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Music sequencer#Overview
Modern sequencers
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."[2] |
Italian mandolin virtuoso and child prodigy Giuseppe Pettine (here pictured in 1898)
| 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."[2] |
Italian mandolin virtuoso and child prodigy Giuseppe Pettine (here pictured in 1898) {{read more top|expand=no|header top=-1.5ex|body top=-0.75ex}} 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."[2] {{read more bottom}}
Italian mandolin virtuoso and child prodigy Giuseppe Pettine (here pictured in 1898)
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