I hate my step sequencer

[groan]

Is it red-headed too? 

Hi,
 
Wish I even knew what a sequencer was and above all ... how to use it ... no manual that starts with abc and such found!

Moshkito
Hi,
 
Wish I even knew what a sequencer was and above all ... how to use it ... no manual that starts with abc and such found!

If you understand a piano roll you can understand a sequencer. 

I'm laughing so hard right now....so so very hard.

Moshkito
 
Hi,
 
Wish I even knew what a sequencer was and above all ... how to use it ... no manual that starts with abc and such found!

 

If you understand a piano roll you can understand a sequencer. 

 

have no idea what a piano roll is

You have hardware synths with sequencers yes? You input notes and rests, then play the sequence back.
 
Same thing inside a DAW, the 'step sequencer' and 'piano roll view' are grids where you enter MIDI notes and assign various values to them, then use that information to play software synthesizers and drum software.

Makzimia
What you need is a beacon reader!

If you're talking about Becan, then no reading is necessary........your nose always knows where it (Becan) goes.

 
An old skool piano roll?

Hi,
 
The Arturia Jupiter software I have has a Sequencer on the left hand side of it. I have never figured out how to use it. And their instructions are like this about astro-physics .... planet ... star. That's it!
 
If the instructions here, are that easy, I wonder why some of those folks do not teach music a bit more! Some people sometimes do not understand things until they see them ... except here ... !!! it's all heresay and over priced yokes, made by Apple of course! 

Piano rolls, the backstory (as I believe hip young people in Hollywood put it).

Once upon a time someone invented an instrument that was big, heavy and square. In it were strings that were hit by hammers, and you made the hammers work by pressing down white and black keys. This was called a "pianoforte", or "piano" for short, meaning "soft and loud" because unlike the organ or harpsichord you could play it softly or loudly just by how you pressed the keys.

The instrument became very popular and over time became a fashionable household item and a standard fixture in pubs, saloons and other places of low entertainment.

Unfortunately it took not just some talent but also a lot of practice to become proficient at playing the piano. Which is hard work. But people wanted to hear music and records hadn't been invented yet. What to do?

The answer was a self-playing piano, or "player-piano". Which, if the link to an off-site image works, looks like this http://coachingcounsel.co...13/06/playerpiano1.jpg

Which it doesn't because on iOS most of the editing tools for the forum are missing. Never mind, just click on the link.

Now, please note the roll of paper located centrally above the keyboard. That is a "piano roll". It is several feet of rolled up paper in which are punched lots of holes. To make it work the piano roll is wound past a mechanism which detects the holes and makes the piano play the notes.

And the view in DAWs called "piano roll view" is a virtual version of the same thing, only far more powerful and not operated by clockwork or the user having to crank a handle, or like the one in the picture, work pedals at exactly the right speed.