Steinberg Sequel User 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 into a project, adding in a drum loop...

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Setting the default 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 pops up allowing you to browse you com-
puter and find a suitable location. When you installed Se-
quel it automatically made a location for saving projects.
4.You can click “Create” to make a new folder if you 
would like to save your projects...

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5.Select the desired input for the track from the “Input 
Selection” pop-up menu.
To be able to see the Input selection, make sure the track height is set to 
Medium track height at the bottom of the track list.
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...

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6.Drag the selected drum loop into the Arrange Zone 
and line it up at bar 1, just below the guitar track.
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 53 for more detailed information on repeating.
8.Rename the track “Drums”.
ÖNotice that the tempo of the project has now changed 
to match the drum loop. When you...

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The Tuner also displays the current note and octave that 
your string is tuned to. In our case, the D string is a little 
flat, so the tuner is displaying “d 2”. 
4.Tune up each string until all your strings are in tune.
5.Deactivate the tuner.
You are now ready to record!
Recording the guitar
1.Click the “Jump to Previous Marker” button a few times 
in the Pilot Zone to make sure that we start recording at 
bar 1.
2.Make sure that cycle is deactivated (not highlighted).
3.Click...

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3.Make sure the Cycle button is activated.
4.Click the “Jump to previous marker” and “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 and Sequel will 
play looping over and over again until you press the space 
bar again.
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
Let’s...

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6.Turn off “Record Ready” so that we don’t hear the in-
put any more.
Congratulations! You just recorded your first Instrument 
part in Sequel.
Press the [.] key on your numerical keypad to set the song 
position 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 37, “The Arrange Zone” 
on page 48 and “The Multi Zone” on page 55 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...