The key to what differentiates both Samplitude and Sequoia are their object-oriented editing tools. While Sequoia inherits a few of those problems, such as its cluttered and sometimes less-than-responsive UI, for the most part Sequoia functions as an excellent digital audio workstation on par with Pro Tools, PreSonus Studio One, and others. Read that review if you want a basic rundown of how the UI works, along with its standout features and some minor issues I encountered. I'm not going to go over every main feature and component of Sequoia, because so much of it mirrors what's included with Samplitude Pro X4. On the plus side, the included hardcover manual is beautifully produced, as it should be for almost three grand. Chances are you won't be carrying Sequoia around with the dongle sticking out of a laptop and risking breakage. Here I can be somewhat more understanding, given that Sequoia is a $3,000 program designed for a desktop PC installation in a mastering studio with impeccable acoustics and all kinds of boutique outboard hardware. Sequoia also uses a hardware dongle for program activation, which I would normally ding as a big negative. I eventually secured an external one and installed the program. Unlike Samplitude, Sequoia comes on DVD-which threw me for a loop momentarily, as I hadn't added a DVD drive to my latest PC build and hadn't had any need for one recently. As with Samplitude Pro X4, Sequoia 15 now supports up to 32 CPU cores, so if you've got the hardware up front, you shouldn't have a problem running out of CPU power. For this review, I tested Sequoia 15 on a custom-built, high-end Core i7-6900K PC with eight physical cores, a Gigabyte GA-X99-Ultra Gaming motherboard, 16GB of DDR4 RAM, a 1TB Intel NVMe SSD. That said, this being a digital audio workstation, you'll want as much speed and power as you can afford. Magix doesn't list Sequoia-specific requirements, but it does say all you need for Samplitude Pro X4 is 4GB of RAM and a 2GHz processor.

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