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. That means it includes every last instrument, effect, and feature of the latter program, plus additional Sequoia-only features largely targeted at the mastering and broadcast markets that we'll get into below. To Sequoia's credit, it is a superset of the popular Magix Samplitude Pro X4. Just know that most users don't need to drop this kind of cash on audio editing software-even for professional mastering. But as a do-it-all program that takes you from inspired composition through finished masters that are ready for duplication and distribution, Sequoia and its object-oriented, multi-point editing are unparalleled. Programs like Steinberg WaveLab and Adobe Audition offer a lot of the same tools at much lower prices, and Sequoia itself ($2,975) has competition at the same price level from Pyramix and SADiE (which we have yet to test). Magix Sequoia is a long-running top choice for mastering and broadcast professionals.
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