sequencer
noun
se·quenc·er
ˈsē-kwən(t)-sər 
-ˌkwen(t)-
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The former records whichever audio loops are playing to a master track, while the latter records actions such as button presses, knob turns, and loop activations to the track sequencer.
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Pete Cottell, WIRED, 2 May 2024
Pro Tools also works exceptionally well importing sessions created in other programs—more so than with any other major sequencer.
—PCMAG, 1 May 2024
The potential for bitcoin to act as a global event sequencer for financial transactions, utilizing the Lightning Network for small transactions and the mainnet for preserving critical international settlements, makes increasing fees less of an issue.
—Liam Wright, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
My set up at the time was all electronic: sequencers and samples.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
Special enzymes attach short, recognizable pieces of DNA, called adapters, to the animal DNA, which readies them for the sequencer.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2023
The company claims the sequencer, dubbed DNBSEQ-T20, can read up to 50,000 human genomes a year, 2.5 times the max output of a line of new high-end sequencers that Illumina, the market leader, recently launched.
—Jonathan Wosen Reprints, STAT, 7 Feb. 2023
Manning ran samples from the patient through a genetic sequencer, a device that reads the letters that make up an organism's genome; the sequencer was a recent addition to her lab at the Cambodian government's parasitology department in Phnom Penh.
—Amos Zeeberg New York Times, Star Tribune, 4 Mar. 2021
At some computers down the hall from the sequencers, the maps help another team of researchers assemble sequence fragments into a full T2T genome.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2023
Pete Cottell, WIRED, 2 May 2024
Pro Tools also works exceptionally well importing sessions created in other programs—more so than with any other major sequencer.
—PCMAG, 1 May 2024
The potential for bitcoin to act as a global event sequencer for financial transactions, utilizing the Lightning Network for small transactions and the mainnet for preserving critical international settlements, makes increasing fees less of an issue.
—Liam Wright, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
My set up at the time was all electronic: sequencers and samples.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
Special enzymes attach short, recognizable pieces of DNA, called adapters, to the animal DNA, which readies them for the sequencer.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2023
The company claims the sequencer, dubbed DNBSEQ-T20, can read up to 50,000 human genomes a year, 2.5 times the max output of a line of new high-end sequencers that Illumina, the market leader, recently launched.
—Jonathan Wosen Reprints, STAT, 7 Feb. 2023
Manning ran samples from the patient through a genetic sequencer, a device that reads the letters that make up an organism's genome; the sequencer was a recent addition to her lab at the Cambodian government's parasitology department in Phnom Penh.
—Amos Zeeberg New York Times, Star Tribune, 4 Mar. 2021
At some computers down the hall from the sequencers, the maps help another team of researchers assemble sequence fragments into a full T2T genome.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2023
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sequencer
noun
se·quenc·er
ˈsē-kwən-sər, -ˌkwen(t)-sər
: one that sequences
especially
: a device for determining the order of occurrence of amino acids in a protein or of bases in a nucleic acid
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