A condensed, yet feature-packed version of Steinberg's latest enhancement of its popular DAW.

Steinberg Cubase 5 provides exceptional DAW tools for artists working in any musical genre. Groove Agent ONE and Beat Designer change the game for beat creation, while the revolutionary LoopMash seamlessly blends loops, creating unimaginable variations. VST Expression tools for composers combine with the first VST3 convolution reverb and improved automation for more dynamic mixes. An array of additional enhancements and 64-bit technologies boost performance—all designed to inspire further musical creativity and productivity.

Some of the highlights of Cubase 5
•Loop Mash is a revolutionary virtual instrument offering a fresh and innovative way of playing with loops and creating dozens of seamlessly blendable variations to get that original beat going.
•Drum sampling deluxe: Groove Agent ONE pairs powerful drum sampling with detailed sound shaping—all seamlessly integrated into Cubase. Not only does it boast import of sliced loop and MPC files, but also rocks right out of the box with its own custom library of acoustic, urban, and Hip-Hop drum kits.
•Beat it: Beat Designer is a hot new beat construction plug-in that allows you to get hands-on with beats for step programming and designing drum patterns in an easy yet powerful way, working hand in hand with Groove Agent ONE.
•On-the-fly pitch correction: The new Pitch Correct VST3 plug-in brings easy and automatic intonation control and scale correction of vocal and monophonic instrument recordings to Cubase.
•New automation handling: More transparency and flexibility in automation, with a new, large control panel for lightning-fast access, Suspend Read/Write, new commands, and more.
•Rule-based consolidation: Cubase 5 interfaces CC data with the Cubase automation, bridging the gap between part-based MIDI controller and track-based automation data routed to the same target. Now it's easy to use both systems side by side and handle layered controller/automation data in a consistent way.

Creative Composing and Sequencing
Cubase 5 provides you all the tools you need to record and edit with peerless precision and speed.

Intuitive music notation and professional MIDI sequencing has never been easier
Cubase 5 includes the most intuitive MIDI sequencer available. Based on 25 years of experience in developing easy-to-use editing and powerful composing features, Cubase once again sets a milestone with version 5. Cubase offers perhaps the most functionally complete MIDI composing and sequencing toolset on the planet. The strengths of the Cubase MIDI environment lie not only in the sheer depth of its capabilities, because it has been designed from the ground up to be accessible, easy to work with and effortlessly intuitive.

Key Editor
The Key Editor is a breathtakingly powerful yet transparent where melodies, chords, arrangements and performances take shape, and where ideas are sketched out, developed and taken to their full potential. Entering, cutting, moving and transposing individual notes or whole chords, editing any of the hundreds of MIDI parameters available or reworking even the most subtle nuances of a MIDI performance are just some of the tasks for which the Key Editor has been developed and refined continuously by Steinberg for over two decades. With the In-place Editing function, you can also process MIDI parts directly in the Project window in context with other tracks.

Score Editor
The Score Editor is a full notation environment completely integrated within Cubase and lets you view your music in the form of scores, with full support for just about all symbol, display and editing options that this entails. With support for lyrics and remarks as well as drum notes, guitar tablature and lead sheets, the Cubase Score Editor includes hundreds of professional notation symbols: simply select the tools needed to create fully professional score layouts for others including soloists, orchestras and choirs.

Thanks to the full Music XML Import / Export support, even exchanging scores with other notation packages is only a matter of seconds. Adding to the stunning MIDI Meaning feature, the new VST Expression s capability has been engineered to offer a new level of speed and intuitiveness when working with large sample libraries by introducing dynamic support for articulations and expressive notation that is automatically interpreted by a VST instrument. Cubase 5 features an unparalleled combination of a fully featured composition, recording and mixing environment with comprehensive scoring features — ideal for composers.

Drum Editor
The Drum Editor is a highly intuitive yet powerful window for constructing and reworking beats, rhythms and grooves as well as creating individual drum maps for every employed instrument, offering a plethora of features to let you come up with the perfect rhythm for your song or production.

List Editor
The List Editor is a powerful MIDI editing tool that gives fast access to every single aspect of a MIDI note and can be a huge timesaver in complex projects.

