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The Sample Editor
The Sample Editor allows you to edit audio files. The se-
lected audio event is displayed in the center of the Editor 
Page. Here you can see a detailed waveform rendering of 
the audio file.
You can zoom in and out using the plus and minus buttons 
in the bottom right corner. You can also click in the ruler 
along the top of the Editor Page and drag up to zoom out 
and down to zoom in. Once you are zoomed in, you can 
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Transpose Lock
Activating transpose lock will lock the original transpose 
value of the event. The event will no longer follow any glo-
bal transpose changes throughout the project.
Stretch Mode
Here you can switch between either the “Song Tempo” or 
“Original” stretch modes. Simply click to switch between 
them.
Activating “Song Tempo” will lock the event’s tempo to 
the project tempo. This function does not quantize the au-
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Swing (“Song Tempo” mode)
Swing appears when “Warp Beats” has been activated. 
Swing allows you to add a more human feel to an audio 
event. Click and drag the slider left or right to add or re-
move swing. The effect of using swing is dependent on 
the “Quantize” value. If the “Quantize” value is set to 
eighth notes for example, only eighth notes will be af-
fected by changing the swing amount.
Free Warp (“Song Tempo” mode)
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You can zoom in and out using the plus and minus buttons 
in the bottom right corner. You can also click in the ruler 
along the top of the Editor Page and drag up to zoom out 
and down to zoom in. Once you are zoomed in, you can 
use the scroll bar along the bottom to scroll left or right 
and the little scroll bar on the right hand side to scroll up 
and down. You can also use the mouse wheel to scroll up 
and down and [Shift]+mouse wheel to scroll left and right.
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Activated Step Input
“Activated Step Input” allows you to enter instrument data 
note by note and beat by beat, using a MIDI keyboard or 
controller. It’s great for quick entry of instrument parts.
When activated, this button puts Sequel into step input 
mode. A blue vertical position line appears. Each time you 
press a key, a note will be entered at the vertical position 
line. The length of the note is determined by the Quantize 
value. 
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In order to do this, you first need to create Arranger parts. 
Make sure that the “Show Arranger Track” button above 
the track list is activated, see “Show Arranger Track” on 
page 50.
Hold down [Alt]/[Option] and move the mouse cursor over 
the Arranger track. The mouse will turn into a pencil. You 
can then click and drag to create an Arranger part.
Pads
The 16 rounded squares in the center of the Arranger 
Page are known as pads. Every Arranger part that you cre-
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Just select each pad in the order that you want them played. 
You can also press the corresponding key on your com-
puter keyboard to add the pad to “The Current Chain”. As 
you select them “The Current Chain” will begin filling up. 
“The Current Chain” resides along the top of the Arranger 
Page and is only active in “Chain Play” mode.
Scroll left/right
You can scroll left and right through the current chain using 
the buttons on the left hand side.
Insert Cursor
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Start-up Action
This pop-up menu allows you to decide whether Sequel 
will create a new project when you load up or load the last 
project you were working on.
Audio Settings
Audio Connection
Clicking here brings up a pop-up menu where you can se-
lect which ASIO driver you would like to use for audio 
playback. 
Click the “Setup…” button to bring up the control panel 
for you audio interface. 
Click “Reset” to reset the ASIO driver settings.
Output Selector
Clicking here brings up a...

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Advanced features 

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Introduction
In this chapter, we are going to go over some of the ad-
vanced features found in Sequel. Make sure you have gone 
through all of the previous chapters before proceeding.
ÖThe following sections make references to tutorial 
projects, located in the default Sequel project folder.
Adding silence
Adding silence allows you to strip out or mute sections of 
an audio event to erase unwanted clicks or glitches. This is 
great for removing headphone bleed from vocal tracks or...