Steinberg Sequel 2

Steinberg Sequel 2 Description

Sequel turns you into a producer, and gives you your own fully-loaded music studio. You need HipHop beats for your latest track? Or want to surprise your friends at your next party with your own electro live-set? Sequel gives you everything you need to produce pro-quality tracks at home, on a plane, in the rehearsal room or even live at a club.

And best of all, Sequel is so easy to use that you can get creating your own music straight away.

Want to get them bangin’ their heads to NuMetal or chill out to Ambient? Produce your own tracks in any ‘now’ musical style with over 5000 outstanding loops and over 600 instruments. Just a few minutes will see you creating your own songs, even if you can’t play an instrument or don’t have any musical knowledge at all. Because Sequel stays in the right key automatically, and never gets thrown out of rhythm, leaving you to get creative with your own music.

Files and Formats (Import and Export)

• Recording format: Stereo WAV16-bit or 24-bit with 44.1 kHz sampling rate (CD quality)
• Supported file formats (import, drag & drop): WAV, AIFF, MP3, WMA, WMA Pro, OggVorbis, Standard MIDI file (SMF)
• Export: WAV, AIFC, AIFF, WAV64, OggVorbis
• Export project to iTunes: one-step mixdown/export function opens iTunes with new track in destination format (iTunes converter, including MP3, AAC, and Apple Lossless)
• CD burning provided using iTunes (pre-installed on Macs, free download for PC)
• SMF (Standard MIDI File) import and playback

Audio

• Audio recording with up to eight simultaneous tracks
• Unlimited number of audio tracks (only limited by CPU performance)
• Audio resolution: 16-bit or 24-bit at 44.1 kHz
• Internal Resolution: 32-bit floating point

Editing

• SmartTool changes its function depending on the mouse position. Available options: Move, Trim, Cut, Copy, Loop, and Mute/Unmute
• Audio Editor with realtime audio warp functions (realtime time stretching and pitch shifting)
• Warp Modes: Mix, Drums, Plucked, Pads, Vocals, Solo
• Key Editor for internal instruments with note event and controller editing
• Note Quantize with variable Swing
• Legato Slider for dynamic note length editing
• Step Record Mode

Mixing

• Dynamic Track Mixer with Volume, Pan, EQ, Compressor, two variable inserts, two variable send effects
• Additional Event Effects for Instrument Tracks (Arpeggiator and Chorder)
• Master Output channel with two variable Output Effects (Inserts) plus two fixed Master Effects (Stereo Enhancer and Maximizer)
• Automation of Volume, Pan, Mute, EQ, Bypass, plus all effect parameters, and instrument quick controls in instrument tracks

Arranger

• Realtime Arranging based on Arranger Parts; up to 15 parts can be assigned to Cue Pads for realtime arranging/remixing
• “Live Pads” or “Chain Play” modes
• Variable Jump interval (Now, 1 Beat, 1 Bar, 2 Bars, 4 Bars, End)
• Stop Pad for break/end
• Chain Play: up to 15 Chains per Project; up to 99 steps per Chain
• Realtime Transpose for audio and instrument events.
• Project Key provides fixed global transpose for entire project
• Global Transpose Track holds transpose events for global song transpose per bar / beat.

Effects

• Delay: Ping Pong Delay, Stereo Delay
• Distortion: Amp Simulator, Distortion
• Dynamics: Compressor, Gate, Maximizer
• Modulation: Auto Pan, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Rotary, Tremolo, Vibrato
• Roomworks SE, Stereo Enhancer, Dual Filter
• Channel Equalizer: three-band with Lo/Hi Shelving EQ (w/ variable frequency), fully parametric mid-band with variable frequency and Q.
• Fixed compressor in each channel
• Two variable Track Effects (Inserts) perchannel
• Two Global Effects (Sends) per channel
• Two variable Master Track Effects (Inserts)
• Two fixed Master Effects: Stereo Enhancer, Maximizer (Inserts)

Instruments

• Integrated virtual instruments with hundreds of presets
• Up to 128-voice polyphony (defined by preset)
• Quick Control editing per track
• New sounds can be saved as track presets
• Arpeggiator, Chorder

Content

• More than 5000 Loops (2000 instrument loops, 3000 audio loops)
• More than 600 instrument presets
• More than 50 audio track presets
• More than 150 effects presets

Style Categories

• Pop: Britpop, Pop/Rock, Teen Pop, Chart Dance, 80's Pop, Dancehall, Disco)
• Electronica/Dance: Minimal, Classic House, Elektro House, Funky House, Industrial, Electronic Body Music, Trip Hop, Techno, Drum´n´Bass/Jungle, Elektro, Trance, Dub, Big Beats
• Urban (Hip-Hop/RB): Classic R&B, Modern R&B, R&B Pop, WestCoast Hip-Hop, EastCoast Hip-Hop, Rap/Hip Hop, Soul, Funk
• Rock/Metal: Blues-Rock, Hard Rock, Rock & Roll, Singer/Songwriter, Heavy Metal, Death/Black Metal, NuMetal, Reggae, Ballad, Alternative Rock, Rockabilly , Thrash Metal, Progressive Rock
• Alternative/Indie: Goth Rock, Grunge, New Wave, Punk, College Rock, Dark Wave, Hardcore
• Country: Country/Western, Honky Tonk, Urban Cowboy, Bluegrass, Americana, Squaredance , North American Folk
• Jazz: New Orleans Jazz, Traditional Jazz, Oldtime Jazz/Dixiland, Fusion, Avantgarde, Latin Jazz, Free Jazz, Ragtime
• Blues: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Electric Blues, Chicago Blues
• Classical: Baroque, Chamber Music, Medieval, Modern Composition, Opera, Gregorian, Renaissance, Classic, Romantic, Soundtrack
• Ambient/ChillOut: New Age/Meditation, Dark Ambient, Downtempo, Lounge
• World/Ethnic: Africa, Asia, Celtic, Europe, Klezmer, Scandinavia , Eastern Europe, India/Oriental, North America, South America, Australia
• Experimental: New Music, Free Improvisation, Electronic Art Music, Noise

System Requerements

• PC
  • Pentium / Athlon 2 GHz desktop, 1.7 GHz mobile, or Dual Core 1.6 GHz processor 
  • 1 GB RAM 
  • 6 GB of free hard disk space 
  • Windows XP Home (SP2) or Windows Vista Home Basic 
  • Display Resolution 1280 x 800 pixels 
  • Windows DirectX compatible audio hardware; ASIO compatible audio hardware recommended for low latency performance 
  • DVD-ROM drive 
  • Internet access required for license activation
• Mac
  • Power Mac G5 1.8 GHz or Intel Core Solo 1.5 GHz processor
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 6 GB of free hard disk space
  • OS X Version 10.4
  • Display Resolution 1280 x 800 pixels
  • CoreAudio compatible audio hardware
  • DVD-ROM drive
  • Internet access required for license activation