Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I have a few generative sequencers I've not had time to play with, and figured I'd compare how they...play. Three are generative in one form or another, and one, the Berlin School, is not. I leave you to suffer with that incongruity in silence.
This is my first exploration with each of them, so I'm just getting a feel for how they work. You're along for the ride, but don't expect too much.
VCO is Acid Rain Chainsaw. LPG is Rabid Elephant Natural Gate. No envelope. Delay here and there is Make Noise Mimeophon. Quantizer is 2hp Tune.
00:00 Intro
00:20 Feigen
12:00 Anima
23:29 Odds
31:34 Berlin School
I have a few generative sequencers I've not had time to play with, and figured I'd compare how they...play. Three are generative in one form or another, and one, the Berlin School, is not. I leave you to suffer with that incongruity in silence.
This is my first exploration with each of them, so I'm just getting a feel for how they work. You're along for the ride, but don't expect too much.
VCO is Acid Rain Chainsaw. LPG is Rabid Elephant Natural Gate. No envelope. Delay here and there is Make Noise Mimeophon. Quantizer is 2hp Tune.
00:00 Intro
00:20 Feigen
12:00 Anima
23:29 Odds
31:34 Berlin School








![SEM filter comparison 2
Its been a minute since my first SEM filter comparison (link above/below), and a few new SEM filters have come out since then that I found irresistable.
This comparison is low pass only. It would take far too long to compare (in what I view as a useful way) every output and mode, so this is it for now.
In theory theyre all based on the SEM circuitry, but some do have alterations. Im less concerned with purity or adherence to the original sound as I am with how good they sound period.
[Note: the E430 was originally on a power supply that it didnt like, or didnt like it, or had a module on the same power bar that wasnt cooperating. Youll hear a weird delay, which as it turns out was power related. Theres an addendum at the end with the E430 by itself on good power so you can hear it properly.]
Source VCO is an Acid Rain chainsaw. Envelope is Zadar. Sequencer is
Pittsburgh Modular microSequence.
00:00 Intro
00:20 Dry
02:57 Resonance
07:43 Input gain
15:57 Knobbage
18:48 E430 SEM filter comparison 2](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9uyWXy0NBZw/mqdefault.jpg)

