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Table of Contents
6 Introduction
7 Welcome
7 About this manual
7 Key command conventions
8 System requirements and installation
9 About this chapter
9 Minimum requirements
9 Installing Sequel
9 Activating Sequel
9 Register your software
10 Read on…
11 Tutorial 1: Recording
12 The tutorials
12 Recording audio
17 Recording Instrument parts
19 Tutorial 2: Editing
20 Introduction
20 Editing audio events
23 Editing Instrument parts
26 Tutorial 3: Mixing
27 Introduction
27 Setting levels
27 Setting Pan
28 Mute and Solo
28 Adding EQ
29 Audio Effects
31 Adding Automation
32 Exporting
34 Tutorial 4: Live Pads and Chain Play
mode
35 Introduction
35 Arranger parts
35 Live Mode
36 Chain Play Mode
37 The Pilot Zone
38 Introduction
38 The Sequel menu (Mac only)
38 The File and Edit menus
38 Minimizing, maximizing and closing
39 The File button/menu
40 The Edit button/menu
42 About the Project, Automation and Edit buttons
43 The Ruler Zone
44 The Tuner
44 The Transport controls
46 The Metronome
46 Computer Usage
46 The Pilot Zone display
48 The Arrange Zone
49 Introduction
49 Resizing the Arrange Zone
49 About tracks and track controls
52 Timeline and grid
52 Zooming in the Arrange Zone
53 Working with the Smart Tool
55 The Multi Zone
56 Introduction
56 The Mixer page
58 The Track Inspector page
62 The Media Bay page
65 The Editor page
70 The Arranger page
71 The Program Settings page
73 Advanced features
74 Introduction
74 Adding silence
75 Audio quantization and warp
77 Smart Transpose
79 One button record
80 Setting up your system
81 About this chapter
81 General notes on how to set up your system
81 Defragmenting the hard disk (Windows only)
81 MIDI requirements
81 Audio hardware
83 Setting up audio
86 Setting up MIDI
86 Optimizing audio performance
