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What Is a Sequencer? The Step Grid That Drives Dance Music
A sequencer records, edits, and plays back note data so patterns stay perfectly locked. Here is how step grids, realtime modes, and analog classics shape dance music.

A sequencer records, edits, and plays back note data so patterns stay perfectly locked. Here is how step grids, realtime modes, and analog classics shape dance music.

Techno was born in 1980s Detroit from synth-pop, house, electro, and funk, then conquered Europe and splintered into subgenres from acid to dub techno. Here is the full story.

A drum machine is a box that plays drum sounds by itself. A few of them failed at their intended job and accidentally invented house, techno and everything after.