I am always reading that using the sequencer means one's music always sounds the same. Of course it does! What is wrong with that? When I play a recording, for example by the David Rose orchestra, it is identical every time I play it, but I still enjoy it. And I've been playing it for 40 years! And I'll continue to play it. It is as beautiful and fresh today as it was the first time I listened to it after buying the album all those years ago.

A song sequenced by Colin Leaney, Larry Gosmeyer, and others is beautiful music. It is beautiful and fresh whether played yesterday, today, or tomorrow.

I dare say folks on a dance floor dancing to the Glenn Miller band were not expecting the band to play Moonlight Serenade a hundred different ways. The band played from written music. That is akin to sequencing. This penchant for sounding different every time you play a tune is something I'll never understand. My neighbor hears me play and wants me to repeat a tune. So I play it exactly the same way again. Why? Because that is the way she likes to hear it! If I played it differently every time she would not like it, I'm sure. And whose to say that those who play tunes differently every time are playing them so that they are musically appealing every time. I, for one, would doubt they are.

Just my thoughts.

Chuck
Manchester, UK