A sequencer stores decisions rather than sound, which is why every one of them can be edited — and why it is so easy to edit the life out of a part without noticing you have done it.
A sequencer is a machine that records MIDI messages, stores each one with a timestamp, and plays them back at the same relative times. That is the whole idea. Everything else — the piano roll, the drum editor, groove templates, the whole apparatus — is interface built on top of those two sentences.
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