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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: use of Fairlight
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Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 12:19:38 EDT
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>>So sorry, but the Fairlight has a very *nice* sequencer option called
>>"Page R" (it's been a while since I've fooled with it, but I think that's

> Well, what I meant here, actually, was that the Fairlight does the
> "sequencer" function under control of a computer (an inherently sequential
> device!).  I was referring to the ancient sequencers that simply output
> a control signal sequentially on one of a whole row of control jacks, one
> after the other, which you then connected to the control inputs on various
> synthesizer modules on this massive array of modules to cause it to do
> something at the prescribed time. [ROSKOS]

That's exactly what a computer-based digital synth sequencer simulates.
It just uses "virtual" patchcords instead of wires cluttering up your
living room.  And thank goodness for that!!!
-- 
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 to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human
 being can fight and never stop fighting."  - e. e. cummings
	Rich Rosen	ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr