Providing reliability, an intuitive workflow, and flexible integration in the studio and live environment, the Boris FX Sequoia 17 is a leading DAW designed for broadcasters and advanced audio engineers working in the recording, mixing, and mastering fields. The integrated Hybrid Audio Engine delivers uncompromising audio quality with intelligent latency management, resulting in flawless 32-bit float recordings, to achieve maximum precision at up to 384 kHz. Sequoia 17 utilizes object-based editing, allowing you to break your tracks into as many objects as you need and position them anywhere on the timeline. Every object has custom fades, effects, automations, and routing, while giving you real-time control over every parameter, so you can tweak, refine, and perfect your sound at the most granular level. Sequoia effortlessly handles up to 512 inputs and offers consistent performance with innovative features such as multisynchronous cut and source/destination editing. Discover seamless workflows and diverse professional tools and functions, including artifact-free resampling algorithms and multicodec export.
What's New in Sequoia 17
Optimized Design, Faster Workflow
Expand your creative possibilities and experience Sequoia in a modern flat design. Discover Dolby Atmos, the immersive 3D audio format, and use the new ADM Editor to handle metadata accurately. Plus, simplify your production process with enhanced recording formats, optimized plug-in workflows, timing tools, and easily merge different takes.
Dolby Atmos
Enjoy a new dimension of audio production. Use integrated Dolby Atmos to place and move sounds accurately in 3D space. Create immersive soundscapes that go beyond traditional surround sound. Take your music, broadcast, and audiobook productions to the highest level.
ADM Editor
The ADM Editor enables structured management and clear presentation of ADM (Audio Definition Model) metadata for immersive audio formats such as Dolby Atmos. The editor allows you to organize your ADM metadata and keep track of it throughout the entire production process, from creation to final ADM export.
Range Marker + Export
Organize your project into multiple sections and distinguish them visually. Use the range marker export to precisely select the tracks and sections you want to export. Export stems without having to mute or solo tracks manually.
ARA2 Plug-Ins on Tracks
ARA2 supports the integration of plug-ins such as Celemony Melodyne. It enables the direct transfer of tempo and pitch values, volume, and intonation, as well as display and playback all objects on a track. It's a real game changer for your workflow.
External Hardware Integration
Easily integrate an unlimited number of external hardware effects as latency-compensated plug-ins in the Sequoia mixer. This makes working with effect devices more intuitive and straightforward. Experience more creative possibilities and more flexible routing.
Acon Digital Acoustica 7 Premium Edition
Sequoia includes the latest version of Acon Digital's spectral cleanup tool, Acoustica 7.7. Acoustica 7.7 offers a comprehensive toolkit of high-precision processing tools to craft distinctive and original sound design. The AI-powered Remix tool can split an audio file into five stems, allowing you to adjust their levels in real time. Acoustica 7 features state-of-the-art spectral editing and a suite of mastering, audio restoration, and dialogue cleanup tools.
CrumplePop
CrumplePop's AI-powered audio restoration plug-ins are the fastest and easiest way to remove noise and other unwanted sounds from your vocal recordings. Whether it's echo, background noise, uneven levels, traffic, or more, all you need to do is apply CrumplePop to your project, adjust how much noise removal you want, and that's it. Unlike other tools that rely on cloud processing, CrumplePop works entirely on your local machine, keeping your data private and secure.
Additional Details
Improved Comping
- Get the perfect take in no time at all—simply switch between different recordings, select the best sections, and edit them together directly under each track in the project.
AudioWarp
- Optimize timing in your audio files in a flash. Advanced time-stretching algorithms ensure excellent sound quality and let you deliver perfect results fast.
Marker Track
- Markers are displayed on multiple lines, allowing you to keep an overview of all essential information. Create markers in different colors, edit them together, or move them.
Improved Export Function
- You can now export your projects in several codecs simultaneously and in several formats, such as surround and stereo. The new, convenient export list even allows you to select multiple projects at once and export them.
