Cubase 5

The convergence of technology and creativity makes Cubase 5 the most musical digital audio workstation ever developed by Steinberg. Focusing on five key elements of music production comprising sensational new features supplemented by a raft of additional enhancements, Cubase 5 holds a wealth of innovative and enhanced solutions that take your creativity to its limits.

New Features in Cubase 5

Beat Creation and Loop Mangling

Cubase 5 features outstanding new tools for creating beats, generating exciting new rhythms and working with loops.

Vocal Editing and Pitch Correction

Cubase 5 comes with an amazing new toolset for perhaps the most important element in any song: the vocals.

New Dimensions for Your Mix

Cubase 5 has numerous new features that will help you bring new depth to your mix — in more ways than one.

Express Creative Visions

With Cubase 5, Steinberg has innovated even further to offer even more creative compositional tools.

Next-Generation Performance and Faster Workflow

Cubase 5 also includes an array of additional new ways of working faster, with added performance that takes advantage of new technologies.

Cubase 5

Boasting a wealth of new capabilities unmatched in its price range, such as VST Expression and up-to-the-minute VST3 instruments and effects, like the new Groove Agent ONE drum machine and Beat Designer step sequencer as well as the new PitchCorrect intonation effect, Cubase Studio 5 offers unsurpassed performance in its price class.

New Features in Cubase Studio 5

Beat Creation

Cubase Studio 5 features outstanding new tools for creating beats and generating exciting new rhythms.

Pitch Correction

Cubase Studio 5 comes with a new tool for easy and automatic intonation control and scale correction

New Dimensions for Your Mix

Cubase Studio 5 has new features that will help you bring new depth to your mix — in more ways than one.

Express Creative Visions

With Cubase Studio 5, Steinberg has innovated even further to offer even more creative compositional tools.

Next-Generation Performance and Faster Workflow

Cubase Studio 5 also includes an array of additional new ways of working faster, with added performance that takes advantage of new technologies.

Cubase 4 - Advanced Music Production System

Cubase 4 represents the cutting edge in digital audio workstations. Designed for professionals from the ground up, Cubase converges extraordinary sound quality, intuitive handling and a vast range of highly advanced audio and MIDI tools for composition, recording, editing and mixing.

• State-of-the-art audio and MIDI recording, editing and mixing
• Complete new set of VST3 virtual instruments and effects
• Real multi-channel 5.1 surround sound
• VST Sound™, the universal sound manager
• Control Room integration within your outboard studio environment
• Seamless integration of external audio and MIDI hardware
• Pristine 32-bit floating point audio engine
• Professional music notation and score printing
• Advanced Integration of Steinberg and Yamaha hardware
• Cross-platform for Windows and Mac OS X Universal Binary

New Features

Cubase 4 comes with a brand-new VST3 plug-in set and four new integrated software instruments with more than 1,000 sounds. The powerful combination of Track Presets, Instrument Tracks, and the MediaBay database help to organize all your sounds from every instrument — both software VSTi and hardware. The Cubase 4 mixer now offers a flexible Control Room section and up to four independent studio mixes. Composers and musicians benefit from the enhanced score editor while the redesigned user interface with many new features speeds up workflow and boosts creativity to new levels.

New in Cubase 4.1
Cubase 4.1 additionally offers significant features such as Sidechaining for VST3 plug-ins, free routing, a Global Transpose Track, Music XML support and much more.

New in Cubase 4.5
The Cubase 4.5 update introduces several new features including unique support for the Steinberg MR816 CSX and MR816 X Advanced Integration DSP Studio, as well as the CC121 Advanced Integration Controller. The extensive support for the Yamaha MOTIF XS series and the KX USB Music Studio series has also been expanded even further.

Cubase 4.5 also adds more value by including highest quality additional sound content made by Yamaha, and the sound experts from Sonic Reality and Big Fish Audio.

Sequel 2 - Music Creation and Performance

Sequel 2 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 2 is the perfect first step into music production and performance. Sequel 2 runs on both PCs and Mac computers and comes with a massive library of more than 5,000 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. It’s never been more fun to create music on a computer!

