[rodgersorgan] Re: Electronic substitutes



Maybe this will help:

The term "sequencer" came from the early days of synthesis, where you had a
device that would put a number of events into a "sequence". It was 10 or 15
or so events, and those events could be programed to be pitch, timber, or
whatever sequences. It operated much like a police scanner radio, where one
event would trigger, then it would stop and the one next to it would go on,
then it would stop and the following event would trigger, etc. so therefore,
you had a real "sequencer". The term today is loosley carried over from
those "good-ol-days" and they really should be called Midi Recorders.

My 2 cents.

Keith
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>
> Noel Heinze wrote:
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> "Will someone explain to me why it's called a sequencer?  What does it
sequence?"
>
> A synthesizer is a device that creates sounds (both imitative and
abstract.)  A sequencer is a device for recording and replaying MIDI data
(usually in multi-track format) allowing compositions to be built up a part
at a time.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Clay
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