The Kawai Q-80 by Kawai Musical Instruments in 1989,^[1] is a music sequencer that has a built in 2DD floppy disk drive for storage. It allows playback, editing, and recording via its MIDI connections. There is a battery backup to hold the configuration when the unit is powered down. The tempo can be set from 40-250 beats per minute.

Active quantisation

Only corrects the notes that are completely out of time with the rest of the track, for a more natural feel and less robotic to the performance.

Connections

• MIDI in, out and Thru.
• Tape sync in and out
• Metronome
• Footswitch input

Storage

Using the units internal S-RAM the Q-80 can hold;

• A total of 26,000 notes,^[2] this consists of 10 songs (up to 32 tracks, 15,000 notes per track)
• 100 motifs per song (similar to a pattern in a drum machine)