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Music sequencer#leading2

“ In digital audio recording, a sequencer is a program in a computer or stand-alone keyboard unit that puts together a sound sequence from a series (or sequence) of Musical Instrument Digital Interface ( MIDI ) events (operations). The MIDI sequencer allows the user to record and edit a musical performance without using an audio-based input source. The performance is recorded as a series of events that would ordinarily be played in from a keyboard instrument. The MIDI sequencer does not record the actual audio, but rather the events related to the performance - what note was played at what time, how hard the key was pressed, when the sustain pedal was depressed, and so forth. This data is then played back into a MIDI instrument or sound module.

Using this method, the performer can select (for example) a piano sound for a musical passage and later decide that the passage would work better as an organ sound. The editor can simply change the sound program on the MIDI keyboard to alter the sound without needing to rerecord the entire performance.

Using sound modules and keyboards that can respond on different MIDI channels, the player can layer the sounds of different instruments to create the illusion of an entire band or orchestra. There is sequencing software available in a range from that which would suit a beginner all the way to the most advanced film composer.

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Music sequencer#Overview

Modern sequencers

1980s typical software sequencer platform, using Atari Mega ST computer.

Today's typical software sequencer, supporting multitrack audio (DAW) and plug-ins (Steinberg Cubase 6)

User interface on Steinberg Cubase v6.0, a digital audio workstation with an integrated software sequencer.

See also: § Software sequencers, Audio sequencer, Digital audio workstation, and Audio plug-in

With the advent of the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI), and particularly the Atari ST home computer in the 1980s, programmers were able to write software that could record and play back the notes played by a musician. Unlike the early sequencers used to play mechanical sounding sequence with exactly equal length, the new ones recorded and played back expressive performances by real musicians. These were typically used to control external synthesizers, especially rackmounted sound modules, as it was no longer necessary for each synthesizer to have its own keyboard.

As the technology matured, sequencers gained more features, and integrated the ability to record multitrack audio. Sequencers mainly used for audio are often called digital audio workstations (or DAWs).

Many modern sequencers can also control virtual instruments implemented as software plug-ins, allowing musicians to replace separate synthesizers with software equivalents.

Today the term "sequencer" is often used to describe software. However, hardware sequencers still exist. Workstation keyboards have their own proprietary built-in MIDI sequencers. Drum machines and some older synthesizers have their own step sequencer built in. There are still also standalone hardware MIDI sequencers, although the market demand for those has diminished greatly due to the greater feature set of their software counterparts.

Music sequencer#Types of music sequencers

⇓ Means  /  Inst.⇒						acoustic inst	electronic inst
mechanical
	pin or hole
	punched paper & pneumatic
	optical
	electric
		analog
			electronic
			CV/Gate
		digital
			proprietary
			MIDI
				numeric
				analog
				step
				realtime
			software
				MIDI (internal)
					score
					piano roll
				automation
					strip chart
				audio
					loop
					beat slice
					pitch & timing
					spectrum

cat1	cat2	mechanical	pneumatic		electric	electronic	CV/Gate	MIDI		Analog	Step	Realtime		Numeric	Score	Piano roll	Strip chart	Loop	Beat slice	Pitch & Timing
Mechanical
	Rotating object	o	o
	Punched paper	o	o	o	o
	Sound-on-film			o	o
Analog (style)
	Electro mechanical			o	o
	CV/Gate					o
	MIDI						o
Digital
	CV/Gate					o			o	o	o		o
	Proprietary I/F
	Step
	MIDI
Software

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Italian mandolin virtuoso and child prodigy Giuseppe Pettine (here pictured in 1898)

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brought the Italian playing style to America where he settled in Providence, Rhode Island, as a mandolin teacher and composer. Pettine is credited with promoting a style where "one player plays both the rhythmic chords and the lyric melodic line at once, combining single strokes and tremolo."

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