During Eythór Gunnarsson's performance on July 12, 1986, at the North Sea Jazz Festival, he used a Roland MSQ-700 audio sequencer. This is evidenced by a user-uploaded photo.

"Two other bits of MIDI gear that I've bought recently are the Roland MSQ700 and TR909 (both reviewed in E&MM April). The MSQ is really good. Its' MIDI sequencing potential is very wide, but one reason why I've been able to use it so fully so early is that I seem to be getting better at understanding Roland's manuals. Either they're writing them better or I'm just getting the hang of them."

"My normal procedure is to put a code from my MSQ700 onto my A8 through my Seck desk (they're really brilliant — only about an inch thick, and light). I have thought about getting a Fostex B16, but that would only have meant getting a mega-desk. A nice clean simple desk, simple routing, and I've got my rack system in order. I used to have two Roland SDE3000s, but I never used them to their full capacity, and they had no sampling, which is why I swapped to Korg SDD1000s, with 2 seconds of delay, and proper triggerable sampling. I always get pairs of things because I'm a stereo fanatic."

'We used our own keyboards, a Jupiter 8, Yamaha DX7 and a Juno 60, linked up to an MSQ700 using Roland's MD8 converter, which lets you use MIDI keyboards with DCB ones. Apart from that, there was nothing really special at all.'

"Take for instance the MSQ700, the Roland sequencer we used a couple of times with Level 42. It gives a different feeling to each note, depending on how long you've been holding this or that key, even if you quantise. On top of that, it takes somebody to create a part, so even if you step write, it's still human."

It turns out George now numbers amongst the growing ranks of the QX1 following, though the hi-tech Yamaha sequencer wasn't used in the recording of the LP, being a recent replacement for the Roland MSQ700 the band used on both singles. And regardless of his enthusiasm for his new toy, George has obvious reservations about it.

"We only used the Oberheim a little, and the DSX sequencer hardly at all. I usually use the CSQ600 sequencer for bass lines, but recently I've been using the Roland MSQ700 as well, and of course that's much more versatile."

"On most of the album we used the MSQ700. I haven't had time yet to get to grips with the sequencer in the Emulator. The only thing that bothers me is that there appears to be no step time programming on it. Obviously I prefer real time, but there are times when I want it to be so precise that I'll actually sit down and programme it in step time. Again, with the CZ5000, unless you have some idea of notation, you're going to be up shit creek because the display is in notation. So unless you know the difference between a semiquaver and a demi-semi-quaver you haven't even got a look in. But anyway Pat actually played most of the sequences except for really simple repetitive things. That way we got them right after about three takes instead of spending about 10 hours programming the things."

Keff showcasing and demoing his Roland MSQ 700 Sequencer on what he used to create the 1987 Doctor Who Theme.

In this article Andrzej Korzyński mentions using MSQ-700 sequencer, for example to music to "Na srebrnym globie" film.

Colin Thurston's Home Studio Equipment List SOUNDCRAFT Series 1600 console. FOSTEX B16 with built-in noise reduction. ROLAND MSQ700 sequencer. YAMAHA R1000 digital reverbs (two). DBX160X limiter. LEXICON PCM41 digital processor. ROLAND 555 tape chorus/echo. ACCESSIT noise gates. REVOX A77 stereo reel-to-reel. YAMAHA NS10M speakers. SONY PCM F1 digital recorder for mixdown. SONY cassette machines. SONY compact disc player. SIMMONS electronic drum kit. LINN DRUM. E-MU Drumulator. ROLAND Juno 106 polysynth. ROLAND Jupiter 6 polysynth. SIMMONS Clap Trap. ELECTRO-HARMONIX Instant Replay ...plus upright piano and numerous guitars.

"When I get my proper equipment set up, I'm going to give her my old Roland MSQ700 and my Jupiter", says Leer, obviously in a generous mood. "Then we can both write at home and just bring the sequencers in."