Steinberg Sequel User Manual

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Splitting
Splitting is used to cut events.
You can split or cut an event wherever you want to or you 
can split them evenly at positions defined by the bars and 
beats position grid displayed in the Arrange Zone.
Splitting with Snap off
Splitting with Snap off allows you to cut the event any-
where you like, without locking to the grid.
1.Make sure that Snap is deactivated. You can now split 
the event anywhere you like.
2.Select the “Synth” event.
3.Hover the cursor along the...

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3.With all of the events selected, click and drag them so 
that the events line up with bar 2.
4.Click on an empty area of the project window so that 
no events are selected.
All of the events have moved together, and have stayed in 
the same relative position.
5.Select all of the events again, and drag them back to 
bar 1.
Muting
Muting an event stops you from hearing just that event. 
You may want to mute events on a track so that the track 
continues to play except for the...

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Erasing
1.Select an event to erase.
2.Press [Delete] or [Backspace] to delete the event.
You may also select the Delete option on the Edit menu.
About the Sample Editor
The Sample Editor is used for detailed editing. It can be 
used for the following functions:
 Quantization

 Adding Silence
These features will be explained in the chapter “Advanced 
features” on page 73.
1.To open the Sample Editor, select an audio event and 
then select the Editor page in the Multi Zone.
2.The...

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Copying notes
Let’s copy the all of the notes in the second bar into the 
first bar.
1.Lasso all the notes in bar 2.
2.Hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] and drag the notes from 
bar 2 to bar 1. This copies them.
Resizing notes
We can shorten or lengthen notes using the Key Editor. 
Let’s make all the eighth notes in the first two bars into 
quarter notes.
1.Lasso all the notes in the first two bars.
2.Put your cursor at the end of any of the lassoed notes. 
The cursor changes to look like...

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The Controller lane
The Controller Lane allows us to add in or modify Instru-
ment data such as velocity and controller information. The 
most common use for this is to edit velocity or pitch bend. 
If you find that the velocity is too loud or quiet on certain 
notes, you can view and edit them at the bottom of the Key 
Editor.
1.On the pop-up menu, select the information you wish 
view or change, in this example, choose “Velocity”.
Along the bottom, you can see the velocity...

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Tutorial 3: Mixing
Introduction
In this chapter, we’ll show you how to get to a mix ready 
with proper levels, EQs and effects. Automation will be 
added and then well export the audio.
ÖThe following sections make references to tutorial 
projects, located in the default Sequel project folder.
Setting levels
The first thing that we need to do is set the levels for our 
project. This helps us get a great starting point for the mix 
so we can add EQ and effects later.
1.Select the Mixer page in the...

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Mute and Solo
For each track, there is a button for Mute and Solo. Mute 
will prevent you from hearing the track, and Solo will only 
play that track or tracks that have Solo enabled.
ÖYou can have several tracks muted or soloed at a time.
ÖWhen you Solo a track, the other tracks become 
muted.
To disable a Solo or Mute simply click the button again.
To simultaneously mute a track that is soloed and solo an-
other track, [Ctrl]/[Command]-click on the solo button of 
the track that...

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ÖYou can also see a visual representation of the EQ 
settings you are changing.
ÖYou can adjust the EQs level by raising or lowering the 
bass, middle, or treble gain slider. To do this, click and 
drag up or down on the desired slider.
The middle EQ is a parametric EQ. That means that the 
frequency range of this EQ can be widened or shortened. 
To do this, click on the middle width or “Q” slider and drag 
right to widen the range and left to shorten it.
To bypass the EQ, click the...

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5.Adjust the Threshold slider until the bass sounds 
smoother and there isn’t such a big difference between 
the notes that were played quieter versus the notes that 
were played a little louder.
6.Raise the “Channel Level” to compensate for the re-
duction in Gain that the compression has caused on the 
“Bass” track.
7.Next let’s add some flange to the “Synth” track to 
make it stand out a little bit more. Select the “Synth” track 
in the Arrange Zone.
8.Click on the first insert...