In essence an arpeggiator is a very basic real-time sequencer designed to take a chord as an input and turn it into an arpeggio.

Bruce Aisher runs us through the fundamentals of arpeggiators, from the most simple one-note patterns through to basic step sequencing, gated chords and MIDI effects.Īrpeggiators are perhaps one of the simplest and most audibly recognisable sequencing tools available.