page_title: Music workstation
section_title: Origin of concept
hierarchical_section_title: Music workstation / Origin of concept
caption_attribution_description: Page R (Real-Time Composer) on Fairlight CMI II
context_page_description: A music workstation is an electronic musical instrument providing the facilities of:
  a sound module,
  a music sequencer and
  a musical keyboard.
  It enables a musician to compose electronic music using just one piece of equipment.
context_section_description: The concept of a music sequencer combined with a synthesizer originated in the late 1970s with the combination of microprocessors, mini-computers, digital synthesis, disk-based storage, and control devices such as musical keyboards becoming feasible to combine into a single piece of equipment that was affordable to high-end studios and producers, as well as being portable for performers. Prior to this, the integration between sequencing and synthesis was generally a manual function based on wiring of components in large modular synthesizers, and the storage of notes was simply based on potentiometer settings in an analog sequencer.
caption: "Page R" pattern editing software on Fairlight CMI Series II (1980) realized the interactive composition of music using sampling sound
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