17 Jul 2017
PSQ was a hard one for me to get my head around, too. It took me a long time to warm up to it, and I was one of the beta testers. I admit the numbers 1-96 are a bit quirky, as are some of the other parts of this device. But it is a great device and it's capable of creating some far out and amazing sounds, which I never would have thought of on my own. It's filled in the gaps of some of my music numerous times, and given me a lot of new musical ideas, when I was drawing a blank..
I mostly use this via the sequencer outputs to create some really weird sounds in various synths. It's also good for making some bizarre percussive/drum fills. I haven't had much luck using it for melodies or main drum beats. It's more like different spices you put into your potatoes, not so much the potatoes themselves.
What I would suggest is making sure you are using the quantizer. Make sure the sequencer has a quantizer selected and make sure that quantizer is the same key as your song. Also, turn the rate knob (under the pulse pads, next to the run button) down. It is set to 1/16 by default and I find that way too fast, sometimes.
Click the little key button in the sequncer and randomize all rows. See what happens. Now start tweaking some of those knobs in the sequencer section. Go back to the sequencer and change the start and ending positions. Now go and change the actual note knobs of the sequencer rows/columns. Go and randomize all the pulses so you can get some different pulses driving your sequencer steps. Change the source from A1 to some other source. You should start to get a feel for what they all do by messing around with it in this manner.
The video(s) posted above are also helpful, but they are old, and PSQ has been updated drastically since the videos were made.