Steinberg Sequel 2 Operation Manual

Operation Manual 

Original Sequel Operation Manual by Steve Kostrey, Michael Baggley
Revision and Quality Control for this version:
Cristina Bachmann, Heiko Bischoff, Marion Bröer, Sabine Pfeifer
The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part 
of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. The software described by this document is subject to a License Agreement 
and may not be copied to other media except as specifically allowed in the License Agreement. No...

Table of Contents 

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Table of Contents
6Introduction
7Welcome
7About this manual
7Key command conventions
8System requirements and installation
9About this chapter
9Minimum requirements
9Installing Sequel
9Activating Sequel
10Register your software
10Read on…
11Tutorial 1: Recording
12The tutorials
12Recording audio
17Recording instrument parts
19Tutorial 2: Editing
20Introduction
20Editing audio events
23Editing instrument parts
26Tutorial 3: Mixing
27Introduction
27Setting levels
27Setting Pan
28Mute and Solo
28Adding...

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Table of Contents
88Setting up your system
89About this chapter
89General notes on how to set up your system
89Defragmenting the hard disk (Windows only)
89MIDI requirements
89Audio hardware
91Setting up audio
94Setting up MIDI
94Optimizing audio performance
96Key commands
97Introduction
97The available key commands
99Effects reference
100Introduction
100Track/Global Effects
101Instrument parameters
102Index 

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Introduction 

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Introduction
Welcome
Congratulations and thank you for your purchase of Stein-
berg Sequel 2. You have now become a member of the 
worlds largest community of music production software 
users. Looking back at more than 20 years of innovation in 
computer-based music production, Steinberg has always 
been the driving force behind software technology.
Sequel is an entry-level sequencer designed to be an 
easy-to-use, all-inclusive music production platform. Se-
quel provides all of the tools needed to...

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System requirements and installation 

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System requirements and installation
About this chapter
This chapter describes the requirements and installation 
procedures for the Windows version and the Mac version 
of Sequel.
Minimum requirements
ÖThe following requirements are based on performance 
measurements for a typical project with an average 12 
tracks (incl. 3 to 5 instrument tracks), global effects, com-
pressor and EQ per track, measured at 512 samples buffer 
size. Slower computers can still be used, but only using 
fewer tracks...

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System requirements and installation
Register your software
We encourage you to register your software! By doing so 
you are entitled to technical support and kept aware of up-
dates and other news regarding Sequel. There are two 
ways to register:
In Sequel, open the File menu and select the “User 
Registration…” option. 
This is an Internet link that will open the Registration page of the Steinberg 
web site. To register, follow the instructions on screen. When you launch 
Sequel, you will also be...