ABSTRACT
It is increasingly common for MIDI (see Chapter 14) and digital audio editing to be integrated within one software package, particularly for pop music recording and other multitrack productions where control of electronic sound sources is integrated with recorded natural sounds. Such applications used to be called sequencers but this is less common now that MIDI sequencing is only one of many tasks that are possible. Although most sequencers contain some form of audio editing these days, there are some software applications more specifically targeted at high quality audio editing and production. These have tended to come from a professional audio background rather than a MIDI sequencing background, although it is admitted that the two fields have met in the middle now and it is increasingly hard to distinguish a MIDI sequencer with added audio features from an audio editor with added MIDI features.
