This special package gives you the hardware and software to get your music from slowly going nowhere to quickly heading somewhere. With the M-Audio FireWire 410 Computer Recording Interface and the Sequel Software Music Studio, the only thing holding you back from making music is turning you computer on.

M-Audio Firewire 410 Computer Recording Interface
The M-Audio FireWire 410 Computer Recording Interface gives you everything you need: flexible routing, unsurpassed fidelity, superior driver technology, broad compatibility, zero-latency monitoring, bit-for-bit accurate digital transfers via S/PDIF, 24-bit/96kHz recording, and control over SCMS. 8 analog outs and 2 analog ins, configured for -10dB unbalanced signal level plus S/PDIF digital I/O on gold-plated RCA connectors. Perfect for combining with an analog mixer for a computer-based music recording system that behaves more like a traditional analog setup.

Sequel Software Music Studio
Sequel is an affordable and easy-to-use music studio designed for first-time computer music enthusiasts. Combining intuitive tools to record, edit, mix and perform music with great-sounding loops, instruments and effects, Sequel is the perfect first step into music production and performance. Sequel runs on both PCs and Macs and comes with a massive library of more than 5000 loops, over 600 of ready-to-play instrument sounds, stunning effects and the same state-of-the-art audio engine that is preferred by many world-class producers all around the globe.

Sequel turns you into a producer, and gives you your own fully loaded music studio. You need hip-hop beats for your latest track? Or want to surprise your friends at your next party with your own electro live-set? Sequel gives you everything you need to produce pro-quality tracks at home, on a plane, in the rehearsal room or even live at a club. And best of all, Sequel is so easy to use that you can get creating your own music straight away.

Want to get them bangin' their heads to Nu Metal or chill out to Ambient? Produce your own tracks in any 'now' musical style with over 5000 outstanding loops and over 600 instruments. Just a few minutes will see you creating your own songs, even if you can't play an instrument or don't have any musical knowledge at all. Because Sequel stays in the right key automatically, and never gets thrown out of rhythm, leaving you to get creative with your own music.

You sing, rap or play an instrument? Sequel gives you your own studio where you can record and rearrange your vocals or instruments. Produce your Sequel song with your very own production style and record your own vocals to produce a demo for a record label or your own MySpace page. Be it disco bass lines, guitar riffs, breakbeat loops even piano parts, you can find exactly the right sound or loop in just a few clicks with the MediaBay sound browser. Preview sounds with your song playing and if it fits, just drag into the project. You can use your own loops or add sounds from other companies.

With Sequel you can shape your song so that it sounds just the way you want it. Simply move and copy parts to set up your song structure in next to no time. Let Sequel do the work by automating settings like volume for the whole song. With the sleek, unique interface, you can edit and change loops or instruments you've recorded any way you want, for example by changing the pitch or length of a note or recorded instrument to match the song.

A real hit needs a pro mix. Sequel gives you all the tools and effects you need, including ones used by pros in their own studios. In Sequel, you've got a full mixer, equalizer for each track, and an armory of effects that will get your music sounding punchy, polished and ready for radio. Export your mix as an audio file to burn to CD. Or send your song directly to iTunes to convert to MP3 and get it ready for podcasting.

Sequel lets you play, rearrange and remix your music live, on stage or in a club. Just load up the 16 live performance pads with song sections and variations, and create your own song live. Click on a section, loop it as often as you want and then fire off the next one, reacting to the crowd and keeping that dance floor packed! With Sequel you can come up with unlimited new ways of performing your songs live.

