The Sequencer

What is it?

In the last few years, the term “sequencer” has come to mean “fancy MIDI recording and editing”, such as you might find in Cubase, Logic, or any one of a number of programs.

For musicians familiar with “groove boxes” or drum machines, “sequencer” usually means something that lets you create a series of short patterns and then string them together to create a song.

But back in days of yore, a sequencer was a box with a bunch of knobs in a row that sent out CV (control voltage) values one after another. This is what old-school synth people think of when they talk about a sequencer, and that is how Evolver’s sequencer works.

Evolver’s sequencer is not going to let you record or edit MIDI data in any extensive fashion — though it can, in a very limited way, behave like this. And Evolver’s sequencer cannot be used to create songs from individual sequences, though there is a way to “fake it” during live playback.

Back in the old days, it was much more difficult to insert rests or vary clock speed and note length, which is why so many synthesizer recordings from the 60s- 80s have sequences consisting of nothing but endlessly repeating 8th notes or 16th notes.

It was too hard to do anything else!

So what is Evolver’s sequencer? And what use is it?

Evolver’s sequencer is really a table of values, which is read, um “sequentially” (hence the name) at a rate determined by the sequence tempo and the clock divide setting.

The table’s values can be assigned to control a variety of Evolver’s parameters. The sequencer’s rhythmic, repeating changes are another key component in Evolver’s unique character.

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