To add to that, I was forced to use a music sequencer that I'd not used before, and was told I couldn't use any "fancy commands in the sequencer".
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The step sequencer that is built in is a blast.
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It's like a smart phone, a supercomputer and a sequencer.
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I've got a sampler and a sequencer and a JUNO keyboard.
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Goren responded and informed him that he uses a Yamaha QY700 Sequencer.
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The hospital then prepares samples and processes them using a DNA sequencer.
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There's some new gear, including a genetic sequencer, in the cargo hold.
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One example is an old sequencer he got off Kijiji for $60.
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Unfortunately, yesterday was the last day the sequencer will be at Tresor.
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It's like a drum machine and a sequencer...it's got it all.
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Today, we are inching close to putting a DNA sequencer in every pocket.
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Technologies that—up until now—have been dominated by US sequencer behemoth Illumina.
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And the famed sequencer has been integral to Subotnick's sound throughout his career.
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With the sequencer onboard, astronauts could now run a swab of the fungus.
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The 16 is a musical keyboard with sequencer and individual tuning option for $149.
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A sequencer of equivalent quality made in this millennium would cost around $2000 today.
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But the sequencer could answer questions, especially about the air and water, almost immediately.
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There's considerable control over the sequencer as well, with reset, stop, tempo, and other options.
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The 16 is a musical keyboard controller with sequencer and individual tuning option for $149.
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Barri started out by making a 2D visual sequencer, experimenting with visuals to accompany his music.
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The sequencer gives you all of the base pairs, but they're not in the correct order.
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The detuned sequencer really gives the track its edge and a somewhat ecstatic and hysterical feeling.
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Running IDSeq only requires having a sequencer you know how to use and an internet connection.
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The programmer behind MR-808 Interactive's software, server, and sequencer, is Geist's "beloved super-nerd," Karsten.
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Even if you aren't a musician, you've likely seen or played around with a music sequencer before.
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We are still recording music with our first Korg sequencer, even though the sliders crackle much more.
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That sequencer has 16 steps and can be used to perform step input or real-time recording.
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One task the researchers hope he sequencer can accomplish is investigating exactly what's floating around the station.
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But there are also some unexpected questions that arise on the ISS that the sequencer can answer.
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"Each track has a collection of curated sounds available to schedule via a step sequencer," Martocci says.
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There was even a forensics evidence room complete with biohazard infectious waste containers and a DNA sequencer.
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"In my lab, I saw a gene sequencer for the first time," he said, his eyes widening.
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While players can play with a sequencer and modulate sounds, they can't actually produce and record a song.
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Click on Google's logo and you'll be taken to an interface that operates like a basic music sequencer.
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The film was assembled with a beta version of Unity 5.4, along with a forthcoming cinematic sequencer tool.
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This futuristic-looking tambourine is part drum machine, sequencer, synthesizer, looper, MIDI controller, and acid-laced light show.
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In 2014, the British company Oxford Nanopore Technologies released a USB-powered DNA sequencer the size of a matchbox.
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Resynth is designed to look like a music sequencer, and solving the game's puzzles is akin to making music.
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He then dissected the brain into cubes like a sheet cake and fed the pieces into a DNA sequencer.
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Similarly, the GenapSys GENIUS sequencer is no larger than an iPad and is able to sequence DNA practically anywhere.
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Illumina released the NovaSeq, a sequencer which is "expected one day to enable a $100 genome," according to the firm.
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Using this instrument allowed him to have both hands free to manipulate the strings while a sequencer played the piano.
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The company's newest sequencer, the Sequel platform, is used more for microbiology and examining the genetics of a certain virus.
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That means no scrolling, no switching modules — just cramming everything from the sequencer to the samplers into a single window.
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"The Unity Demo Team built Adam with beta versions of Unity 5.4 and our upcoming cinematic sequencer tool," Unity explains.
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They also have some of the first CPUs ever used by NASA, enabling the agency to move beyond the sequencer.
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He recorded improvisations onto floppy disks and used a four-track sequencer to overlay parts and create fuller symphonic compositions.
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A decade ago, when Illumina unveiled its first DNA sequencer, it could sequence a human genome at a cost of $300,000.
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The biomolecule sequencer, called a minION, will be part of the cargo that SpaceX will launch to the ISS on Monday.
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In addition to training, the grants equip each international team with a small sequencer to take back to their home labs.