MIDI plug-ins
To inspire you even further, Cubase includes a huge set of MIDI plug-ins that take your composition to the next level, with their vast array of additional tools to manipulate MIDI information in your project. The MIDI plug-ins include creative tools such as the new drum step sequencer Beat Designer, a powerful Arpeggiator, a MIDI pattern sequencer and a MIDI chord processor, as well as functional plug-ins such as a MIDI compressor for equalizing velocity variance and a Context Gate for selective MIDI data triggering/filtering. If you re already a Cubase owner, you ll be excited to find that all MIDI plug-ins in Cubase 5 have a redesigned user interface. Additionally, several plug-ins offer minor enhancements over previous versions in Cubase 4, such as Chorder with its Learn function.

VST Expression
With Cubase 5, Steinberg has innovated even further to offer even more creative compositional tools. The new VST Expression feature revolutionizes working with instrument articulations. VST Expression allows seamless, transparent and most importantly integrated editing of articulations, with full control over multiple articulations in the Key and Score Editors. Articulations noted in the Score Editor can be played back immediately by sample-based orchestra libraries—in real time.

Virtual Keyboard
The new virtual MIDI keyboard allows you to play and record notes by using the computer mouse or the keyboard—ideal for composing when on the go.

MIDI Monitor
The new MIDI Monitor plug-in can analyze incoming and played-back MIDI events from the host in real time for full transparency of MIDI information being recorded. Event type filters ease displaying and finding MIDI data, which can be exported to a file.

Peerless Recording and Editing
The fifth generation of powerful tools for recording and editing: Cubase 5
Steinberg s wealth of engineering experience in digital audio stretching back over two decades provides the basis for a new generation of capabilities for recording and editing in Cubase 5. With its emphasis not only on technology and precision but also on user friendliness, usability and ergonomics, Cubase 5 provides you all the tools you need to record and edit with peerless precision and speed. At the same time, Cubase 5 is even more easy to use than ever before.

Next-generation audio engine
The award-winning Cubase audio engine delivers a crystal-clear 32-bit floating-point resolution and 96 kHz sample rate, with a pristine sound quality that is the hallmark of the Cubase 5 music production experience. The next-generation audio engine includes true surround capability throughout, with each track and channel offering up to six discreet channels. Steinberg s VST3 standard is also supported by Cubase 5, with many additional features including dynamic I/O assignment for plug-ins that automatically adapts to the track or mixer channel the plug-in is inserted on. Cubase 5 also offers many recording features such as Retrospective Record, which means that no take ever gets lost because record mode wasn t engaged in time.

Convenient recording
Cubase 5 also offers convenient recording capabilities with exemplary FX handling: any VST plug-in can be recorded with the signal, or simply used for monitoring while the untouched, pristine signal is recorded in Cubase. The intuitive user interface supports even the largest recording rigs, with easy-to-use folders, customizable track views and custom color schemes for tracks that differentiate track types at a glance. Handling inputs and outputs in Cubase is effortless: the VST Connections window allows you to not only set up custom I/O setups and customize port names but also switch between different I/O setups on the fly.

A huge range of additional functions engineered to accelerate recording workflows are also included in the latest version of Cubase. When preparing to record large sessions with high track counts, the new Arm/Disarm All Audio Tracks function speeds up handling of large recording setups. To prevent accidentally disabling the record button when recording, the new Lock Record function can be set using a key command. And the new Remaining Record Time display keeps you up to date on how much recording space you ve got left on your system, letting you keep a watchful eye over valuable hard drive space and helping you plan your recording session accordingly.

Sample Editor
The Cubase Sample Editor allows you almost limitless creative freedom while editing audio. A full editing toolset offers a huge range of functions that not only cover common editing tasks right down to the sample level. The Cubase 5 loop functions are a boon for anyone using loops in their project, including fully automatic Hitpoint recognition and the extensive yet intuitive Audio Warp tools.

Whether you want to adapt drum loops to the song tempo, or transpose and time-stretch instruments, apply any of the myriad audio processes or the included next-generation VST3 plug-ins. Editing audio material is a non-destructive operation—all edits are stored in the Task List and can be undone at any time. In addition, an offline process history lets you remove, replace and edit every effect added to an audio file in the course of processing. Cubase 5 is the complete production environment for fast, intuitive and qualitatively outstanding audio tools that allow you to manipulate audio in almost any way imaginable.

