Description
What’s new in Sequoia 16
It’s the details that let you work more efficiently. Sequoia 16 is all about perfecting workflows.
Your business should have the best tools in audio production – welcome to the new Sequoia.
- High quality resampling: Get the best-sounding algorithm for your resampling tasks right now.
- 3D Reverb – make room for your sounds: Go beyond stereo reverb and experience realistic space in 3D Audio
- ARA2 – even more, even better: Integrate Melodyne even faster and use multiple instances of ARA2
- AAF export improved – transcending platforms: Ensure hassle-free exchange of Ambisonics data with other software
- Automation Pre-Listening Mode and Automation Shapes: Try different rides before committing and select predefined curves for smooth transitions
- Monitoring section – switch to surround and back: Create different playback routings and switch back and forth inside the box
- Independent panning on different buses: Tab through different output choices right next to your pan knobs
- Hold your cuts together with slip left: Cut out sections at the beginning while still recording and let your objects slip right next to the live take ready for export
Metering and matching loudness
The metering display in Sequoia enables you to work with absolute precision. Access a range of visual layouts and set up your own private “cockpit” with different metering indicators. The following presets are also available for radio and TV broadcast norms: Type I, DIN scale – Type I, Nordic scale Type IIA, BBC -Type IIB, EBU.
Due to the inaccuracies of a sample peak meter, it’s not possible to avoid clipping or distortion in the analog output if the individual samples in the original aren’t at full scale. So, a normal peak meter cannot represent “real” peak values. Inter-sample peaks identified by oversampling by a factor of 4 can now be displayed and allow you to see “real” peaks.
Loudness metering
This plug-in enables you to adjust loudness and dynamics in accordance with international broadcasting standards EBU R128 und ITU-R BS.1770 for TV and radio programs. In Sequoia, you can switch between EBU R128 and ITU-R BS.1771 loudness measuring on the fly.
Cleaning and restoring
Especially useful for post-editing live recordings and interviews containing noises from moving chairs, cell phones and coughing: Audio disturbances can be easily selected for removal with the mouse. Elements that have gone missing from the original frequency spectrum are recalculated into the recording using interpolation or transitions from the surrounding usable signal.
As part of the Spectral Cleaning you can limit interpolation to certain amplitudes in the spectrum. Specific notes can be removed from the spectrum without influencing background signals. Quieter or louder signal components outside the area will not be affected.
The logarithmic display allows you to change the spectrum view from linear to logarithmic. Switch to logarithmic display when working in low frequency ranges for improved display of the ranges and to enable precise changes in the material.
The external audio editor visualizes the frequency spectrum in layers and enables a whole new workflow for restoration, sound design and mixing. Intuitive operation, high performance audio engine and audio editing in 3D make SpectraLayers Pro one of the world’s most revolutionary spectral editing platforms.
Specifications
Sequoia is developed with user-friendliness in mind so that all the basic features run smoothly and can be fully controlled, even on low-performance computers. Some advanced program features demand more of your computer’s processing power. To get the most from these features, your system should at least meet the recommended requirements.
Minimum system requirements
Operating system: Microsoft® Windows 10, 8, 7
Processor: 2 GHz
RAM: 2 GB (32-bit version), 4 GB (64-bit version)
Graphics card: Onboard, minimum resolution 1024 x 768
Sound card: Onboard
Hard drive space: 2 GB for minimal installation, 90 GB for Independence
Program languages: English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Italiano
Internet connection: Required for registering and validating the program, as well as for some program features. Program requires one-time registration.
Supported file formats
Import
Audio: AAC, AIFF, Broadcast WAV, FLAC, MIDI standard formats (MID, GM, GS, XG), MP3², OGG Vorbis, SD2, WAV, WAV with codec, WMA
Video: AVC-Intra, DV-AVI, DVCPRO¹, H.264, HDV HD1, HDV HD2, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MXV, WMV(HD)
Other: Audio CD, Data CD/DVD, DDP
¹ Fee-based activation
² Requires Microsoft Media Player 10
Export
Audio: AAC, AIFF, Broadcast WAV, FLAC, MIDI standard formats (MID, GM, GS, XG), MP3², OGG Vorbis, WAV, WAV with codec, WMA
Other: Audio CD, Data CD/DVD, DDP