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"However, getting the malicious DNA strand from a doctored sample into the sequencer is very difficult with many technical challenges," he continued.
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Soon after, a friend gave him a musical sequencer, one he describes as being like a synthesizer and drum machine mixed together.
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There's the expected 16-step sequencer, and loads of effects available at your fingertips, like a resonant filter, decay, LFO, and swing.
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The 2200 is a monophonic analog synthesizer with a built-in keyboard, a programmable sequencer, speaker box, and battery pack for $2500.
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One of the initial hurdles with the new album was that none of the original sequencer data for the music still exists.
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But the real applications of the sequencer might only be seen once its off the ISS and going out further into space.
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But with the arrival of a sequencer at Manning's lab, Cambodia now had the ability to do metagenomic sequencing on patient samples.
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Her team will be limited, however, by the throughput of their new sequencer, which can run only one sample at a time.
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Last year Illumina was estimated to control three-fourths of the global sequencer market and has a market cap of $42 billion.
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From that severed piece, you could make more rabbits just like it, provided you had a DNA sequencer and a 3D printer.
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The step sequencer can hold up to eight banks of eight sequences, and each sequence can be up to 32 steps in length.
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Lastly, the 170 is a monophonic analog synthesizer with built-in keyboard, a programmable sequencer, speaker box, and battery pack; it costs $349.
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It has a sequencer format divided into two sections: a main portion for melody and a smaller bar at the bottom for rhythm.
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A hand-held sequencer made by Oxford Nanopore, a British company, may be able to match that and also make the technology portable.
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First up, I participated in a Garage Band Skills session, where we learned how to quickly create a beat using the beat sequencer.
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A New Tool on the ISS Could Help Us Find Alien LifeThe ISS is getting an incredible new tool: a handheld DNA sequencer.
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First of all, even though it's a streamlined digital audio workstation (DAW), Beat Maker features a 32-step (32 notes) sequencer and arpeggiator.
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In the future, Splice plans to add better loop support, more steps for the sequencer, as well as more scenes and basic effects.
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In other words, if you can follow an Ikea instruction manual, you can probably build yourself an analog synthesizer or sequencer on the cheap.
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The sequencer itself can also now store 128 patterns, and each one of these patterns can have up to eight variations and three fills.
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Mustard's sparse, uncomplicated beats indeed visualize into neat sets of two and four when programmed into a sequencer, especially one as legible as FruityLoops.
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Down the line, the sequencer could be used to search for life on the surface of other worlds—whether on Mars or an asteroid.
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Astronauts doing some work on the outside of the ISS (Image: NASA) The ISS is getting an incredible new tool: a handheld DNA sequencer.
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Related: Sound Sampling Made Easy with "Geometric Music" Sequencer Prince's Drum Samples: Now at Your Fingertips The Global Synthesizer Project Makes Crowdsourced Sound Art
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Also in 1993, I worked on an unreleased demo titled Apogée Stadium, collecting minimalist songs with a lot of synthesizer, drum machine, and sequencer.
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Festivalgoers were given a Google Nexus 7 tablet that reproduced the installation's appearance, with the 808's distinctive step sequencer below the visual elements.
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Teenage Engineering announced two new Pocket Operators at this year's NAMM — the PO-259 Speak, a vocal synthesizer and sequencer, and the PO-333 KO!
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The researchers accomplished their feat using the MinION nanopore sequencer, reading almost a hundred billion base pairs of data and analyzing huge chunks of DNA.
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The Toraiz SP-16 also has a 16-step sequencer, velocity-sensitive performance pads, a full-colour touch-screen interface, and 8GB of onboard memory.
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Those 16 individual sounds are then programmed into a 16-note step sequencer which plays through each sound, one by one, to a networked beat.
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Presenting two pieces, Willis made a facial recognition machine, alongside bass heavy recordings of deleted tweets made with an algorithm powered to a music sequencer.
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It can also be done with less specialized and less expensive equipment; all that's needed is a set of standard chemicals and a DNA sequencer.
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"We send out blood samples by 2 pm, so they hit Rady's lab the next morning and are on the sequencer within hours," Bupp says.
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The problem with using genomics to develop targeted therapies, companion diagnostics or other valuable applications involves more than just setting up a sequencer and pressing play.
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The researchers are already looking at how the sequencer could be modified to deal with truly alien life—for instance, life that didn't even have DNA.
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It has a built-in synthesizer and sequencer for making digital music, and the second FPGA it's packing is designed to be used specifically for development.
