Steinberg
are pleased to announce Steinberg
Sequel, a new easy-to-use music
studio (for both PC & Mac)
designed for first-time computer music enthusiasts. Steinberg Sequel combines
lightning-fast recording, editing and mixing with
on-board instruments and effects, plus powerful arranging and
performance features.
Steinberg Sequel
is a timeline-based audio and MIDI sequencing
application combined with a whole set of built-in studio-quality audio
effects, virtual instruments, track presets and a vast library of audio
and MIDI loops/phrases.
Sequel is
totally integrated. Instead of controlling
external MIDI devices or 3rd-party plug-ins and virtual instruments,
Sequel is a powerful sound-creation and processing device itself and
produces its own instrument sounds and effects. Besides recording,
editing and mixing audio and instruments, Sequel also offers powerful
pattern-style arranging features, a global transpose track, and a
unique live arrangement mode, which allows the user to remix/recombine
song-parts on the fly and play along with them.
Steinberg Sequel Interface
All recording, arranging, editing, and mixing are done from a
single window. This window can be changed in size and run in
near-full-screen mode on both platforms. The user interface itself is
highly icon/object-based and offers localised tool tips to describe
every function. Sequel is 99% identical on PC and Mac.
The Editor Page allows you to do advanced audio and instrument
editing. It shows the contents of whatever event is currently selected
in the Arrange Zone in Steinberg SQL in more detail. Here, the timing of events can be
corrected or a different rhythmic feel can be applied. Wrong notes can
be either corrected or erased & events can be transposed All of
these edit functions are available for both audio and Instrument
events. All Editing is non-destructive in Sequel.
Possibly the most powerful part of Sequel is its Arranger
mode. The Arranger Page takes any project to a new dimension by
allowing it to break free from the linear timeline. A pre-defined set
of sections of a song can now be recombined in many different ways or
even “played” in realtime. Sections that have been
defined on the Arranger Track in the Arrange Zone are automatically
mapped to Pads on the Arranger Page and these pads can be remapped.