Post-production, mastering and broadcast

Renowned studios around the globe count on the reliability, intuitive workflow and innovative editing tools offered by Sequoia Pro. Broadcasters use the flexible network and hardware integration, while expert sound engineers rely on its steadfast performance for studio and live recording. Read about their experiences here.

Mastering

The best mastering engineers in the world rely on Sequoia Pro for their most important projects. Discover seamless workflows and diverse professional tools and functions including object-based editing, artifact-free resampling algorithms and multi-codec export. The greatest advantage of all: Sequoia Pro simply sounds better. The high-performance audio engine delivers unparalleled sound.

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Live and classical productions

When it comes to audio production for concerts, stability and reliability are of the utmost importance. Professionals such as Antony King work exclusively with Sequioa Pro for track-intensive projects. Whether for pop, rock or symphony orchestra, Sequoia Pro effortlessly handles up to 512 inputs and offers consistent performance. It also offers innovative features such as multi-synchronous cut and source/destination editing.

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Broadcasting

Time and stability are crucial factors for broadcasting. That's why major broadcasters such as ARD, ZDF and radiofrance rely on Sequoia Pro and its direct and fast connection to the latest broadcast CMS and automation systems. The ultra-powerful audio engine allows for material to be edited and directly broadcast to stations even while recording is in progress.

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HYBRID Audio Engine

With its intelligent latency management, the Hybrid Audio Engine delivers uncompromising audio quality. Reduced response time when calculating track effects allows for live monitoring at lower latencies. In addition, the integrated High Latency Engine ensures more effective system utilization and the integration of sophisticated object, AUX & Surround functions. Create flawless 32-bit float recordings and achieve maximum precision at up to 384 kHz. Take advantage of unsurpassed clarity and detail for your most demanding projects.

New features
Sequoia Pro

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Improved comping

Get the perfect take in next to no time - switch effortlessly between different recordings, select the best sections, and edit them together directly under each track in the project.

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Improved export function

Export your projects in several codecs simultaneously and in several formats such as Surround and stereo. The new export list lets you select multiple projects for export.

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Marker track

Markers are displayed on multiple lines, allowing you to keep an overview of all essential information. You can create markers in different colors, edit them together or move them.

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Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 11

SpectraLayers 11 offers new AI algorithms for the repair of speech and music as well as many helpful new features, including process chains, a batch processing function and volume envelopes. Whether for music, sound design, restoration or repair - SpectraLayers 11 sets new quality standards for spectral audio processing.

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Includes SOUND FORGE Pro 17

SOUND FORGE Pro has set audio editing standards for artists, producers, and sound and mastering engineers for over three decades. With precise tools, innovative editing functions, and high-end plug-ins, you can create masters for podcasts, broadcast, physical media or streaming in accordance with international standards. The latest version is now part of the comprehensive editing suite included in Sequoia Pro 17.

Basic functions
A comprehensive toolkit

Celemony Melodyne Essential

Melodyne provides access to precise musical details in your recordings and samples - note by note. It analyzes and identifies relationships in your recordings and samples, such as individual notes and their properties, the scales and chords used, timing, tempo and sound. You can then edit all these details intuitively using Melodyne.

coreFX Suite

10 powerful effect plug-ins

Experience mixing and mastering at the highest level of creativity. coreFX Suite comes with nine basic effects and countless applications – rhythm effects, dynamics control, modulation effects for adding fullness and space, as well as the latest function for automating basic editing tasks.

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colorFX Suite

Color your sound

Discover distinctive emulators for masters and groups: Tape Machine, Bitcrusher and Tube Distortion. Add sounds to your productions that range from soft analog shimmer to digital distortion. colorFX Suite combines the sound and warmth of analog with digital flexibility.