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Her solo pieces were built around a vintage synthesizer capability: the sequencer, repeating a series of notes ad infinitum or making changes as the repetition continued.
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The other supplies that the rocket carried include: A small DNA sequencer (which astronaut Kate Rubins will use to sequence DNA in space for the first time).
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Like other Pocket Operators, once sounds are decided on, the interface can be used as a sixteen-step sequencer to program sounds into a beat or melody.
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Called the RBMA-22017, the sequencer was designed and built by the Berlin-based creative studio Neulant van Exel, and took 280 technicians five weeks to assemble.
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Image: Matt Loose/University of NottinghamScientists reported this week that they have sequenced and assembled the human genome using a pocket-sized sequencer for the first time.
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The Pioneer crafts still worked with the sequencer-and-computer architecture, meaning they could only run the commands on board set by NASA Ames on the ground.
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Kevin Steinhauser, who started a sequencer-based duo with his girlfriend called Math the Band, also featured on Up End Atom, cites Goren as an influence as well.
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In June, Grail, a spinoff from gene sequencer maker Illumina, presented a feasibility study for its liquid biopsy test at American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago.
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Beat Maker boasts a 32-step sequencer and arpeggiator, and lets users trigger and tweak kick and snare drums, open and closed hi-hats, toms, and a shaker.
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He made it using a program called Advanced Mario Sequencer, which is basically a recreated version of the 8-bit composer feature in the SNES game Mario Paint.
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The 170 is an analog monophonic synthesizer with a programmable sequencer that comes with a 70-page illustrated manual, including several sample patch diagrams to get you started.
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Set in a twisted, glitchy, 3D world those familiar with Rolfes' work will recognize, a drum machine sequencer sends cubes representing sounds at a fleshy floating ragdoll alien.
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The Lunar Library will include simple instructions for decoding its information and later building a gene sequencer to read its contents, meant to keep it simple for future finders.
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The Rick and Morty pocket operator (PO-137) comes with a vocal synth and sequencer that includes a built-in microphone with eight different Rick and Morty character options.
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Initial results appear to be identical both on Earth and in space—and that means that, for the first time ever, we have a working DNA sequencer in space.
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EDT, wrapping up a four-month mission that included the first use of a DNA sequencer in space and installation of a parking spot for upcoming commercial space taxis.
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Then it was a Roland MC-4, and then a 16-step sequencer make by a company called Umi, which was made to be used with the BBC Micro.
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During that period, Ihsahn bought his first computer, and learned to use its sequencer on the fly, conjuring the album's now-iconic orchestral string sections as he went along.
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It's sort of inspiring because a lot of guitars are going away, and it's a lot of more laptop-sequencer-synth stuff, and I'm not hating on that music!
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For the past few months they'd been using that new sequencer to figure out which microbes, other than the dengue virus, are behind so many high fevers in Cambodia.
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Additionally, there's full MIDI implementation, so you can automate everything on the front panel along with a lot of hidden parameters via plug-ins or a MIDI controller / sequencer.
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It's essentially an easy to use sequencer that lets you draw melodies in the browser (though it doesn't feature some of the automation in the Music Lab's Melody Maker tool).
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The influence is apparent: "The Blade"'s shifting sequencer patterns draw from Vangelis' 1976 piece "Spiral," while the aforementioned modal mixture shows up in the composer's French nature doc soundtracks.
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As Geist explains, the server provides an HTML layout running a small super collider sequencer, while the tablets render the website as an app that constantly communicates with the server.
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The home screen is populated with icons for apps with names like MMI, Reliability, Sequencer, and Console, an app that allows you to open a command line terminal inside the iPhone.
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There's more here than the bleepy novelty of the sequencer modules, filters, and oscillators we heard on their 20113 debut Last Exit, or 2006's house-tinged So This is Goodbye.
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Perhaps comparable to a collaborative and multi-platform version of Apple's GarageBand, Soundtrap lets you record music or things like podcasts and comes with its own software instruments and MIDI sequencer.
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Not only that, it has a built in synthesizer and sequencer for creating music, and it can be docked to a TV and connect to controllers for a big screen experience.
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Assign up to four automation tracks per preset, edit notes per step, or throw on the "Spice" and "Dice" sequencer functions, which randomize notes you've played to create cool and unexpected variations.
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Shelley had worked on a series of demos with producer Martin Rushent in anticipation of a fourth Buzzcocks album, all recorded with a new-fangled Roland MC-8 Microcomposer; a prototype sequencer.
