ABSTRACT
Apart from electronic musical instruments, one of the most important music production tools that can be found in the modern-day project studio is the MIDI sequencer. As is true with audio tracks on a DAW, sequenced tracks are designed to function in a way that’s loosely similar to their distant cousin, the multitrack tape recorder. This gives a familiar operating environment in which each instrument, set of layered instruments or controller data can be recorded onto separate, synchronously arranged tracks. A MIDI sequence track is one that can be created within a DAW for the purpose of recording, editing and playing back MIDI performance and control-related data in a linear fashion. When beginning a MIDI session, one of the first aspects to consider is the tempo and time signature. The beats-per-minute (bpm) value will set the general tempo speed for the overall session.
