Editing Music sequencer (section)

=== Music workstations ===
{{See also|Music workstation}}

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 | image1   = Synclavier1 JB.jpg| width1 = 116
 | caption1 = [[Synclavier]] I (1977)<!--, a product version of Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer (1973–1975) -->
 | image2   = Fairlight green screen.jpg| width2 = 148
 | caption2 = Fairlight CMI (1979)<!--, a successor of Quasar (1975–1977) --> {{nowrap|supporting MCL <!-- language (software --> {{smaller|(sequencer)}}}}
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In 1975, [[New England Digital]] (NED) released ABLE computer (microcomputer)<ref name=NEDhistory>
{{cite web
 |title       = Synclavier Early History
 |url         = http://www.500sound.com/synclavierhistory.html
 |publisher   = Synclavier European Services
 |url-status     = live
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20161114050731/http://www.500sound.com/synclavierhistory.html
 |archive-date = 2016-11-14
}}
</ref> as a dedicated data processing unit for Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer (1973), and based on it, later Synclavier series were developed.

The [[Synclavier I]], released in September 1977,<ref name=chadabe2001>
{{cite journal
 |last        = Chadabe
 |first       = Joel
 |date        = May 1, 2001
 |title       = The Electronic Century Part IV: The Seeds of the Future
 |url         = https://emusician.com/tutorials/electronic_century4/
 |journal     = Electronic Musician
 |quote       = In September 1977, I bought the first Synclavier...
 |url-status  = dead
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091002070017/http://emusician.com/tutorials/electronic_century4/
 |archive-date= October 2, 2009
}}
</ref>  was one of the earliest digital [[music workstation]] product with multitrack sequencer.  Synclavier series evolved throughout the late-1970s to the mid-1980s, and they also established integration of [[digital audio|digital-audio]] and music-sequencer, on their Direct-to-Disk option in 1984, and later Tapeless Studio system.

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 | image1   = Fairlight II Page R.png| width1 = 125
 | caption1 = Page R on Fairlight
}}

In 1982, renewed the [[Fairlight CMI]] Series II and added new sequencer software "Page R", which combined [[step sequencer|step sequencing]] with [[sampling (music)|sample]] playback.<ref name=AudioMedia1996>
{{cite magazine
 |title       = Fairlight – The Whole Story
 |url         = https://www.anerd.com/fairlight/fairlightstory.htm
 |magazine    = [[Audio Media (magazine)|Audio Media]]
 |issue       = January 1996
 |quote       = ''<!-- The first Fairlight CMI had been capable of recording a player's movements on keyboard and storing up to 50,000 notes, and it also contained something called MCL (Music Composition Language). However, MCL was criticised for being rather too complex and laborious for practical purposes. To resolve the problem, -->Fairlight launched the CMI Series II in 1982, which incorporated their now legendary Page R, the first serious music sequencer, which, according to Paine, "simply blew people away".''
 |url-status     = live
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20170504030342/http://www.anerd.com/fairlight/fairlightstory.htm
 |archive-date = 2017-05-04
}}
</ref>

While there were earlier microprocessor-based sequencers for digital polyphonic synthesizers,<ref group=note name=Microprocessor_based_sequencer_in_mid1970s>
In 1974–1975, Australian computer music engineer Tony Furse developed the MC6800-based [[Fairlight CMI#Details|Qasar M8]] with a software sequencer [[Fairlight CMI#MUSEQ 8|MUSEQ 8]], with a minimum price of $8,000. In 1976, it was licensed to [[Fairlight (company)|Fairlight Instruments Pty Ltd.]], and eventually Fairlight CMI was released in 1979 (for details, see [[Fairlight CMI]]).<br />
Also in 1975, [[New England Digital]] released original microprocessor-based [[Synclavier#Processor|ABLE computer]] (utilizing mini-computer architecture) as a future migration target of Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer. Their commercial version of digital synthesizer, [[Synclavier#Black panel models|Synclavier I]] was first shipped in 1977 (for details, see [[Synclavier]]).
</ref><!-- FALSEHOOD (both music & ASCII keyboard entries are supported): they were based on keyboard entry, and --> their early products tended to prefer the newer internal digital buses than the old-style analogue CV/gate interface once used on their prototype system. Then in the early-1980s, they also re-recognized the needs of [[CV/gate]] interface, and [[List of music sequencers#Proprietary digital interfaces (pre MIDI era)|supported it along with MIDI as options]].

==== In Japan ====
[[Yamaha Corporation|Yamaha]]'s GS-1, their first [[FM synthesis|FM]] [[digital synthesizer]], was released in 1980.<ref>
{{cite book
 | last      = Roads
 | first     = Curtis
 | year      = 1996
 | title     = The computer music tutorial
 | url       = https://books.google.com/books?id=nZ-TetwzVcIC&pg=PA226
 | publisher = [[MIT Press]]
 | page      = 226
 | isbn      = 0-262-68082-3
 | access-date= 2011-06-05
}}</ref> To program the synthesizer, Yamaha built a custom computer workstation {{citation needed span|designed to be used as a sequencer for the GS-1|date=September 2017}}{{failed verification|date=September 2017}}. It was only available at Yamaha's headquarters in Japan ([[Hamamatsu]]) and the United States ([[Buena Park, California]]).{{citation needed|date=September 2018}}