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The eight debut entries to the Sound Library include three new instruments — taiko drums and two string instruments, the koto and guzheng — a beat sequencer, new virtual drummers, and some sound packs.
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A browser-based experience, Song Maker is a sequencer that allows you to program loops for two different instruments of your choosing, then save it or send to someone else for collaboration.
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As part of Red Bull Music Academy's 20173th edition, the company has built the world's largest step sequencer, and placed it outside of iconic Berlin club Tresor for anyone to try out.
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There are countless electronic sequencer apps available for your mobile device, but based on the popularity of Teenage Engineering's tiny Pocket Operator synths, people still like pushing real made-of-matter buttons.
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Even as the scientist is portrayed as a storyteller with an automated sequencer, a painter with a palette of nucleotides, the arts come off as a sort of third wheel of civilization.
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Let's be honest, here: they always look really smug about it as well, as if the mere fact that they are a human being with a sequencer is immediately and massively impressive.
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Tangerine Dream - The Dream is Always the Same I'm a synth boy at heart, growing up in Sheffield with The Human League and Cabaret Voltaire, and I love this of sequencer music.
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According to a press release, it has the same 16-step sequencer as the original, but allows users to fine-tune parameters and switch between the Step and Tap modes without interruption.
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The VP-03 (also $349) shares the VP-330's ability to fuse synthesized sound with the human voice, and additionally features 16 Chord Memory setups and a new Voice Step sequencer.
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And while Oxford Nanopore's pocket sequencer has already been put to use in places like the International Space Station, it's $500, requires specialized knowledge to operate, and is plagued by concerns about accuracy.
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Photo: Teenage EngineeringAt the $149 end is a programmable 16-key keyboard with a built-in sequencer, but it's only designed to control other synthesizers and doesn't produce any sound on its own.
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The biggest option, the 216, is an analog modular synth with three oscillators, a 250-step sequencer, filter, LFO, two envelopes, noise, random generator, two VCAs, a mixer, speaker box, and power pack.
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Perched on top of the rocket was a Dragon capsule filled with nearly 5,000 pounds (2,268 kg) of food, supplies and equipment, including a miniature DNA sequencer, the first to fly in space.
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In addition to the 16-step sequencer there's now also a velocity-sensitive performance pad on the right side of the machine, allowing for punching in accent, flam, and velocity on the fly.
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His team was part of a consortium of British and Brazilian scientists who traveled across Brazil in a minibus, analyzing samples of the virus using Oxford Nanopore Technologies' pocket-sized MinION DNA sequencer.
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Notable features include a 16-step note and motion sequencer powered by a four-voice analogue engine, with an OLED oscilloscope display that allows you to see your waveforms shaping up in real time.
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Not only is the EP named after a piece of vintage gear, but much of it was made using that same box: the Cheetah MS800, a multitrack hardware sequencer unveiled in the early nineties.
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In the first working model they used three channels: The first was the actual bases, the second was a quality score defined by the sequencer the reads came off of, the third contained other metadata.
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The physics and visual parameters were then put through Vezer, an audiovisual, timeline-based midi sequencer that would morph the appearance of strands over time, allowing it to take on a life of its own.
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Over time, the pair realized that they approached the instrument similarly, as composers rather than just experimenters, wringing tonally rich structures out of the sometimes obstinant machine—which, incidentally, doesn't feature a keyboard or sequencer.
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It also has a 16-step polyphonic sequencer and a good amount of inputs and outputs, including a stereo output, sync in and out, two CV ins, MIDI in and out, USB-B, and damper pedal.
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It's an analog modular synthesizer with a "warm natural analog sound" that's packed with three oscillators, a 16-step sequencer, filter, LFO, two envelopes, noise, random generator, two VCAs, a mixer, speaker box, and power pack.
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But having a working sequencer in space also opens up new laboratory possibilities that could fundamentally add to the way that we understand genes and their workings—and that's knowledge we can apply here at home.
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During the Dot-com boom, he co-founded the Distributed Real Time Groove Network, a way for musicians from across the globe to jam on an online MIDI sequencer over their then-standard dial-up modems.
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Image: Getty ImagesAt a San Francisco biotech conference on Monday, DNA sequencing giant Illumina announced the launch of a new DNA sequencer that could push the cost of decrypting the human genome from $13,21 to just $2000.