Multitrack Export (Stem)
- Export all project tracks as individual audio files, including the audio content of aux and submix buses, without needing to render them separately, ideal for collaborative projects and archiving complex mixes.
Professional Audio Restoration and Enhancement Tools
Repair and Restore
- Manually or fully automatically use AI-powered tools to find and remove errors or unwanted noise, reduce hiss, repair clips, remove clicks, and tame transients. Work quickly and accurately to achieve stunning results you never thought possible.
Professional Audio Restoration and Enhancement Tools
- Whether you’re dealing with subtle background noise, distorted peaks, or dull high frequencies, integrated restoration and mastering tools allow you to refine and polish your audio with precision. Designed for professional use, each module helps eliminate unwanted artifacts and enhance sonic clarity, resulting in clean, transparent, and brilliant sound across all types of productions.
DeHisser
- Removes the uniform, low-level white noise typically produced by microphone preamps or AD converters.
DeClipper
- Eliminates clipping and distorted sounds and is especially useful for piano or vocal recordings. Sections with clipping are recalculated based on the material surrounding them.
DeNoiser
- Uses noise prints to remove distracting background noise with minimal impact on the actual audio signal.
DeClicker/DeCrackler
- Removes crackling and individual clicking noises that are typical of scratched records, while the DeCrackler eliminates the crackling noises that can be heard on old records.
Brilliance Enhancer
- This precise mastering effect for pop or rock songs ensures greater transparency and brilliance in your sound. It compensates for sound loss in the higher frequencies and polishes your audio material to a sheen.
Recording and Mixing
Sequoia offers tools and workflows for mixing each and every kind of production from simple stereo radio commentary to complex music productions or movie scores in different multichannel formats. With automatic sample rate conversion and the option to decode compressed audio files in real time, diverse audio formats can be combined with no issues.
Use External Hardware Effects as Plug-Ins
- Sequoia enables you to make the most of new connectivity for external hardware effects, which can be integrated into your project as effect plug-ins. Not only does this simplify work with effect devices, you can also import as many external effects as you want into your project via the plug-in browser. You’ll experience more creative possibilities and enhanced flexibility for routing, too.
coreFX Suite
- The coreFX Suite is the ultimate effect bundle with all the essential tools you need for professional sound design. It includes a pumping effect for contemporary productions, five plug-ins for precise dynamic control, three modulation effects to create richness and space, and the latest addition—a tool for automating all essential processing tasks within one plug-in. All dynamic plug-ins display the dry and processed waveform in real time.
colorFX Suite
- colorFX Suite delivers a wide sound coloration palette. Tape Machine combines the pulsating dynamics of analog hardware with the precision of virtual sound control. Bitcrusher takes the concept of digital distortion to a new level, delivering more parameters for more excitement. Tube Distortion gives sound a singing quality that ranges from quiet and harmonic to fiery and crashing.
- With signal routing that can be filtered and modulated, colorFX can be used flexibly as subtle emulsifiers for masters and grouped signals, or to create a distinctive texture for individual tracks.
32-Bit Float Recording
- Sequoia delivers ultraclear sound and massive dynamic range for field recordings, interviews, and live broadcasts with native 32-bit float recording and up to 384 kHz sampling rate. Thanks to 32-bit float, setting the gain or adjusting levels is now a thing of the past.
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. Jointly recorded tracks are automatically grouped, giving you an overview of your progress at all times.
Marker Track
- Organize your projects more efficiently. 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. It’s also possible to assign markers to dedicated tracks, such as a video track. Audio and video markers function independently of each other.
Clear MIDI Display
- Keep a clear overview of your MIDI productions at all times. More prominent note blocks and a clearer color design allow for better orientation in your project and help you get to the finish line faster.
Automation Lanes
- Track automation can be displayed across multiple subtracks as lanes. You can display and edit as many track parameters as you like, such as volume, panning, or effect settings, all at the same time. Select particularly detailed or complex curves and copy them simultaneously to any number of automation lanes on other tracks. For example, you can assign identical volume curves to all grouped instruments.