Features

• Audio + MIDI Recording and Mixing
• VST3 Plug-In Set (including HALion One and Guitar Amp Simulator)
• Professional Technology (32-bit Audio Engine, 24-bit/96-kHz Recording)
• Powerful Editors for MIDI and Audio Processing
• VST Sound™, the unique sound management system
• AudioWarp realtime time stretching/pitch shifting
• Advanced Integration of Steinberg and Yamaha hardware
• Cross-Platform: Windows and Mac OS X Universal Binary (compatible with PPC- and Intel-based Macintosh computers)

New in Sequel 2

• Plug right into Sequel 2 with almost any hardware controller or keyboard, with easy setup thanks to the new Controller Learn feature
• Live control of your performances using a MIDI keyboard or external hardware controller
• Play melodies and chords without MIDI keyboard using the PC keyboard or mouse
• Find tracks in your projects faster with Track Icons to label your tracks visually
• Track Freeze for more CPU power — more tracks, more Sequel!
• Find your files faster with improved MediaBay handling and overview
• Even more creativity with audio in the new Sample Editor with Free Warp and Audio Reverse
• Set your project tempo by tapping it on a PC or MIDI keyboard
• Low latency on Windows Vista even with no ASIO sound device thanks to Windows Vista Core Audio (Vista only)
• Sequel Content Sets available separately with thousands of additional loops for your favorite music style (optional, exclusively available from our Steinberg Online Shop)

Sequel Content Sets

Sequel Content Sets turn Sequel into a fully fledged music factory for your favorite music style! With hundreds of outstanding audio loops from top producers, each content set offers a stunning array of loops to ignite song ideas and fuel your creative flow. Conveniently organized into easy-to-use construction kits, the Sequel Content Sets are so easy to access that you can get them into your projects straight away. Demo songs are included to show you the full creative potential of each content set. These unique content sets are a must-have for Sequel or Cubase owners into any of these specific genres!

• Hundreds of top-quality audio loops
• Easy-to-use categorized construction kits 
• Easy to get by download only (approx. 400 MB)
• Compatible to Sequel 2 and Cubase/Cubase Studio/Cubase Essential 4.5 or higher
• Windows and Mac installer available

V-STACK - virtual VST-Rack

V-STACK is a VST instrument rack that can power up to 16 VST instruments, ideal either for live use on stage or extending your existing VST System Link network — without requiring an additional sequencer program. V-STACK cheaply and conveniently extends the power of Cubase and Nuendo systems by integrating the CPU power of another computer that processes VST additional instruments. As a standalone application, V-STACK is the ideal performance rack for VSTi's, providing a CPU efficient platform for integrating the power of VST instruments on stage.

Feature Highlights:

• Lightning quick access to master keyboard functions like Transpose, Layer and Splitting of VSTi’s
• Up to 5 insert effects, up to 8 send effects per audio channel and up to 4 EQ bands per channel and up to 4 subgroups
• Remote control: use your remote controller with V-STACK
• Ideal for VST System Link users! All Cubase and Nuendo systems can be extended by adding more computer processing power – using V-STACK, CPU intensive VST instruments can be triggered and played in V-STACK from another computer with sample accuracy
• ReWire 2 support: audio channels can be sent from a ReWire-compatible application to V-STACK for effects and EQ processing

VST Sound Instrument Set Synthesizers

The VST Sound Instrument Set Synthesizers for HALion ONE presents massive content in the styles of the ’80s, electro and ambient together with the latest trance, techno and minimal electro sounds, letting you produce studio-quality projects quicker than ever before.

Feature Highlights:

• With over 140 VST3 sound presets of the most popular synths alongside more than 350 MIDI loops all arranged in categorized construction kits for easy access, VST Sound Instrument Sets provide the ultimate library for all you Cubase, Sequel 2 and Nuendo 4.2 with NEK users.
  
• More than 140 high-quality VST3 sound presets
  
• Over 350 awesome MIDI loops
  
• Arranged in easy-to-use categorized construction kits
  
• Exclusively available as easy download (less than 400 MB)
  
• Compatible with Cubase 5, Cubase Studio 5, Cubase Essential 5, Cubase 4.5, Cubase Studio 4.5,
• Sequel 2 and Nuendo 4.2 with NEK
  
• Windows and Mac installer included