The Grand 3 - The Ultimate Virtual Piano Suite

• Back with a Masterpiece
  The Grand 3 boasts completely different piano models to its two predecessors, merely building on the prestige that its name has managed to attain over the past years. This means that versions 2 and 3, both old and new, equally deserve to be held in high esteem for their respective quality piano models. But always keep in mind: for The Grand 3, Steinberg has not only come up with several different piano models but uses intelligent sample architecture and latest recording technology to achieve an even more authentic sonic image and realistic feel.
• Three grand masters
  The Grand 3 prides itself on three outstanding virtual grand pianos with a rich and realistic sound based on the most widely acclaimed grand pianos. The Yamaha C7 grand piano is the artist’s choice — its sound providing a true concert grand experience, while the expressive tone of the Bösendorfer 290 Imperial provides an extended musical range not found in other pianos. What’s more: the incredible sound, responsiveness and superb playing behavior of the Steinway D have also been added to perfectly complement the collection of virtual pianos featured in The Grand 3.

  

• More pianos, more choices
  The classic Yamaha CP80 Electric Grand has a timbral character that makes it genuinely recognizable. The Nordiska Pianofabriken upright piano has been recorded and designed for the not so grandeur of musical genres — its sound is ideal for pop and jazz music.

  

• Superb reverberation
  The Grand 3 comes with a convolution reverb based on the same technology used by REVerence, the world’s first VST3-based convolution reverb processor already featured in Cubase 5 which benefits from every single aspect the VST3 standard has to offer. It boasts sumptuously realistic natural space simulation, emulating any acoustic environment — from the smallest live music venue to the most impressive cathedrals. This reverb includes a vast number of impulse responses that put the characteristic sound of some of the world’s most distinctive settings immediately in one’s hands — both in stereo and surround.

  

• Flexible equalization
  This powerful and versatile equalizer offers full four-band parametric control that works as a sum over all output channels with variable response curves and shelving modes, as well as analog-style peak filters.
• All tuned up
  The enhanced tuning editor provides customizable scales and a wealth of presets for tempered and concert tuning. Each tuning situation may be stored and retrieved as preset whenever required.
• The Grand 3 standalone
  The standalone version allows The Grand 3 to be used without a host application — a great choice for performing live and delivering the best sounding, most playable virtual piano software ever experienced!
• The Grand 3 standalone version comes with two additional features:
  • For the record: The quick-idea scratch pad in The Grand 3 standalone version guarantees that all flashes of inspiration are recorded. Simply hit the button and The Grand 3 records everything played — now there’s no excuse for missing that one tune! With the scratch pad allows the recorded sequence to be played back for rehearsal purposes or exported as a standard MIDI file. It is also possible to load MIDI files and play them back as well.
  • Never miss a beat: The metronome integrated into The Grand 3 standalone version is a useful tool, helping musicians keep a constant tempo while practicing the most difficult of piano pieces.

  

Groove Agent 3 - Your unbeatable virtual drummer

Groove Agent 3 is the third incarnation of Steinberg’s phenomenally successful Groove Agent virtual drummer VST instrument, and is a major step up from previous versions. Groove Agent 3 combines a huge library of drum and percussion sounds with a range of player technologies to give you dynamic, ready-to-go drums, beats, rhythms and percussion in only a few mouse clicks. Top-quality drum samples and live recorded drum performances in a massive number of variations cover 123 different styles from over 50 years of music history, automatically synced to the song tempo. And Groove Agent 3 also features more kits and sounds, including 3 new top-rate acoustic drum kits, as well as the ability to import user samples in wav and AIFF format for even more flexibility.

Groove Agent 3 adds two new agents to the Classic Agent seen in previous versions: Special Agent and Percussion Agent. While the top-notch Special Agent adds an astoundingly realistic studio drummer complete with new acoustic drum kits to Groove Agent 3’s arsenal, the Percussion Agent is specialized in red-hot percussive grooves and beats. The new Dual Mode puts any two of the three agents together in the recording studio for scorching virtual drum and percussion sessions – all within one single VST instrument. And while Groove Agent 3 breathes new life into any production with its inspiring and inventive drum performances, it’s also an ideal sparring partner for practice or jam sessions.

