed above, but very immediate and fun to use. I typically create sequences on the fly and then send them to my Hapax when I want to keep them for later use (you can save sequences w/patches too, of course).
