In the field of electronic music, a sequencer was traditionally a device or piece of software that allows the user to record, play back and edit musical patterns. This usually did not include the ability to record audio, only the control information for synthesizers to recreate the composition. As most sequencers now feature audio editing and processing capabilities, the line has been blurred with digital audio workstations such that the terms are often used interchangeably. Though the term 'sequencer' is today used primarily for software, some hardware synthesizers and almost all music workstations include a built-in MIDI sequencer, while drum machines generally have a step sequencer built in. There are still also standalone hardware MIDI sequencers, though the market demand for those has diminished greatly in the last ten years. It has been suggested that Electronica be merged into this article or section. ... Synthesizer as used in music, is a term derived from a Greek word syntithetai < synthesis (συντίθεται < σύνθεσις) and is used to describe a device capable of generating and/or manipulating electronic signals for use in music creation, recording and performance. ... A digital audio workstation (DAW) is a system designed to record, edit and play back digital audio. ... Synthesizer as used in music, is a term derived from a Greek word syntithetai < synthesis (συντίθεται < σύνθεσις) and is used to describe a device capable of generating and/or manipulating electronic signals for use in music creation, recording and performance. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ... A Boss DR-202 Drum Machine A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. ...

Many sequencers have features for limited music notation, and most are able to show music in a piano roll notation. (For software designed specifically for music notation, see scorewriter.) Music notation is a system of writing for music. ... It has been suggested that Music roll be merged into this article or section. ... A scorewriter, or music notation program, is software used to automate the task of writing and engraving sheet music. ...

Music can also be sequenced using trackers such as ModPlug Tracker, and some of those are able to sequence MIDI events too. ModPlug Tracker in Fast Tracker 2 colors mode Tracker is the generic term for a class of software music sequencers which, in their purest form, allow the user to arrange sound samples stepwise on a timeline across several monophonic channels. ... Modplug Tracker ModPlug Tracker is a tracker for Windows developed by Olivier Lapicque. ...

History

Early analog music sequencers used a control voltage/trigger interface, but were replaced by digital hardware- or software-based MIDI sequencers, which play back MIDI events and MIDI control information at a specified number of beats per minute. CV/Gate (an abbreviation of Control Voltage/Gate) was an early system to have synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines control one another. ... Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ...

As computer speeds increased in the 1990s, audio recording, audio editing, and sample triggering features were added to the software. Software so enhanced is called a digital audio workstation (DAW) to distinguish from sequencers and multitrack recording programs. DAWs almost always include sequencing features but, strictly speaking, go beyond what a sequencer is. A digital audio workstation (DAW) is a system designed to record, edit and play back digital audio. ... The Tascam 85 16B analogue tape recorder can record 16 tracks of audio on 1 inch (2. ...

Step sequencers

A special case of sequencers are step sequencers. Instead of recording played notes or drawing notes by hand on the piano roll, the user composes patterns using a grid of (usually) 16 buttons, or steps, each step being 1/16th of a measure. Step sequencer patterns are monophonic by nature, but usually a single pattern may contain individual subpatterns for a number of different instruments. These patterns are then chained together to form longer compositions. Step sequencers are mostly used in drum machines and grooveboxes. In musical terminology, a bar or measure is a segment of time defined as a given number of beats of a given duration. ... A Boss DR-202 Drum Machine A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. ... The term Groovebox was originally used by Roland corporation to refer to their MC-303, but is now in more general use. ...

List of software sequencers / DAWs with sequencing features

Cakewalk's Home Studio 2002.

Steinberg's Cubase VST.

