Back and Forth (dawless jam using Yamaha QX21, Alesis SR-16, Behringer Crave, and Korg Monologue)

I recently acquired one of those "Yamaha Black Boxes", namely a QX21 hardware sequencer, and had some fun programming it to play a whole song using my Korg Monologue (lead) and Behringer Crave (bass). My trusty Alesis SR-16 provides the drums and is played by its own on-board sequencer, taking the clock signal from the QX21.
I have read a lot about how frustrating it can be to program a QX21 but I found it quite rewarding. Of course you don't get the visual copy-and-paste and note-bynote editing we are used to but there's a certain carft and physicality to assembling a song using one of these devices that you don't get elsewhere. And you can actually do a lot more than some people assume, you just have to find the way to achieve it (tip: reading the manual, being inventive, and lots of three-way swaps between Track 1, Track 2 and the Buffer helps).
For this song I entered the bass sequence step-by-step while the lead was recorded in real time, then split into chunks that I quantised individually (since some bits worked better with different units of quantisation than others). And yes, you can do all that using just the QX21 if you are working with a single sequence at a time (while I was working on one sequence, I stored the other one to my mobile phone using a 2-way MIDI to USB-C cable and a SysEx dump app).
Composed, arranged, performed, and recorded by Telantas Changxo.
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