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.
You sing, rap or play an instrument? Sequel gives you your own studio where you can record and rearrange your vocals or instruments. Produce your Sequel song with your very own production style and record your own vocals to produce a demo for a record label or your own MySpace page.
Be it disco basslines, guitar riffs, breakbeat loops even piano parts, you can find exactly the right sound or loop in just a few clicks with the MediaBay sound browser. Preview sounds with your song playing and if it fits, just drag into the project. You can use your own loops or add sounds from other companies.
With Sequel you can shape your song so that it sounds just the way you want it. Simply move and copy parts to set up your song structure in next to no time. Let Sequel do the work by automating settings like volume for the whole song. With the sleek, unique interface, you can edit and change loops or instruments you’ve recorded any way you want, for example by changing the pitch or length of a note or recorded instrument to match the song.
A real hit needs a pro mix. Sequel gives you all the tools and effects you need, including ones used by pros in their own studios. In Sequel, you’ve got a full mixer, equalizer for each track, and an armoury of effects that will get your music sounding punchy, polished and ready for radio. Export your mix as an audio file to burn to CD. Or send your song directly to iTunes to convert to MP3 and get it ready for podcasting.
Sequel lets you play, rearrange and remix your music live, on stage or in a club. Just load up the 16 live performance pads with song sections and variations, and create your own song live. Click on a section, loop it as often as you want and then fire off the next one, reacting to the crowd and keeping that dance floor packed! With Sequel you can come up with unlimited new ways of performing your songs live.
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
What's New in Sequel 2?
Sequel 2 offers you so many more new ways to produce your songs - but is just as accessible and easy to use as the first version!
Controller Mode
With the new Controller Mode you can control nearly all Sequel 2 functions with an external keyboard or hardware controller. So you can adjust the track volume with an external controller or you can mute a track with your keyboard. With the MIDI Learn function the allocation of the parameters is so easy: just click a parameter in Sequel 2 and move the desired knob, slider, key or button on your hardware. Now you can control the function with your external hardware.
Live performance without clicking a mouse
The new Controller Mode in Sequel 2 gives you so many options for live performance. You can trigger live pads or edit volume/tune and effects with your hardware controller to create a song on stage – including arranging and mixing – without even using the mouse!
Virtual Keyboard
If you don’t have a MIDI keyboard, you can still play melodies in Sequel 2. With the new Virtual Keyboard you just play the notes with your computer keyboard, ideal for composition on the move on your laptop.
Track Icons
Sequel 2 lets you allocate a Track Icon to each track. That helps you to find a track much faster within the Arrange Zone or the Editor. Sequel 2 comes with Icons for many of the most commonly used instruments. You can also change the size, and even tint or rotate the Track Icons. Or use your own pictures – with drag and drop!
Track Freeze
With the Track Freeze function you save CPU power for more tracks and effects! MIDI instruments and effects can use a lot of CPU power, especially on older computer. If you’re finding that the limits of your computer’s CPU has been reached, just click the “Freeze” button to freeze one or several tracks. If you want to change anything about a frozen track, just click the button to unfreeze the track and edit away.
Free Warp and Audio Reverse
Normally Sequel adjusts loops automatically to the tempo of the project. But for some audio material, you might find you have to make some manual adjustments for the tempo.
With the new Free Warp mode you can warp any part of an audio loop. Just set the warp anchor and move it to the desired time position. This function is also great for creative editing of loops. The Audio Reverse function is also a new feature of Sequel 2, and lets you play audio backwards – a cool effect for breaks!
Tap Tempo
With the new Tap Tempo function it is so easy to assign the tempo of each audio file or to fix the tempo of the song. Just activate the Learn Mode and click the beat with any key. Sequel 2 calculates and shows the tempo.
Improved MediaBay
The MediaBay in Sequel 2 shows how many loops are included within a (sub-)category. Categories with no hits are greyed out. This saves unnecessary clicks and helps you to find out the right loop or sound much faster.
Vista Core Audio Support
With Windows Vista Sequel 2 runs at very low latencies even without external ASIO hardware using the Vista Core Audio driver.
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-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
-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
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-1 GB RAM
-6 GB of free hard disk space
-OS X Version 10.4
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