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Free for Android and iOSNanoloopImage: ScreenshotA rather plain-looking sequencer tool but that makes it perfect for casual musicians and beginners, and there's actually plenty of depth here for the more professional users, if you need it.
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Called a sequencer, it vastly expanded the concept and functionality of a tape loop by generating and repeating a chosen series of voltages, enabling it to control a recurring melody, a rhythm track or other musical elements.
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It feels like everyone's using the same kits and shit, and the same fucking sequencer, and it's just—what are we doing if we're not trying to push the boundaries and go beyond that shit, you know?
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We'd basically thrown away years of practice on the old rig, bought new sequencers, and had two or three months to learn the sequencer, rebuild a live rig, and write an entire album and record it live.
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Ultimate Care II—named after the machine's model type—was conceived when Schmidt was idly thrumming on the device and was struck by its musical possibilities: it has a built in sequencer, and rattles like a drum machine.
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"Just as anybody who is innovating with genomics needs an Illumina sequencer because they want to be able to do the sequencing… if someone wants to do editing… This gives them the access to do the right sequencing."
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Kate Rubins performs the first sequencing (Image: NASA)When I talked to the scientists behind the sequencer, called the minION, this summer, they noted that they already had a host of planned uses for it on the ISS alone.
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The bioolecule sequencer Image: Oxford Nanopore Technologies via NASAAs a self-contained unit with a rotating crew of astronauts, a constantly changing cargo hold, and all the microbes that have ever accompanied them, the ISS is a microbial stew.
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The vehicle will carry around 3,800 pounds of fresh cargo and science experiments, including a space-based DNA sequencer called minION that will be used by NASA astronaut Kate Rubins to sequence DNA in space for the first time.
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Over the course of eight short pieces, Hauschildt moves through the spacious synth pads that you might expect from his past work, before diving through more structured passages of interstellar sequencer arpeggiations, and then receding back into cosmic gunk.
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By clipping a tiny fragment of plastic from the finished bunny's ear and running the DNA within through a sequencer, the researchers were able to recover those blueprints and use them to make further generations of DNA-infused bunnies.
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All three new models will still sell for $59, and include the same base features as the original models, including a 16-step sequencer with 16 different patterns, a retro, monochrome animated LCD display, parameter locks, and a headphone jack.
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New Order's first dance triumph in 290 was part happy accident: Gillian Gilbert's sequencer line in "Blue Monday" unintentionally kicks in off the beat, creating its now iconic, mesmerizing helix of sounds that commanded mainstream fans as much as club DJs.
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That's essentially the idea behind Splice, a cloud-based music production platform built for collaboration and remixing, and its Beat Maker tool, a new sequencer that allows users to play with close to one million samples from the Splice Sounds library.
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Via Create Digital Music, Fact Mag Related: Prince: Tears and Tributes | Last Week in Art Sound Sampling Made Easy With "Geometric Music" Sequencer Make Music in the Cloud Like Waka Flocka Flame [First Look] Here It Is, Moog's Badass New Synth
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This new technology is driven by the marriage of a device the size of a thumb drive called an Oxford Nanopore Minion sequencer to another recent invention, ocean-going autonomous vehicles (AUVs) that no longer take commands from ship or shore.
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Highlights of that gear include the space station's first DNA sequencer, which Rubins will use to attempt to sequence DNA in space for the first time—and also hopefully figure out what the weird, unidentified mold growing on the ISS walls could be.
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The bioinformatician from New Zealand, who valiantly, albeit masochistically chose to study Biology because it was his scientific weak point in high school, has recently been working with genetic sequencing, specifically with the smallest and most cost-effective DNA sequencer around, the MinION.
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On the tables sat gadgets, boxes, varicolored cables, and flashing LEDs—a mixture of old telecom equipment (PBX-555 Western Electric switchboard, calculagraph, and rotary dial mic) and more recognizable musical instruments (modified Moog synths, a noise synth, and an analog sequencer).
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But while the latter can together tackle one human genome (at 30 times coverage, sequencing it around 30 times to ensure reasonable accuracy) in about a month, each Illumina sequencer can tear through 16 human genomes at the same coverage in just three days.
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"For all the reasons the sequencer is good for microbiology applications—it's small, it's lightweight, pretty robust—it's a good piece of equipment to send to other locations in the solar system," Aaron Burton astrobiologist and the lead of the sequencing project, told Gizmodo.
