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The Sequel to Sequel: Steinberg Ships Sequel 2 and Add-on Content

by Jesse JJ Jame
published Tue, 22 Jul 2008 – 15:26:41 +0000 UTCNo Comment

Buena Park, Calif. — Steinberg North America today announced the shipping of Sequel 2, a new version of Steinberg’s successful music creation and live performance software. Sequel 2 introduces new features, including a hardware Controller Learn mode, Track Freeze, a virtual keyboard, Track Icons and many more. “This new release builds on the successful launch of Sequel last year, with more functionality that makes music creation even more creative and fun, while making no compromises on ease-of-use and accessibility,” comments Nadine Roos, Steinberg’s Marketing Manager for Sequel.

“Many Cubase owners will also find Sequel an attractive, mobile composition tool for sketching out musical ideas, with the included content and the new Sequel Content Sets add even more audio content to fuel creativity.”

The new features include a unique Controller Learn Mode, which allows extremely easy setup for almost any hardware controller to offer tactile control over practically any Sequel 2 function, instrument or parameter. Track Freeze enhances CPU efficiency, while the new Track Icons visually label tracks, making them easy to find and adding an attractive new element to the Sequel user interface. The Sequel MediaBay sound management system has also been improved, while new the new Audio Reverse effect and the Audio Warp features offer even more creative options.

Steinberg has also released three new Sequel Content Sets for the genres of Rock, Industrial and Hip Hop. Each content set adds 200-300 top quality loops in the respective style, and are available from www.steinberg.net.

Sequel 2 is currently available at authorized Steinberg retailers for $99. Updates to Sequel 2 from the previous version are available exclusively from Steinberg’s online store for $29.

About Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH
Steinberg is known the world over for its professional media solutions. The company has been developing, manufacturing and selling software products for musicians and producers in the music, film, post production, and multimedia industries since 1984. Steinberg products are used by GrammyÂ® and OscarÂ® award winning composers, engineers, and producers.

[tags]Steinberg Sequel 2, Nadine Roos, Rock Industrial and Hip Hop loops[/tags]

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JJ Jame is a percussionist and home-brew theremin player, formerly a member of the Redondo Beach based BoyRacer.com electronica band, and a long-time electronic music fan, as well as formerly an editor for the defunct EMcult website that Christopher Simmons launched in 1997 but soon abandoned (in many ways this site, MIN, is the stepchild of that project). JJ wants high-speed rail to criss-cross California sooner than later, and is madly in love with local Fox 11 TV personality Lauren Sanchez.