For a list of trackers, see the tracker article.
Also see: List of MIDI editors and sequencers. Cakewalk Home Studio 2002  ©  This image is copyrighted. ... Cakewalk Home Studio 2002  ©  This image is copyrighted. ... ÊCakewalk is a company based in Boston, Massachusetts that develops music [[interchange of projects between SONAR and other competing recording/editing software (e. ... Image File history File links Cubase_screenshot. ... Image File history File links Cubase_screenshot. ... Steinberg is a German musical equipment and software company. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... ModPlug Tracker in Fast Tracker 2 colors mode Tracker is the generic term for a class of software music sequencers which, in their purest form, allow the user to arrange sound samples stepwise on a timeline across several monophonic channels. ... A list of MIDI editors and sequencers. ...

Commercial Sequencers:

• Acid and Cinescore from Sony
• Cubase and Nuendo from Steinberg
• Digital Performer and AudioDesk from MOTU
• FL Studio from Image Line Software
• Live from Ableton
• Logic Pro, Logic Express and Garage Band from Apple
• Pro Tools from Digidesign
• Reason from Propellerhead
• Samplitude, Sequoia, Music Maker and Music Studio from Magix
• SAWStudio from RML Labs [1]
• Sonar, Project5 and Home Studio from Cakewalk
• Storm from Arturia
• Tracktion from Mackie

Open Source Sequencers: Sony ACID Pro (formerly called ACID Music) is the name of the loop-based music production software originally published by Sonic Foundry that is now owned and run by Sony. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Nuendo is Steinbergs media production suite with audio and MIDI capabilities. ... Steinberg is a German musical equipment and software company. ... Digital Performer is a full-featured Digital Audio Workstation/Sequencer software package published by Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) of Cambridge, Massachusetts for the Apple Macintosh platform. ... AudioDesk is an audio workstation application by Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) for the Mac OS. It is a multi-track recording, editing, and mixing application, with both offline file-based processing and realtime effects. ... FL Studio (formerly Fruity Loops) is a digital audio workstation, developed by Didier Dambrin (also known as Gol), lead programmer of Image-Line Software. ... Ableton Live is a loop-based software music sequencer for Macintosh and Windows by Ableton. ... Ableton Live is a loop-based software music sequencer for Macintosh and Windows. ... Logic Pro is a MIDI sequencer and Digital Audio Workstation software application that runs on the Mac OS X platform. ... Logic Express is a cut-down version of Logic Pro, a MIDI sequencer and digital audio workstation software application maintained by Apple that runs on the Mac OS X platform. ... The term garage band has several meanings, all related in someway to music. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Reason is a popular music software program developed by Swedish software developers Propellerhead Software. ... Binomial name Sequoia sempervirens (D. Don) Endl. ... Cakewalk Sonar is a computer program made by Cakewalk for recording, editing, mixing, mastering and outputting music and other audio. ... ÊCakewalk is a company based in Boston, Massachusetts that develops music [[interchange of projects between SONAR and other competing recording/editing software (e. ... Tracktion is a digital audio workstation for recording and editing audio and MIDI. [edit] History First released in 2002 by UK-based Raw Material Software (it was the creation of one designer/programmer: Julian Storer), Tracktion looks and feels quite different from the many other similar-looking audio sequencers by...

• Jazz++ [2]
• LMMS [3]
• MusE
• Rosegarden
• Seq24 [4]
• Hydrogen

LMMS aims to be a free (licensed under GPL), Linux based alternative to popular (but commercial and closed-source) programs like FruityLoops, Cubase and Logic Pro. ... In Greek mythology, the Muses (Greek , Mousai: perhaps from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- think[1]) are a number of goddesses or spirits who embody the arts and inspire the creation process with their graces through remembered and improvised song and stage, writing, traditional music and dance. ... Rosegarden is a free software digital audio workstation program developed for GNU/Linux with ALSA and KDE. It acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool. ... Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine created by Alessandro Cominu, an Italian programmer who goes by the pseudonym Comix. ...

