For a more detailed look at Vision and Studio Vision through the years, I'd advise you to check out past SOS reviews (see the ' Vision In SOS' box for a list) in this review I'll be concentrating on the improvements delivered by v4.0 and assuming a certain amount of knowledge of the program. It's actually quite interesting to see how much underlying design and structure has survived, although the appearance of the user interface these days is much more sophisticated.
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The arrival of the new version (4.0) of the Studio Vision Pro MIDI + Audio sequencer for review prompted me to look back at its ancestors and see how things have moved on. You can re‑use Segments in several Sequences if you like. Within a Sequence are individual Tracks, and these Tracks can themselves be made up of smaller units called Segments. A Song is made up of one or more Sequences, and these Sequences can be the sections of the song: Intro, Verse, Chorus, and so on.
The 'Song' is the basic container - what you store on disk. Opcode sequencers are designed around patterns - in some ways they're rather like overgrown drum machines. The original Opcode sequencer from 1986 was called exactly that ( Opcode Sequencer), and was very much a mixture of live performance aid and MIDI sequencer, whilst in 1989 the addition of the now universal piano‑roll graphical display prompted a change of name for the program, to Vision - so now you know! Just one year later, the first version of Studio Vision was released, and this added digital audio recording features, which were revolutionary at the time. At the back of my floppy disk archive, in the section that will soon be 10 years old, there's a disk containing a demo of Vision 1.02 from 1989. Opcode have been in the sequencer business for a long time. Martin Russ sets out to discover whether successor Studio Vision Pro is still keeping up with the times, and finds it visibly improved. Studio Vision has been offering digital audio recording for an amazing eight years, making Opcode a pioneer in this field. The Drums track would probably be shown in a Pulse Window. In this case the Sequence called 'Verse' is shown in a Track Overview Window, and three Segments are shown in Graphics Windows. This song is made up of several Sequences.
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