Hi Brickboo,
it has a fairly easy sequencer to use.
Easy Record, where you just press the record button and play away.
Realtime Record
Step Record
It's different to the korg, though.
It also has extensive onboard editing including drum and piano roll editors as well as well as its normal editing screen.
It functions like insert & delete bars, clear bars, change velocity of a track, note change etc etc
Has a user drum where you can edit/create your own drum set.
Extensive sound editing.
Great tools for creating your own composer patterns including seq to style. ( midifile to style function) I've personally used this function for converting styles from midifiles.
Easy composer, where you scroll through style parts to create new variations for styles.
etc etc
Don't forget to check out the pads.
Pads 1to4 have 2 tracks. Pads 5 & 6 only have 1 track, but it has a chord progression track. Great for adding a bit of variety within a song.
Also has onboard "Pad" creating facilities includ seq to pad function. In short, create a pad from a midile.

The only thing you might not get to see , is the kn7's audio functions.( Ability to play mp3's from sd card) To do this you need the Panasonic PC SD Audio Writing Kit ( optional extra comprising sd card reader & juke box software)
It's handy, as anything that can be recorded via the kn7's audio input, can be recorded saved as an audio file and converted to mp3 for use on the sd card

My salesman here in Sydney didn't know the first thing about the audio functions on the kn's, hopefully by now, they understand it a bit more about it.

YOu won't find much mention of it in the normal kn7 manual.

Also there's the KN7 website where you can download the hundreds of prior kn styles. kn2, 3,5,6's for free. They've been tweaked to work on the kn7 only.

best wishes
Rikki

p.s. don't forget there's an actual technics forum as well on Synthzone.
Sorry for sprouting, no use doing it on the Technics forum as the kn7 owners are already aware of this machines potential ( haahaa)

[QUOTE]Originally posted by brickboo:
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Maybe not if the sequencer sucks. I didn't have time to look very hard at that function.
Styles, sounds ease of operation, it wins hands down. I'll check the manual and the keyboard itself for the sequencing when I go back.



[This message has been edited by rikkisbears (edited 10-08-2003).]