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iZotope RX 10 Elements

Quickly and easily remove unwanted noise, "s" sounds, clicks, and other elements from your audio files. Whether you're editing a podcast, recording a full band, or working on a feature film, RX 10 brings out the best in your audio.

iZotope Ozone 11 Elements

iZotope Ozone Elements contains a wide range of presets and macro controls for a faster, more precise mastering process. Automatically match your audio to a reference track and control dynamics and range using 10 powerful tools for perfect sound.

dynamicEQ

Enjoy simplified, more precise mixing, and apply frequency processing in exact locations to enhan-ce your audio. Dynamically boost, attenuate and shape sounds throughout your project with maximum precision and level control. The new oversampling feature significantly reduces aliasing effects in signals and allows you to mix with virtually no noise.

3D Reverb

Powerful algorithms use geometric models to generate virtual rooms ranging from small recording studios to concert halls. The tool calculates early reflections based on track panning and phasing to create highly realistic room and reverb sounds. 3D Reverb supports both your mix and dynamic effects in up to native 9.1 Surround sound and enables you to extrapolate additional channels.

47 virtual instruments

All Vita Solo Instruments can be used in Sequoia Pro. These virtual instruments offer impressive sound design, intuitive controls and a huge range of modulation options.

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"Sequoia really changed the way I master, specifically the object editor."

Heba Kadry
Mixing and mastering engineer

Credentials
Björk, RAC (Tearing Me Up Remix, Grammy winning), Alex G, Jackie OST (Mica Levi), Neon Indian

"Sequoia maintains 100% sound neutrality and fidelity throughout its processing and it includes a vast array of professional plug-ins, extensive metering and loudness measurement tools, excellent restoration tools, including 'Spectral Cleaning' and 'Denoising', and a realtime AAC, MP3 preview plug-in."

George Seara
Mixing and recording engineer

Credentials
Shawn Mendes, Ed Sheeran, Rihanna, Drake, Herbie Hancock, Sting | Thriller 25th Anniversary Album | Fast And The Furious 7 (OST)

"Over the years, I have made recordings (both as producer and engineer) for many labels which have been quite successful. I really do love this program!"

Steven Epstein
Grammy award-winning producer, recording, mixing & mastering engineer

Credentials
15 Grammies & 2 Latin Grammies | Yo-Yo Ma, Chic Corea, James Taylor, Bobby McFerrin, Wynton Marsalis, Isaac Stern, Lorin Maazel | Former Sony Masterworks Senior Executive Producer

"Sequoia is the most comprehensive and complete workstation, period. It excels as it fulfills all of my needs as a mastering engineer."

Jonathan Wyner
Mastering engineer and Director of Education at iZotope

Credentials
David Bowie, Nirvana, Aerosmith, James Taylor | Director of Education at iZotope

"I switched to Sequoia because of the sound and the ease and workability of the layout. And I can't go back. Plain and simple."

Mitch Malloy
Producer, engineer, recording artist, songwriter, rock artist

Credentials
Taylor Swift, Van Halen, Great White, Boys Like Girls, Kenny Loggins

"One thing that impresses me about Sequoia is the "complete" character of its design. The software does not specialize; whatever domain you use it for (production, broadcasting, mastering, film scoring)..."

Olivier Glissant
Composer, producer and conductor

Credentials
Philip Glass, Norah Jones, Bill Frisel | Brooklyn Orchestra

"I've been using Samplitude and Sequoia for almost 20 years now, and I can’t imagine working without them."

Oleksa Lozowchuk
Music director, composer and producer

Credentials
Damian Taylor (The Prodigy, Evanescence, Björk) | Dead Rising 2, 3 & 4 (Capcom Vancouver) | Former Music Director at Capcom Vancouver | Music for Apple, Disney, Microsoft, McDonald's

"The program is by far the most efficient DAW out there on the market."

Bruce Somers
Producer, songwriter, sound & mastering engineer

Credentials
Founding member of the Kidneythieves | Marilyn Manson, Pussycat Dolls, Good Charlotte

"Sequoia not only gives me a digital first aid kit to solve any problem. It provides a modular toolbox with precise instruments, a rock-solid audio engine and great support, to adapt to nearly any task and situation I can think of."

Terence Goodchild
Live audio engineer

Credentials
Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds, Johann Johannson, Lambert, Kiasmos, Helen Grimaud, Deutsche Grammophon