Pure Mixing
Cubase 5 provides a complete mixing environment that not only equips you to produce stunning mixes in stereo or surround, but allows you to tailor your mixing workflow to suit your own personal artistic and creative vision.

Polish your mix with the advanced mixing engine
The 32-bit floating-point mixing engine in Cubase 5 has been engineered to deliver so much more than just a sumptuous smoothness and depth to your mixes. For a smooth yet powerful mixing workflow that supports your creative artistry, you also need high levels of configurability and flexibility to adapt all those powerful tools to your individual workflow.

Freely configurable
Three freely configurable mixer views allowing you to show specific combinations of channels, channel types and zoom—guaranteeing full control over your session. The unique Track Presets system lets you store, recall and archive your track settings for just about any audio track or VST instrument for almost instant recall through the MediaBay.

Fully equipped professional mixer
And with 256 physical inputs and outputs, 8 inserts per Channel, 64 FX sends as well as 256 groups/busses and unlimited routing between audio channels, busses, groups and FX returns mean that Cubase 5 is fully equipped for even the most complex recording setup. And even in the largest projects, the system-wide automatic latency compensation synchronizes all audio streams in your system automatically.

Full automation
The new automation handling in Cubase 5 provides a dedicated automation panel for quick access to all automation functions. The enhanced transparency and flexibility provides professionals with the capability to set up a complete automation within minutes and control the session clearly.

Free routing
Cubase 5 gives you complete freedom when routing audio in your project. The routing capabilities allow totally unlimited routing between group channels regardless of their order, and supports sending from groups to FX returns as well as from FX returns into group channels. For even more flexibility, audio tracks cannot only send signals into groups and FX returns with help of the pre fader sends, but also patch signals post fader from the output tab to group channels and FX returns.

Sidechain input for VST3 plug-ins
Sidechain inputs are available on most VST3 plug-ins included with Cubase 5. Thanks to the free routing architecture virtually any signal in the VST mixer can be used as a Sidechain input signal. Sidechain is a crucial function for audio-controlled effects such as ducking (compression controlled by an audio source). Sidechain control functions are pre-defined for each supported plug-in: Sidechain signals on dynamics plug-ins like compressors control the signal gain, modulation effects have LFO control. The amount of the effect can be precisely controlled.

High-end EQ
By using the renowned Cubase Channel Studio EQ, you re able to create high-quality mixes right out of the box, including multiple filter modes and characteristics.

Export almost any audio file type
And once your mix is ready, you re able to export in almost all standard formats for instance, AIFF, Sound Designer II, Wave, Wave 64, Broadcast Wave, MP3 and MP3 surround and Windows Media Audio Pro.

Surround mixing
Mixing for surround or thinking of moving to surround? The fully surround-capable architecture developed for Cubase puts all these capabilities at your command in the context of a surround mix. All Cubase 5 VST3 plug-ins are fully surround-ready, intelligently adapting their I/O configuration as required for mono, stereo or surround. With its complete multi-channel audio signal path from input to output and the ability to export to the MP3 surround format for convenient delivery and distribution Cubase offers a consistent end-to-end surround workflow.

Outstanding Effects
Cubase 5 comes with an impressive arsenal of high-quality VST effect processors, including EQ, Dynamics, Modulation, Reverb, Filters, Distortion, and special effects.

Innovative instruments that put creativity first
Cubase 5 Studio delivers rich virtual instruments—right out of the box: Groove Agent ONE, HALion ONE, and Prologue. Each of them comes ready to play with hundreds of fantastic preset sounds.

HALion ONE
HALion ONE is a special player version of HALion, the VST sampler, and comes with hundreds of ready-to-use instruments that can be shaped to user s taste with the eight intuitive QuickControls. Delivered with sample-content taken from Yamaha s award-winning Motif synthesizer workstation, HALion ONE comes ready to play with more than 600 great-sounding sample-based instruments and 58 drum kits. The sound library also includes a complete General-MIDI Sound-Set. Standard MIDI Files can be imported and played directly using HALion ONE s GM Sound-Set by simply dragging a MIDI file into Cubase.

