+1000 for any form of clock functionality.
I am aware the SQ has no RTC hardware, but that in no way means this can’t be implemented.
It shouldn’t be too complicated to develop a software process loop which sleep()s for one second then increments an integer containing a standard UNIX timestamp. There would quite likely be some drift without a stable clock source but it would be much, much better than nothing. Adding an NTP client would be icing on the cake for all the SQs which are already network connected, but having to adjust the clock once per startup isn’t really a deal-breaker in many SQ applications. It would be a very small price to pay to be able to see the time in the corner of the touchscreen, and users who don’t care can opt not to use it; I‘d imagine it wouldn’t appear until set.
Failing that – take a cue from my old Korg synthesiser (which also doesn’t have any real-time clock). In the utilities menu you can enter in a date/time that’s only used for saving files; it even remembers the last entry for next time. While it’s a pain to update it every time I save, it certainly helps with organising files later.
I would very much welcome the Allen & Heath staff giving this feature some further thought.
