Editing Programming (music) (section)

{{Short description|Electronic or digital reproduction of musical sounds}}
{{distinguish|program music}}

'''Programming''' is a form of [[music]] [[Music production (music industry)#Modern production technology|production]] and performance using [[electronic device]]s and [[computer software]], such as [[Music sequencer|sequencers]] and [[Music workstation|workstations]] or hardware [[synthesizer]]s, [[Sampler (musical instrument)|sampler]] and sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments. These musical sounds are created through the use of music coding languages. There are many music coding languages of varying complexity. Music programming is also frequently used in modern [[Pop music|pop]] and [[Rock music|rock]] music from various regions of the world, and sometimes in [[jazz]] and [[contemporary classical music]]. It gained popularity in the 1950s and has been emerging ever since.<ref name=Brett>{{Cite journal|last=Brett|first=Thomas|date=2020-05-26|title=Prince's Rhythm Programming: 1980s Music Production and the Esthetics of the LM-1 Drum Machine|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03007766.2020.1757813|journal=Popular Music and Society|volume=43|issue=3|pages=244–261|doi=10.1080/03007766.2020.1757813|s2cid=218943863 |issn=0300-7766|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Music programming is the process in which a musician produces a sound or "patch" (be it from scratch or with the aid of a [[synthesizer]]/[[Sampler (musical instrument)|sampler]]), or uses a [[Music sequencer|sequencer]] to arrange a song.