Behringer BQ-10 Analog Sequencer Leak – Looks Like The Korg SQ-10!
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Behringer appears to be readying the BQ-10, a clone of the classic Korg SQ-10 analogue sequencer. And from the looks of it, it has a number of additional features.
Behringer BQ-10
Another day, another Behringer product story. Except this time it didn’t come from the company itself but as a leak on the internet. Website Matrixsynth posted a few tantalizing shots of the new product with almost no context. Let’s take a look at what’s going on in the photos and see what we can suss out.
Behringer BQ-10
Korg SQ-10 Remake?
First off, given the name and knob placement, the Behringer BQ-10 is most likely a remake of Korg’s 1978 SQ-10 analogue sequencer. Part of the MS-20 ecosystem, it offered three lanes of voltage control with up to 12 steps per lane.
Korg SQ-10
The first clear difference in the Behringer BQ-10, however, is that it has eight knobs across, indicating that it will be eight steps and not 12 per lane. The original also intended the third C lane of knobs to control a VCF or VCA, or note length of lanes A and B. The BQ-10 seems to have made lane C identical to A and B, giving users a total of 24 note steps, the same as the original.
Also new is the ability to switch between different voltage settings, including Korg’s unusual Hz/V. Much like on Korg’s later SQ-1, this makes it available to use with Eurorack and other non-Korg (or Yamaha) vintage gear. Given that it’s intended to use with Eurorack – it has the same form factor as many of the company’s other instruments – it offers sync patch points, a sync source switch, and sync divider.
Controls Ported From The Original
Controls ported over from the original appear to be start/stop and step buttons, voltage controlled clock generator, multiple sequence modes, two portamento knobs plus a duty cycle adjuster, as well as a comprehensive trigger processor section. As with other Behringer products with this same form factor, it also has MIDI in and out.
Behringer BQ-10
As this is a leak and not an official announcement, we don’t know when the Behringer BQ-10 will be released – or indeed if ever. Although given that the unit appears to be fairly far along in the production cycle, we would be surprised if it didn’t get released at some point.
No word on if or when someone is going to clean up that storeroom though.
More information:
- Behringer BQ-10: Matrixsynth
- Korg SQ-10: Wikipedia
- Behringer BQ-10: Matrixsynth
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3 responses to “Behringer BQ-10 Analog Sequencer Leak – Looks Like The Korg SQ-10!”
I own a SQ-1 and that new SQ they did recently, would love to get this one from Behringer to add…can never have too many sequencers.
It’s a combination of the SQ10 and the MS-02 interface. The interface was a seperate product that made it possible to use 1v/oct synthesizers like moog and roland with the SQ10. This is needed because the MS20 used a different system for voltage control. To use it you need to tune and scale the log or antilog amp. Not much fun, a quantiser in software would have been much more useful.
can’t wait to test run this one