M-Audio FireWire 410 with Steinberg Studio Bundle Specifications:

• M-Audio Firewire 410 Computer Recording Interface
• 4x10 24-bit/96kHz full-duplex recording interface
• 8 analog outs, -10dB unbalanced signal levels
• 2 analog ins, configured for -10dB unbalanced signal level
• S/PDIF digital I/O on gold-plated RCA connectors
• Settings include AC3 or DTS surround and copy protection schemes configurable with included control panel software
• High dynamic range (A-weighted measured): D/A 101.5 dB, A/D 99.6 dB
• Low distortion (measured THD @ 0dBFS): A/D and D/A less than 0.002%.
• Frequency response:
• 22-22kHz, -0.2,-0.4dB @48kHz
• 22-40kHz, -0.2,-0.7dB @96kHz
• All data paths support up to 24bit/96kHz performance
• Comprehensive digital mixing, routing, and monitoring capabilities
• with included Delta Control Panel software
• Hardware sample-accurate sync allows linking of multiple units
• Sequel Software Music Studio
  
  Minimum requirements
  
  Windows:
• Windows XP (Home or Professional), compatible with Win-
• dows Vista Home Basic
• Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon 2 GHz processor
• 1 GB RAM
• 6 GB of free hard disk space
• Windows DirectX compatible audio hardware; ASIO compati-
• ble audio hardware recommended for low latency performance.
• Display resolution of 1280x1024 pixels
• DVD ROM drive required for installation
• Internet connection required for license activation
  
  Macintosh:
• Mac OS X 10.4
• Power Mac G5 1.8 GHz or Core Solo 1.5 GHz
• 1 GB RAM
• 6 GB of free hard disk space
• Display resolution of 1280x1024 pixels
• CoreAudio compatible audio hardware
• DVD ROM drive required for installation

M-Audio FireWire 410 with Steinberg Studio Bundle Features:

• M-Audio Firewire 410 Computer Recording Interface
• Flexible routing
• Unsurpassed fidelity
• Superior driver technology
• Broadest compatibility of any card
• Zero latency monitoring
• Bit-for-bit accurate digital transfers via S/PDIF
• 24-bit/96kHz recording
• Control over SCMS
• Gold-plated jacks and connectors
• System requirements PC: Windows 95, 98, 2000, or ME; Pentium III 500 MHz and 128MB of PC100 RAM for 96kHz operation
• Pentium II 400 and 64MB of SDRAM for 48kHz operation
• System requirements Mac: MacOS 8.6 or higher; G4 or G3; 128MB RAM for 96kHz operation; 64MB RAM for 48kHz operation
  
  Sequel Software Music Studio
• Complete all-in-one package - ready-to-use straight out of the box!
• Record, edit and mix music in any popular style
• More than 5000 loops from world-class producers included, covering popular styles like hip-hop, R&B, dance, electronic, pop, metal, world, and many more
• More than 600 ready-to-play instrument sounds including more than 60 drum kits for various styles
• Unique live performance mode for remixing/recombining songs on the fly
• Seamless combination of linear and pattern based arranging
• Audio and instrument parts follow tempo and key in realtime
• Built-in studio-quality audio effects, including EQ and Dynamics in every channel
• More than 50 Audio Track Presets for various instrument types, as well as vocals
• Cross-Platform: Windows and Mac OS X Universal Binary
  
  Files and Formats (Import and Export)
• Recording format: Stereo WAV16-bit or 24-bit with 44.1 kHz sampling rate (CD quality)
• Supported file formats (import, drag & drop): WAV, AIFF, MP3, WMA, WMA Pro, OggVorbis, Standard MIDI file (SMF)
• Export: WAV, AIFC, AIFF, WAV64, OggVorbis
• Export project to iTunes: one-step mixdown/export function opens iTunes with new track in destination format (iTunes converter, including MP3, AAC, and Apple Lossless)
• CD burning provided using iTunes (pre-installed on Macs, free download for PC)
• SMF (Standard MIDI File) import and playback
  
  Audio
• Audio recording with up to eight simultaneous tracks
• Unlimited number of audio tracks (only limited by CPU performance)
• Audio resolution: 16-bit or 24-bit at 44.1 kHz
• Internal Resolution: 32-bit floating point
  
  Editing
• SmartTool changes its function depending on the mouse position. Available options: Move, Trim, Cut, Copy, Loop, and Mute/Unmute
• Audio Editor with realtime audio warp functions (realtime time stretching and pitch shifting)
• Warp Modes: Mix, Drums, Plucked, Pads, Vocals, Solo
• Key Editor for internal instruments with note event and controller editing
• Note Quantize with variable Swing
• Legato Slider for dynamic note length editing
• Step Record Mode
  
