Editing Music sequencer (section)

=== Audio sequencer ===
Alternative subsets of audio sequencers include:
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|[[Image:Ardour-screenshot-big (tracks, mixer, x-fade - brighten).jpg|left|120px|A typica DAW ([[Ardour (software)|Ardour]])]]<!-- [[Image:Cubase6 main audio tracks.png|left|120px|A typical DAW (on [[Steinberg Cubase]])]] -->
<!-- | -->{{block indent |left=0.5|1=[[Digital audio workstation]] (DAW), [[hard disk recorder]] — a class of audio software or dedicated system primarily designed to record, edit, and play back [[digital audio]], first appeared in the late 1970s and emerging since the 1990s. After the 1990s–2000s, several DAWs for music production were integrated with music sequencer.

In today, "''DAW integrated with [[MIDI]] sequencer''" is often simply abbreviated as "DAW", or sometimes referred as "''Audio and MIDI sequencer''",<ref>
{{citation
 | title     = MusE – The open source sequencer
 | url       = https://muse-sequencer.org
 | quote     = MusE is a MIDI/Audio sequencer with recording and editing capabilities ...
}}</ref> ''etc''.  On the later usage, the term "''audio sequencer''" is just a synonym for the "''DAW''".</p>}}
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|[[Image:Cubase6 LoopMash 2 loop remixer (brighten).jpg|left|120px|A typical loop-based music software ([[Cubase]] 6 LoopMash 2)]]
<!-- | -->{{block indent |left=0.5|1=[[Loop-based music software]] — a class of [[music software]] for [[Loop (music)|loop]]-based music compositions and remix, emerging since late 1990s. Typical software included [[ACID Pro]] (1998), [[Ableton Live]] (2001), [[GarageBand]] (2004), ''etc''. And now, several of them are referred as DAW, resulting of the expansions and/or integrations. <br />Its core feature, [[audio time stretching and pitch scaling]] allows user to handle audio samples (loops) with the analogy of [[MIDI]] data, in several aspects; user can designate [[pitch (music)|pitches]] and [[duration (music)|durations]] independently on short music samples, as on MIDI notes, to [[remix]] a song.
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This type of software actually controls sequences of audio samples; thus, it can potentially be called an  "''audio sequencer''".</p>}}
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|[[Image:Milkytracker Instrument.jpg|left|120px|A typical [[Music tracker|Tracker]] software ([[MilkyTracker]])]]
<!-- | -->{{block indent |left=0.5|1=[[Tracker (music software)]] — a class of software music sequencer with embedded [[sampler (musical instrument)|sample players]], developed since the 1980s. Although it provides earlier "sequence of sampling sound" similar to [[groovebox]]es and later [[loop-based music software]], its design is slightly dated, and rarely referred as ''audio sequencer''. }}
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|[[Image:Akai MPC60.jpg|left|120px|A typical [[groovebox]] ([[Akai MPC60]]) providing sampler and sequencer]]
<!-- | -->{{block indent |left=0.5|1=[[sampler (musical instrument)#Types|Phrase sampler]] (or phrase sampling) — similar to above, musicians or [[remix]]ers sometimes remixed or composed songs by sampling relatively long phrases or part of songs, and then rearranging these on [[groovebox]]es or a combination of [[sampler (musical instrument)]] and sequencer.
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This technique<!-- , called "''phrase sampling''", --> is possibly referred as "''audio sequencing''".</p>}}
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| <!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:Recycle mac screenshot.png|left|120px|A typical beat slicer ([[ReCycle]])]] -->
<!-- | -->{{block indent |left=0.5|1=[[Beat slicing]] — before the DAW became popular, several musicians sometimes derived various beats from limited drum sample [[loop (music)|loop]]s by slicing beats and rearranging them on [[sampler (musical instrument)|samplers]]. This technique, called "''beat slicing''", was popularized with the introduction of "beat slicer" tool, especially the "[[ReCycle]]" released in 1992.
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Possibly it may be one origin of "''audio sequencing''".</p>}}

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