Back in 1989, Talin created the award-winning Music-X MIDI sequencer for the Amiga. Music X eventually became one of the most well-known and popular Amiga programs. Later, Talin started work on MeV, an entirely new music sequencer designed for BeOS. Due to time conflicts, Talin discontinued the development of MeV as a commercial application. He then offered to release the source code to the BeOS user community as open source software and turned ownership of the code over to the newly-formed MeV team.

Currently MeV is a MIDI sequencer. However it is our goal create a media-independent sequencer. One of our central ideas for the future direction of MeV is total modularity when it comes to different types of media. Support for MIDI, audio and video as well as for more "esoteric" things like generative music, will each be encapsulated into plugins.

Many other things will have to be done first. For example, the recording system has not yet been implemented, nor has synchronization to MTC or SMPTE. But the focus on media independence is valuable now as we design not only a great MIDI sequencer but an encompassing production environment. Keep this goal in mind as you test this preliminary version and offer suggestions.

Your suggestions are important to help us build excellent production tools. Please check out this page to find out how you can get involved with the project.