• Add inspiring live drum patterns and percussion performances in real-time to your song and quickly record the result.
• Covers almost any style: 123 styles total - 108 Groove Agent and 15 Special Agent drum styles plus hundreds of percussion performances played by professional studio drummers - automatically synced up to song tempo.
• Variations with 25 complexity levels in each style, including fills, intros, endings and half tempo feel variations.
• Huge audio library: 10 richly detailed acoustic kits and 9 drum machines plus a vast array of acoustic and electric percussion sounds in outstanding quality.
• Classic Groove Agent module offers fully editable drum styles with corresponding kits and FX.
• NEW - Special Agent module features 15 complete live drumming styles, each containing 75 different performances.
• NEW - Percussion Agent module with 8 groups of red-hot recorded percussion grooves with hundreds of percussion performances.
• NEW – Dual Mode combines the breathtaking creative power of two Agents playing side by side within the same VSTi.
• NEW – flexible User Import Sample feature (wav/AIFF) - Create your own kits.
• NEW - Realistic rolls and paradiddles thanks to Alternating hits for each drum on every note. This means no more machine gun effect.
• NEW - Auto Fill functionality and useful Speed control for jamming and practicing.
• RealAmbience technology offers true recorded ambience for drum kits to perfectly blend into any mix.
• NEW - 9-band EQ and compressor for each of the 12 stereo outputs, useful Presets included.
• Record Groove Agent beats to a MIDI track with Cubase and Nuendo or export Groove combinations to a MIDI file for further editing in any host.
• Supports all major formats: VST, DXi, AU + Rewire for easy Pro Tools® integration.
• Standalone version with multiple-output support included.

HALion 3 - The VST Sampler

Since the debut of HALion in 2001, Steinberg’s software sampler has repeatedly raised the bar for other virtual samplers. With HALion 3, you can load almost every sound library available on the market and use numerous tools to shape and even radically reinvent sounds. A clearly-arranged user interface, excellent performance, flexible routing options and the awesome sound quality of the sample engine and filters – all this makes HALion 3 a top-flight software sampler and a welcome addition to every music production toolbox.

• 256 voices, 16-way multi-timbral, 128 programs per instance
• Supports nearly all common sampler formats, audio file formats as well as ISO, Nero and Toast Disc Images
• Resource-sparing operation courtesy of innovative RAMSave technology
• 5.1 Surround-enabled Sample Engine, supports audio files up to 384 kHz
• Up to 256 freely configurable outputs per instance
• High-quality Waldorf filters
• Extensive effect section
• Integrated browser with useful tools for searching, organizing, categorizing and archiving your samples
• Fantastic options for shaping sounds (Loop editor, synchronizable envelopes and LFOs, STEP envelopes, etc.)
• HALion 3 sound library containing more than 160 high-quality instruments

New Features

With more than 50 new features, HALion 3 offers unprecedented depth and breadth of access, enabling you to work more productively and efficiently than ever before. Figuring prominently among its many innovations are an intuitive new system for sound categorization as well as impressive new insert and send effects.

HALion Player - Advanced Sample Library Player

If you are looking for a stable, easily handled and affordable sample playback module for VST, DXi, AU or Rewire environments, look no further - HALion Player is your first choice. With its compelling combination of the most advanced HALion 3 technology and streamlined interfaces that have been condensed down to the essentials, HALion Player is tailored to the needs of newcomers to the software sampling game. HALion Player affords you reasonably priced access to hundreds of professional HALion libraries - without having to lower your standards for sound quality.