  Mixing
• Dynamic Track Mixer with Volume, Pan, EQ, Compressor, two variable inserts, two variable send effects
• Additional Event Effects for Instrument Tracks (Arpeggiator and Chorder)
• Master Output channel with two variable Output Effects (Inserts) plus two fixed Master Effects (Stereo Enhancer and Maximizer)
• Automation of Volume, Pan, Mute, EQ, Bypass, plus all effect parameters, and instrument quick controls in instrument tracks
  
  Arranger
• Realtime Arranging based on Arranger Parts; up to 15 parts can be assigned to Cue Pads for realtime arranging/remixing
• "Live Pads" or "Chain Play" modes
• Variable Jump interval (Now, 1 Beat, 1 Bar, 2 Bars, 4 Bars, End)
• Stop Pad for break/end
• Chain Play: up to 15 Chains per Project; up to 99 steps per Chain
• Realtime Transpose for audio and instrument events.
• Project Key provides fixed global transpose for entire project
• Global Transpose Track holds transpose events for global song transpose per bar / beat.
  
  Effects
• Delay: Ping Pong Delay, Stereo Delay
• Distortion: Amp Simulator, Distortion
• Dynamics: Compressor, Gate, Maximizer
• Modulation: Auto Pan, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Rotary, Tremolo, Vibrato
• Roomworks SE, Stereo Enhancer, Dual Filter
• Channel Equalizer: three-band with Lo/Hi Shelving EQ (w/ variable frequency), fully parametric mid-band with variable frequency and Q.
• Fixed compressor in each channel
• Two variable Track Effects (Inserts) perchannel
• Two Global Effects (Sends) per channel
• Two variable Master Track Effects (Inserts)
• Two fixed Master Effects: Stereo Enhancer, Maximizer (Inserts)
  
  Instruments
• Integrated virtual instruments with hundreds of presets
• Up to 128-voice polyphony (defined by preset)
• Quick Control editing per track
• New sounds can be saved as track presets
• Arpeggiator, Chorder
  
  Content
• More than 5000 Loops (2000 instrument loops, 3000 audio loops)
• More than 600 instrument presets
• More than 50 audio track presets
• More than 150 effects presets
  
  Style Categories
• Pop: Britpop, Pop/Rock, Teen Pop, Chart Dance, 80's Pop, Dancehall, Disco)
• Electronica/Dance: Minimal, Classic House, Elektro House, Funky House, Industrial, Electronic Body Music, Trip Hop, Techno, Drum&OOEF;n&OOEF;Bass/Jungle, Elektro, Trance, Dub, Big Beats
• Urban (Hip-Hop/RB): Classic R&B, Modern R&B, R&B Pop, WestCoast Hip-Hop, EastCoast Hip-Hop, Rap/Hip Hop, Soul, Funk
• Rock/Metal: Blues-Rock, Hard Rock, Rock & Roll, Singer/Songwriter, Heavy Metal, Death/Black Metal, NuMetal, Reggae, Ballad, Alternative Rock, Rockabilly , Thrash Metal, Progressive Rock
• Alternative/Indie: Goth Rock, Grunge, New Wave, Punk, College Rock, Dark Wave, Hardcore
• Country: Country/Western, Honky Tonk, Urban Cowboy, Bluegrass, Americana, Squaredance , North American Folk
• Jazz: New Orleans Jazz, Traditional Jazz, Oldtime Jazz/Dixiland, Fusion, Avantgarde, Latin Jazz, Free Jazz, Ragtime
• Blues: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Electric Blues, Chicago Blues
• Classical: Baroque, Chamber Music, Medieval, Modern Composition, Opera, Gregorian, Renaissance, Classic, Romantic, Soundtrack
• Ambient/ChillOut: New Age/Meditation, Dark Ambient, Downtempo, Lounge
• World/Ethnic: Africa, Asia, Celtic, Europe, Klezmer, Scandinavia , Eastern Europe, India/Oriental, North America, South America, Australia
• Experimental: New Music, Free Improvisation, Electronic Art Music, Noise

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