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Thomas Bangalter complained when critics at the time overlooked this context, instead likening the tsunami thwack of the drums to those of classic rock's greats, the sequencer lightning flashes to Giorgio Moroder's disco, and the whipping dust clouds of their 303 lines to 80s electro.
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This is why interaction designer and creative coder Andreas Refsgaard has created Eye Conductor, a music production app that uses facial tracking to translate the human eye's gaze into musical notes or beats in a drum sequencer, while specific facial movements can trigger effects and octave transposition.
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The addition of the synthesizer and sequencer that makes it a little audio workstation is just icing on the cake and is a fun nod to the Game Boy's use in chiptune music, a genre that relies on the sound chips from old video game consoles.
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New Order – rising from the ashes of Joy Division after lead singer Ian Curtis's suicide – created the track using a hand-built Powertron Sequencer rigged to a Moog synthesizer and an Oberheim DMX drum machine (the very same model that would later give the rapper DMX his name).
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Each machine is given the name of a character out of Star Wars—calling a sequencer Yoda, Jar Jar or Bane (there really was a Darth Bane, I'm assured) is much easier than remembering the Elvish names of Lord of the Rings, explains Bill Biggs, HLI's Head of Genomic Sequencing.
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FBI Warning's "Dead by 3" is a 13-minute monster groove, slowly building up the relentless clicking percussion, liquid keyboards, textured bass buzz, and a sequencer effect that resembles an automaton simultaneously gargling and exhaling — eventually introducing a distorted voice intoning "Let there be light" as if in muted religious rapture.
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The original Stylophone limited musicians to tapping out crude beats, but the GenR-8's touch-sensitive keyboard can be modified using glide and modulation keys for more expressive and nuanced performances, while a built-in, eight-bank, 16-step sequencer allows for complete songs to be produced right on the device.
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The history of Ableton usually starts in 2001, when the Berlin-based software company released their first product, Ableton Live—a digital audio workstation and audio sequencer that, among its many functions, allows musicians to easily store and trigger samples during their shows so audiences can watch them build songs in real time.
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The new Boutique version now has a track-selectable trigger for working with additional instruments and modular gear, an LED display for greater control over tempo and shuffle, the ability to control compression / gain / tune with instruments, and an increased number of sequencer sub-steps to 21980 for detailed drum patterns and rolls.
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Click here to view original GIFWhen Mike Sannikov was designing an arcade game controller and needed to test which brand of buttons would work best, he didn't just read some online reviews—he bought a small sampling of buttons and used them to build this gorgeous music sequencer as a test bed.
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Though the TR-08 is physically smaller than its predecessor — with a width of 12 1/8 inches and a depth of only 083 1/8 inches — it's a near-exact homage to the TR-808 from the colors used, the shape of its sequencer buttons, and of course, the re-creation of the instrument's original sounds.
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In new research they plan to present at the USENIX Security conference on Thursday, a group of researchers from the University of Washington has shown for the first time that it's possible to encode malicious software into physical strands of DNA, so that when a gene sequencer analyzes it the resulting data becomes a program that corrupts gene-sequencing software and takes control of the underlying computer.
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I did hit a few snags when setting the modules up to work in Ableton (the most annoying one being how they kept defaulting to step sequencer mode when I didn't want them to.) But once I got things up and running, it was clear that none of the software plug-ins I have come anywhere close to replicating these kind of warming analog tones.
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A source with a triangle oscillator, which can then be frequency modulated or refolded to make a more complex tone, a random signal generator that uses pink noise as its source, two low-pass gate circuits that package a filter with an amp, a spacey reverb-like effect, a split for combining or separating inputs, a utility for mixing and controlling signals, two envelope generators, and the sequencer.
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There are three new EQs modeled after coveted API, Neve, and Pultec hardware made from the 1950s through the 1970s: Vintage Graphic EQ, Vintage Tube EQ, and Vintage Console EQ. Phat FX is a nine-module multi-effect plug-in with a customizable X/Y pad that can add warmth, crunch, and out-there distortion, and Step FX is an eight-module step sequencer that easily lets you add complex rhythmic movement to tracks.
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As with the other Pocket Operators that have been available since 323, the PO-32 Tonic features 16 sounds, 16 different punch-in effects, a sequencer that can chain up to 64 patterns, a full month of battery life on just a pair of AAAs, a charming old-school segmented LCD display (with a clock), and the ability to sync with other Pocket Operators for jam sessions with friends, or just creating a more complex beat.
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