Steinberg Sequel 2 Operation Manual

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The tutorials
The following chapters provide a quick introduction to Se-
quel. But first, please take a look at the figure below, as it 
gives you an overview of the Sequel program interface:
In this first tutorial, we are going to show you how the Pilot 
Zone, Arrange Zone, and Multi Zone work together when 
recording audio events and Instrument parts.
Recording audio
In this section, we are going to take a look at recording a 
guitar line, adding a drum loop and playing it...

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Setting the save folder
In order to save projects in Sequel, it is important to make 
sure you know where the projects are going to be saved.
1.Go to the Program Settings Page.
2.Click on the “Project Location” button.
3.A dialog opens allowing you to browse you computer 
and find a suitable location. When you installed Sequel it 
automatically created a location for saving projects.
4.You can click “Create” to create a new folder if you 
would like to save your projects...

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Turning on the Metronome click
We’ll want to have a click or metronome play in the back-
ground as we record the guitar so that what we record 
aligns with the bars and beats displayed in the ruler.
Activate the Metronome button in the Pilot Zone.
The metronome is automatically set to add a two bars pre-
count before recording starts.
We now need to set the speed or tempo of our project. This 
directly affects the speed of the metronome click. You can 
change the tempo in the...

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7.Use the Repeat function to make the loop 4 bars long.
Just click in the middle of the right edge of the event and drag right until 
the loop is repeated to the beginning of bar 5. See “Repeating events” 
on page 57 for more detailed information on repeating.
8.Rename the track “Drums”.
ÖNote that the tempo of the project has now changed to 
match the drum loop. When you drag a file into a project 
and it is the first file to be added, its tempo will define the 
project tempo....

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Recording the guitar
1.Click in the ruler at the position where you want the re-
cording to start to move the project cursor to this position.
You can also click the the “Jump to Previous Marker” and “Jump to Next 
Marker” buttons in the Pilot Zone to position the project cursor in the Ar-
range Zone.
2.Make sure that Cycle is deactivated (not highlighted).
3.Activate the “Record Ready” button for the track you 
want to record on.
4.Click the “Record” button to record the guitar...

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3.Make sure the Cycle button is activated.
4.Click the “Jump to previous marker” or “Jump to next 
marker” buttons until the song position cursor is sitting di-
rectly on bar 2.
5.Press the space bar to start playback. Sequel will play 
looping over and over again until you press the space bar 
a second time.
Recording instrument parts
In this section we are going to take a look at recording in-
strument parts into a project using instrument tracks.
Creating an instrument track...

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Congratulations! You have just recorded your first instru-
ment part in Sequel.
Press the [.] key on your numeric keypad to set the song 
position cursor to bar 1 and press the space bar to listen 
back.
Move ahead to the next chapter to learn how to edit the 
audio events and instrument parts we’ve recorded.
!Load the project “MIDI Playback” found in the “Se-
quel Tutorial 1” folder. 

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Introduction
In this chapter, we are going to show you how the Pilot 
Zone, Arrange Zone, and Multi Zone work together when 
editing audio events and instrument parts. Refer to the 
chapters “The Pilot Zone” on page 38, “The Arrange Zone” 
on page 49 and “The Multi Zone” on page 59 if you aren’t 
sure about a specific function.
ÖThe following sections make references to tutorial 
projects, located in the default Sequel project folder.
Editing audio events
In this section we are...