Steinberg Sequel 2 Music Production Software    Item #: STE SEQUEL2 

The Steinberg Sequel 2 Music Production Software gives you a fully-loaded music studio right on your computer.
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. 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. It’s never been more fun to create music on a computer!

Combining intuitive tools to record, edit, mix and perform music with great-sounding loops, instruments and effects, Sequel 2 is the perfect first step into music production and performance.

Steinberg Sequel 2 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

Your Own Recording Studio
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.

Know Where it's at with MediaBay
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, add Sequel Content Sets or also sounds from other companies.

Rearrange Songs on the Fly
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. You can control all settings by nearly any external controller. 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. And Sequel 2 also allows you to get tactile with your project with full support for external hardware controllers!

Mix Like a Pro
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 armory 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.

Live On Stage
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 or hit a key or button on a controller, 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.

New to Sequel 2

• Plug right into Sequel 2 with almost any hardware controller or keyboard, with easy setup thanks to the new Controller Learn feature
• Live control of your performances using a MIDI keyboard or external hardware controller
• Play melodies and chords without MIDI keyboard using the PC keyboard or mouse
• Find tracks in your projects faster with Track Icons to label your tracks visually
• Track Freeze for more CPU power – more tracks, more Sequel!
• Find your files faster with improved MediaBay handling and overview
• Even more creativity with audio in the new Sample Editor with Free Warp and Audio Reverse
• Set your project tempo by tapping it on a PC or MIDI Keyboard
• Low latency on Windows Vista even with no ASIO sound device thanks to Windows Vista Core Audio (Vista only)

Minimum System Requirements
Performance measurements based on a typical project with an average 12 tracks (incl. 3-5 instrument tracks), global effects, compressor and EQ per track, measured at 512 samples buffer-size. Slower computers can still be used but with fewer tracks and/or higher buffer-size. A more powerful system may be required for certain tasks or larger projects.

Mac

• Mac OS X v10.4
• 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 1280 x 800 pixels
• CoreAudio compatible audio hardware is required
• Internet connection required for license activation

PC

• Windows XP Home/Professional or Windows Vista
• 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 1280 x 800 pixels
• Windows DirectX compatible audio hardware; ASIO compatible audio hardware recommended for low latency performance
• Internet connection required for license activation