This product is also available to students & teachers upon confirmation of academic eligibility.
Steinberg's Sequel is considered by some to be their answer to Apple's Garage Band. The product includes thousands of loops, taken from a broad range of genres, so even a non-musician can start to put tracks together straight away. There over 600 on board sounds including a GM set and over 60 drum kits. There are even Audio Track Presets for recording new audio tracks including the Sequel guitar amp simulator. All in all, this software makes composition and arrangement simple even for the novice musician.
Steinberg Sequel Technical Specifications:
General
- Timeline-based performance sequencer with Arranger Track and Global Transpose Track
- Recording, Editing, and Mixing of Audio and Instrument Tracks
- Arranger mode for realtime arranging / remixing
- Single-Window User Interface divided in three main work-areas: Pilot Zone, Arrange Zone, Multi Zone.
- Unlimited number of audio and instrument tracks (only limited by available CPU performance)
Files and Formats (Import and Export)
- Recording format: Linear PCM; Stereo WAV 16-bit or 24-bit with 44.1 kHz sampling rate
- Supported audio file formats (import, drag & drop): WAV, AIFF, MP3, WMA, WMA Pro, OggVorbis
- Export project to iTunes: one-step mixdown/export function opens iTunes with new track in destination format (iTunes converter, including MP3, AAC, and Apple Lossless)
- CD burning provided using iTunes (pre-installed on Macs, free download for PC)
- SMF (Standard MIDI File) import and playback supported via drag & drop
Audio
- Audio recording with up to eight simultaneous tracks
- Unlimited number of audio tracks (only limited by CPU performance)
- Audio resolution: 16-bit or 24-bit at 44.1 kHz
- Internal Resolution: 32-bit floating point
- Support for ASIO, Core Audio (Mac) or DirectX (PC) compatible audio hardware
- Automatic VST Connections (all hardware inputs available in either mono or stereo configuration)
- Stereo output, assignable to any available hardware output pair.
- VST3 audio engine with full latency compensation across entire signal path
- Permanent realtime time stretching and pitch shifting with variable warp modes
- Formant preservation for monophonic signals
- Track presets available for one-stop recording
- User-definable track presets
Editing
- Arrange Zone with audio and instrument events on tracks, separate Arranger Track, Global Transpose Track, and Master Track
- Events have hot-zones for SmartTool. Available options: Move, Trim, Cut, Copy, Loop, and Mute/Unmute.
- Audio Editor (Sample) with realtime audio warp functions (realtime time stretching and pitch shifting)
- Warp Modes: Mix, Drums, Plucked, Pads, Vocals, Solo
- Tempo Sync On/Off
- Audio Quantize with variable Swing
- Manual Adjust Function for timing correction of individual beats
- Realtime manual pitch shifting (+/- 24 semitones)
- Root Key definition
- Key Editor (Instrument) with note event and controller editing
- Volume and Transpose (+/- 100 Semitones)
- Note Quantize with variable Swing
- Legato Slider for dynamic note length editing
- Step Record Mode with auto-advance functionand manual backward/forward buttons
- Root Key definition
Mixing/Automation
- Dynamic Track Mixer with Volume, Pan, EQ, Compressor, two variable inserts, two variable send effects
- Additional Event Effects for Instrument Tracks (Arpeggiator and Chorder)
- Master Output channel with two variable Output Effects (Inserts) plus two fixed Master Effects (Stereo Enhancer and Maximizer)
- Manual and automatic colour coding for channels/tracks
- Record-enable. Mute, and Solo buttons per channel
- Track/Channel and Output Channel automation with manual input (Edit/Write Mode)
- Automation destinations: Volume, Pan, Mute, EQ, Bypass, plus all effect parameters, instrument quick controls in instrument tracks
Arranger
- Realtime Arranging based on Arranger Parts; up to 15 parts can be assigned to Cue Pads for realtime arranging/remixing
- ?Live Pads? or ?Chain Play? modes
- Variable Jump interval (Now, 1 Beat, 1 Bar, 2 Bars, 4 Bars, End)
- Stop Pad for break/end
- Chain Play: up to 15 Chains per Project; up to 99 steps per Chain
- Full mixing/realtime editing flexibility while Arranger Mode is active
- Seamless switching between Linear, Chain, or Live Pad modes
- Realtime Transpose for audio and instrument events
- Project Key provides fixed global transpose for entire project
- Global Transpose Track holds transpose events for global song transpose per bar / beat
- Musical transpose behavior: when global transpose is applied, events move to the nearest interval independently
- Independent event transpose can be manually applied within the editors
Effects
- Integrated VST3 audio effects:
- Delay: Ping Pong Delay, Stereo Delay
- Distortion: Amp Simulator, Distortion
- Dynamics: Compressor, Gate, Maximizer
- Modulation: Auto Pan, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Rotary, Tremolo, Vibrato
- Other: Roomworks SE, Stereo Enhancer, Dual Filter
- Channel Equalizer: three-band with Lo/Hi Shelving EQ (w/ variable frequency), fully parametric mid-band with variable frequency and Q
- Fixed compressor in each channel
- Two variable Track Effects (Inserts) per channel
- Two Global Effects (Sends) per channel
- Two variable Master Track Effects (Inserts)
- Two fixed Master Effects: Stereo Enhancer, Maximizer (Inserts)
Instruments
- Integrated virtual instruments with hundreds of presets or track presets
- Up to 128-voice polyphony (defined by preset), limited by CPU performance
- Quick Control editing per track
- New sounds can be saved as track presets
- Event effects per track: Arpeggiator, Chorder
Content
- More than 5000 Loops (4500 pre-installed, additional 500 loops available after registration); 2000 instrument loops, 3000 audio loops
- More than 600 instrument presets and instrument track presets
- More than 50 audio track presets
- More than 150 effects presets
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