Steinberg Sequel Music Creation and Performance Software (Macintosh and Windows)

Product Description

Sequel is an affordable and easy-to-use music studio designed for first-time computer music enthusiasts. Combining intuitive tools to record, edit, mix and perform music with great-sounding loops, instruments and effects, Sequel is the perfect first step into music production and performance. Sequel runs on both PCs and Macs and comes with a massive library of more than 5000 loops, over 600 of ready-to-play instrument sounds, stunning effects and the same state-of-the-art audio engine that is preferred by many world-class producers all around the globe. It's never been more fun to create music on a computer!

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.
Sequel Content Sets

Sequel Content Sets are now available for Sequel 2! Now you can expand your Sequel sound library with hundreds of additional loops in different music styles, with loads of more loops in your favourite style!

Features:
Complete all-in-one package -- ready-to-use straight out of the box!

Record, edit and mix music in any popular style

More than 5000 loops from world-class producers included, covering popular styles like Hip-Hop, R&B, Dance, Electronic, Pop, Metal, World, and many more

More than 600 ready-to-play instrument sounds including more than 60 drum kits for various styles

Unique live performance mode for remixing/recombining songs on the fly

Seamless combination of linear and pattern based arranging

Audio and instrument parts follow tempo and key in realtime

Built-in studio-quality audio effects, including EQ and Dynamics in every channel

More than 50 Audio Track Presets for various instrument types, as well as vocals

Cross-Platform: Windows and Mac OS X Universal Binary zZounds is an authorized dealer of Steinberg products.

Minimum System Requirements

Mac

* Supported operating systems: Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6
* Power Mac G5 1.8 GHz or Intel Core Solo 1.5 GHz processor
* 1 GB RAM
* 6 GB of free hard disk space
* DVD drive required for installation
* Display resolution 1280x800 pixels
* CoreAudio compatible audio hardware is required
* Internet connection required for license activation

PC

* Supported operating systems: Windows XP (32-Bit), Windows Vista and Windows 7
* Pentium/Athlon 2 GHz desktop, 1.7 GHz mobile, or Core Duo 1.6 GHz processor
* 1 GB RAM
* 6 GB of free hard disk space
* DVD drive required for installation
* Display resolution 1280x800 pixels
* Windows DirectX compatible audio hardware; ASIO compatible audio hardware recommended for low-latency performance
* Internet connection required for license activation