• HALion 3 technology at a sensationally affordable price
• Simple handling courtesy of a streamlined, self-explanatory user interface
• HALion 3 Sound Library with a huge selection of instruments and drum sounds in pro quality
• Plays all native HALion 3.1 formats (HSB, fxp + fxb)
• Import and keyboard mapping of Wav / Aif / Rex / Rex2 / Zgr / LM4 files
• 256 voices with up to 256 audio outputs and 16 sounds on 16 MIDI channels per instance
• Q controls for manipulating vital sound parameters (including MIDI Learn)
• Uniform sound category system for searching, selecting and loading sounds
• Integrates into all standard host applications (VST, DXi, AU, Rewire) and runs in standalone mode
• Cross-platform (PC/Mac)

HALion Player contains the entire HALion 3 Sound Library with a vast selection instruments and drum sounds in pro quality. What’s more, it is powered by the award-winning, surround-enabled HALion 3 Playback Engine. Premium features from HALion 3, fabulous Waldorf filters and efficient disk streaming – with all these ace appointments, exceptional sound quality and best performance are assured.

System Requirements

Mac

• Mac OS X version 10.4
• Power Mac G5 2 GHz minimum / Intel core Solo 1.5 GHz
• 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended)
• 4 GB free HD space for installation
• DVD drive required for installation
• CoreAudio compatible audio hardware
• Steinberg Key and USB port required
• Internet connection required for license activation
• For using as plug-in or Rewire slave device, a VST2, AU (tested in Logic 7.2 and Digital Performer 4.6 only) or Rewire compatible host is required.

PC

• Windows XP or Windows Vista (32-bit only)
• Intel/AMD processor 800 MHz minimum
• 256 MB RAM
• 80 MB of free disk space
• Windows MME compatible audio hardware is required (ASIO compatible audio hardware recommended)
• Internet connection required for license activation

HALion Symphonic Orchestra - Acoustic Orchestral Instruments

HALion Symphonic Orchestra puts the awesome emotive power and sheer sonic majesty of a full symphonic orchestra under your total control. Evocative scores, exquisite arrangements, emotive accompaniments: HSO is the ideal, cost effective symphonic instrument for composition, production and pre-production in music, TV and film scoring and game sound.

The luxuriously extensive content provided on three double layer DVDs spans over 1200 instruments recorded in the very highest fidelity using top-of-the-range equipment. Capturing every nuance and detail of a full palette and dynamic range of strings, brass, woodwind and percussion instruments, the massive 27GB library includes an almost inexhaustible range of articulations and expressive playing techniques. And because the vast HSO library is uniquely versatile, HALion Symphonic Orchestra sounds just as great in an RnB production as in a baroque chamber piece.

Feature Highlights

• Complete symphonic orchestra with breathtakingly authentic strings, brass, woodwind and percussion
• 1250 instrument patches and combis in 27GB of samples
• Extraordinarily expressive with full dynamic range covering all common articulations of each instrument
• Unique Crescendo Controller feature allows seamlessly real-time blending between samples with different dynamic characteristics
• Articulation key-switch instruments for creative, intuitive and dynamic playing
• Richly detailed and perfectly balanced sound with adjustable real recorded ambience
• Extremely versatile for all styles from baroque to RnB and everything in between
• Outstanding playability and instant access to all the most important parameters
• Efficient use of system resources with state of the art HALion sampling technology
• Cross platform (Mac/PC)
• Supports VST, AU, DXi, ReWire as well as stand alone mode

Steinberg Key - Access to Steinberg's professional audio software

The Steinberg Key is a copy protection unit (sometimes called "dongle") which is needed to use Steinberg's software range. With the host applications Cubase 4, Nuendo 4 and WaveLab 6, the Steinberg Key is already included in the product package. The Steinberg Key is also required to run Steinberg VST instruments, but is not included in the product boxes and must be purchased separately if no Steinberg Key is already present on the system.

The Steinberg Key comes with a CD-ROM containing informative videos and detailed PDF documents about the entire Steinberg product range.

• One copy protection device for all Steinberg licenses
• Detailed information to the complete Steinberg product range

The Steinberg Key is not included with the following products:

• HALion 3
• HALion Player
• HALion Symphonic Orchestra
• Groove Agent 3

The Steinberg Key is included with the following products*:

• Cubase 5
• Cubase Studio 5
• Cubase Essential 4
• Nuendo 4
• WaveLab 6
• WaveLab Studio 6

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