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Tutorial 1: Recording
3. Make sure the Cycle button is activated.
4. Click the “Jump to previous marker” or “Jump to next
marker” buttons until the song position cursor is sitting di-
rectly on bar 2.
5. Press the space bar to start playback. Sequel will play
looping over and over again until you press the space bar
a second time.
Recording instrument parts
In this section we are going to take a look at recording in-
strument parts into a project using instrument tracks.
Creating an instrument track
Let’s start by adding an instrument track to our project.
1. Click the “Add New Track” button in the Pilot Zone.
2. In the dialog that appears, select the “Instrument” but-
ton.
3. Use the “Category” filter and choose a sound that fits in
with your song. We are going to select a Synth Pad sound.
4. Rename the track “Synth”. Feel free to give this track a
different name if you chose a different type of sound.
Recording
Now that we have a track and we have our sound, let’s
record something. Recording instrument parts is very sim-
ilar to recording audio events. Make sure you read the be-
ginning of this chapter where we discuss recording audio.
Ö Sequel automatically finds and uses any MIDI devices
that we have on our computer.
Ö The MIDI input to an instrument track is always set to
“All Inputs”.
1. Activate the “Record Ready” button for the track and
press a few keys on your MIDI keyboard. You should see
and hear the MIDI signals coming in to the right of the track.
2. Make sure the Cycle button is turned off.
3. Press the [.] key on your numeric keypad to set the
song position to bar 1. This will ensure that we start re-
cording at the start of the song.
4. Press the [*] key on your numeric keypad to start re-
cording. Record 4 bars.
5. Press the space bar when you are finished.
6. Turn off “Record Ready” so that we don’t hear the in-
put any more.
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Load the project called “Recording MIDI” found in
the “Sequel Tutorial 1” folder.