Steinberg Sequel User Manual

Operation Manual 

Sequel Operation Manual by Steve Kostrey, Michael Baggley
Revision and Quality Control:
Cristina Bachmann, Heiko Bischoff, Sabine Pfeifer
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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
9Register 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 EQ...

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Table of Contents
88Key commands
89Introduction
89The available key commands
91Effects reference
92Introduction
92Track/Global Effects
93Instrument parameters
94Index 

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Introduction 

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Introduction
Welcome
Congratulations and thank you for your purchase of Stein-
berg Sequel. 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 a new 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
The 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 with 
fewer tracks and/or...

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System requirements and installation
Read on…
…to learn how to use Sequel:
First, you will find tutorials that will get you up and run-
ning quickly.
These tutorials refer to projects located in the default project folder, and 
video files that you will find on the program DVD.
Detailed descriptions of all program functions can be 
found in the chapters covering the various Sequel “zones”.
At the end of this manual you will find information on 
more advanced techniques, tips on how to set up your...