Hardware music sequencers

A list of hardware sequencers and synthesizers, grooveboxes and drum machines that contain a sequencer in alphabetical order (and by no means exhaustive):

• AKAI MPC series
• Alesis MMT-8
• Clavivox, keyboard synth patented in 1956 by Raymond Scott
• Doepfer MAQ 16-3
• Doepfer Schaltwerk
• Doepfer Regelwerk
• Ensoniq ASR-10
• Ensoniq ESQ-1
• Ensoniq EPS-16
• Fairlight CMI
• Frostwave Fat Controller
• genoQs Octopus
• Infection Music Phaedra
• Infection Music Zeit
• Latronic Notron
• Kawai Q-80
• Korg SQ-8
• Korg SQD-1
• Korg SQD-8
• Manikin Schrittmacher
• Moog 960 Sequential Controller -- part of the Moog modular synthesizer system, and possibly the earliest sequencer.
• Radikal Technologies Spectralis
• RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer (Victor). Room-filling device built in 1957 for a half-million dollars. Included a 4-polyphony synth with 12 oscillators, a sequencer fed with paper tape, and a shellac record lathe for output.
• Roland MC-4
• Roland MC-8
• Roland MC-300
• Roland MC-303
• Roland MC-327
• Roland MC-50
• Roland MC-50 Mk2
• Roland MC-500 Microcomposer
• Roland MC-505
• Roland MC-808
• Roland MC-909
• Roland MV-30
• Roland MV-8000
• Roland SB-55
• Roland TB-303
• Sequential Circuits PolySequencer
• Sequentix P3
• Yamaha PSR-3000
• Yamaha QX1
• Yamaha QX3
• Yamaha QX5
• Yamaha QX7
• Yamaha QX21
• Yamaha QY10
• Yamaha QY300
• Yamaha QY700
• Yamaha QY100
• Yamaha RM1x
• Yamaha RS7000
• Zyklus MPS

woooo look at me i wrote a wikiedia artcle ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Raymond Scott, 1937 Raymond Scott (born Harry Warnow, September 10, 1908 – February 8, 1994), was an American composer, orchestra leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and electronic instrument inventor. ... Ensoniq ESQ-1 is a hybrid digital-analog synthesizer released by Ensoniq in 1986. ... The Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument) was the first digital sampling synthesizer. ... Notron Mark 1 Notron Mark 1 detail The Notron is a fantastically cult British-designed MIDI step sequencer used by Björk, Howie B etc. ... The term Moog(pronounced // as in moan) synthesizer can refer to any number of analog synthesizers designed by Dr. Robert Moog or manufactured by Moog Music, and is commonly used as a generic term for analog and digital music synthesisers. ... Moog modular synthesizer refers to any of a number of monophonic analog modular synthesizers designed by the late electronic instrument pioneer Dr. Robert Moog and manufactured by R.A Moog Co. ... RCA Mark II with Babbit, Mauzey, Ussachevsky The RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer (nicknamed Victor) was the flagship piece of equipment at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. ... Roland MC-303 Not to be confused with the MC series of MicroComposers by Roland, the MC-303 is the first of a series of synthesizer/drum machine/Sequencer combo instruments by Roland. ... The Roland Corporation MC-505 is a combination of MIDI Music sequencer, Synthesizer, Drum machine and control surface. ... MC-808 The Roland MC-808 is Rolands latest Groovebox released in 2006. ... An MC-909 groovebox. ... The Roland TB-303 Bass Line is a synthesizer with built-in sequencer manufactured by the Roland corporation in 1982 and 1983 that had a defining role in the development of contemporary electronic music. ... The Yamaha PSR-3000 is a music workstation Produced by YAMAHA. Its a predecessor of YAMAHA MOTIF. Its a semi professional workstation. ... The Yamaha QY10 is a hand-held Music workstation produced by the Yamaha Corporation in the early 1990s. ... The Yamaha RM1x was a MIDI-controlled synthesizer and sequencer, manufactured by Yamaha from the mid to late 1990s. ...

External links

• Early Roland sequencers (1977–1984)
• Early sequencer controllers from the Vintage Synth Explorer
• Music tech author Keith Gemmell examines the sequencer in some of its many guises
• The sequencer comparison chart