Steinberg Sequel User Manual

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The Multi Zone
Chain Play
In Chain Play mode, you can create a preset order for the 
arrangement parts to play in.
Just select each pad in the order that you want it 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...

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Sequel Projects
Project Location
Click in this field to select the directory to store projects in 
on the hard drive. A dialog pops up allowing you to browse 
the hard drives and find a suitable location or select create 
to make a new folder.
User Content Location
Click in this field to set where you would like user created 
content to be stored. A dialog pops up allowing you to 
browse the hard drives and find a suitable location or se-
lect create to make a new folder.
Once set, this...

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Advanced features 

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Advanced features
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...

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Add silence to any other areas in the Guitar event that you 
think might need it.
Audio quantization and warp
Audio quantization and warp allow you to lock events to 
the project tempo. This is great for correcting audio that 
has bad timing.
The quantize function in Sequel is automatic and is great 
for quickly locking drum tracks to tempo.
Here we have a “Drums” event that has a few timing issues.
1.Start playback using the space bar to hear how the 
drum beat strays off time....

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Manual Adjust Beats
Sometimes, an event might need a bit of manual adjust-
ment as well. That’s where “Manual Adjust Beats” comes 
in handy. “Manual Adjust Beats” allows you to effortlessly 
stretch and warp audio as you please.
ÖNote that this function is only applicable to your own 
loop files. The factory content files cannot be adjusted 
manually this way.
ÖMake sure to read the entire section “Audio quantiza-
tion and warp” above before moving on.
1.Double-click on the “Drums”...

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6.Our goal now is to drag the grid to line up with the 
drum beats. Click on a grid point and drag it to the nearest 
drum beat.
 
7.Repeat this procedure for any beats that appear off 
time. Keep listening back to make sure that you are getting 
the desired result.
Congratulations! You have just successfully warped an au-
dio file to fit the bars and beats of your project. It doesn’t 
matter how off your audio is, because you can always warp 
it on time.
Smart Transpose
When you set...

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7.Click on the “03 105 Bb Guitar” event and go to the 
Editor page. Notice that the Root Key is “A#” and Trans-
pose is set to “0”.
8.Now click on the “02 112 D horns” event. Notice that 
the Root Key is “D” and Transpose is set to “-4”. Smart 
Transpose has automatically transposed the “02 112 D 
horns” loop to the closest interval.
9.Play what we have so far and hear that the guitar and 
horns are in the same key without any extraneous transpo-
sition.Let’s add a drum loop to the...

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Locking transpose
You can also lock the key of the loop using the “Transpose 
Lock” feature.
Drum, percussion and FX loops are transpose locked by 
default.
One button record
Normally, when you want to record something you need to 
record enable a track and click the Record button in the 
Pilot Zone. Recording will start after a two-bar count-in, 
and will end when you deactivate the Record button or 
stop playback.
Sequel provides a second recording mode that allows you 
to record...

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Setting up your system