sound locks no. It’s not checked in the doc. Probably the CPU can’t handle fast switching.
It would’ve been cool though, at least to have diff synt preset per pattern. Like on MC 101
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Ah ok, that’s what you meant. ^^" yeah no just the regular ones.
With sounds not being able to lock, and the layout of the pcb it seems that those are different systems on different chips, reused from other products. That would explain some of the limitations… And limit the possibilities on future updates.
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Samples can be individually plocked for pitch and some other parameters, but filter is shared across all 7 samples.
Hm I guess that’s fine for me, I can resample it if I want to, only case where it really is a problem is if I would want to change the filter for different samples during a song, or want to play multiple samples at the same time with some unfiltered.
I can see that need, but it won’t be a workflow that’s affecting me.
Just tried the volca beats speaker again.
Oh well. It firing down doesn’t help it. And it lacking some Kompression and the kick being inaudible are not helping for it to sound horrendous.
But with stuff like piano keys or some pads I could se it working fine for crafting melodies and chord sequences. But not baselines. Or any more atmospheric stiff that depends on a sense for the reverb.
But EQ per sample, right?
I love to have that. There is not a lot of instruments that fill that gap. Sampling, resampling, FM and rompler is a quite big scope of sounds that you can achieve with a groove box. 
Same page. Is there any SEQTRAK owner who can confirm the visualizer processes external MIDI data, and perhaps can offer an opinion how nice it looks in the flesh? And I assume the only way to get the visuals on your display is to hook up the phone / tablet / computer that runs the SEQTRAK app?
I’d be willing to spend SEQTRAK level money on good visualizer hardware alone, something that accepts MIDI in (preferably a large number of ports, 3.5mm TRS to keep it compact) and generates HDMI (1080p is fine); bonus points if its controllable via CCs (MIDI learn) so you can control visualization parameters from any MIDI source or controller.
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At least one Android you can start it and fiddle around/work on presets and scenes without it. It just doesn’t receive data. (maybe somebody can check with a midi controller).
Both versions seem to be available immediately, now.
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this! i’d also be in the market for a hardware visualizer as you described it
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The OP-Z visualizer stuff is pretty powerful. They updated it a while ago to allow you to use your own video footage. It started out with just Unity and photo manipulation.
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Yep, mine is already shipped.
I’d think drums would be chromatically playable since it’s 11-part multitimbral, ie, each drum track has its own midi channel.
Drums are chromatically playable over midi, samples are not. I guess a workaround would be to load samples into drum slots, but I have not tried it yet.
Visualiser does not seem to respond to incoming midi notes sadly, I just tested it. @jeroen020
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This is super! You can definitely load your own (but only in drum slots). Confirmed with the dude who presented at Anderton’s.
Should be enough to put in some chord stabs or whatever…
Yay!
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Yes and you can record into sequencer too. I believe it had a few (5 or 6!) octaves of range.
Samples (in sample track) are only assigned to a note for each of the 7 sounds, so it is understandable given that each part has its own midi channel.
Edit: Also don’t forget each drum has its own filter, LFO, envelope, fx etc.
Edit2: In theory could use sampler track for drums (7) then use the 7 drum parts as synths playing melodies or whatnot.
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What resolution is the Visualizer? Could it be upscaled to a large screen?
This is brilliant, this make it something I’d seriously consider buying now!
Then I really really really hope that they add an option to set the note value for drums or play them chromatically!
I guess in the meantime a USB midi keyboard will do the trick.