Groove Agent ONE
Groove Agent ONE pairs powerful drum-sampling with detailed sound shaping - seamlessly integrated into Cubase. Not only does it boast sliced loop and MPC-import but rocks right out of the box with its own custom library of only the finest acoustic, urban, hip hop and dance drum kits! Each of its virtual pads features a complete sound processing section that gives full control of textures, timbres and expressive qualities of each drum sound. Creation of custom kits with drag and drop from the MediaBay allows an extremely fluid and easy workflow. Support for WAV, AIFF and the legendary MPC format means that creating your own kits and using custom MPC kits are only a few clicks away. And because the interface and workflow have been optimized to provide fast access and easy import and kit creation features, Groove Agent ONE is the perfect fusion of functionality and simplicity.

Prologue
Prologue is a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer with great-sounding multi-mode variable resonance filters, powerful modulation capabilities and cranking onboard effects. Powered by VirSyn technology, this punchy virtual analog synthesizer is fed by hundreds of great-sounding presets covering a wide range of sounds reaching from traditional analog to indescribable. Prologue s intuitive user interface provides full editing capabilities with access to its three oscillators, powerful multi-mode filter, four envelopes, two LFOs, a powerful modulation matrix, and on-board effects.

HALion ONE Expression Set 01
The HALion ONE sound library has been expanded with a new set of studio-quality instruments developed by Yamaha's acclaimed sound design team. The Expression Set 01 features 14 new instruments with multiple articulations for natural and expressive performances. With each articulation assigned to a key switch, the new Expression Set is perfectly suited to explore the new VST Expression feature in Cubase 5. The following instruments are included: Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass, Fretless Bass, Pick Bass, Nylon Guitar, Steel Guitar, Clean Guitar, Distortion Guitars 1&2, Solid Guitar, Tenor Sax, Solo Trumpet, Brass Section, and Large String section.

VST Sound Collection Vol. I
The included VST Sound Collection Vol. I offers over 1.6 GB of new content, sounds and loops produced by top producers, including Yamaha, Sonic Reality and Big Fish Audio which can be used royalty free by all Cubase 5 and Cubase Studio 5 customers.

•45 new instruments for HALion ONE by Sonic Reality: Provided by the content experts at Sonic Reality, this new HALion ONE sound library adds premium instruments for your inspiration: beautiful guitars, smooth basses and a whole load of great-sounding electronic and acoustic drum kits. The sumptuous quality of these versatile new instruments will add exciting new flavors to any Cubase project or song.

•Original Yamaha S90ES Grand for HALion ONE: The famous Yamaha S90ES Grand is one of the most sought-after sampled stage piano sounds around. Using the original samples, captured with care and outstanding precision by the Yamaha Content experts, the S90ES Grand for HALion ONE delivers a truly beautiful expressive timbre, suitable for all styles of piano playing.

•Additional 250 fresh drum loops by Big Fish Audio: Red-hot drum beats and scorching loops all of them ready to use and optimized for variety and creative usage with the excellent beat mangling and manipulation tools in Cubase. And because they re all ready for the Cubase MediaBay, finding the right loop for a song takes only a few seconds.

Hardware Solutions for Cubase
MR816 CSX, MR816 X Advanced Integration DSP Studio and the CC121 Advanced Integration Controller combined with Cubase 5 provide an all-round system solution of unparalleled flexibility and power.

A system so much more than the sum of it parts
Designed especially for Cubase by Steinberg and Yamaha, and precision-manufactured by Yamaha to the most exacting standards, the MR816 CSX, MR816 X Advanced Integration DSP Studio and the CC121 Advanced Integration Controller combined with Cubase 5 provide an all-round system solution of unparalleled flexibility and power.

MR816 CSX and MR816 X Advanced Integration DSP Studio
With the MR816 CSX/X FireWire interfaces and Cubase Studio 5 you will experience a new level of integration that is in terms of ease-of-use way ahead of the competition and demonstrates how the control of hardware can be seamlessly integrated into a DAW thanks to:

•True Integrated Monitoring, multiple studio mixes •Complete Cubase user interface integration throughout
•DSP Power for Cubase
•Quick Connect and Integration


About Cubase
Cubase is a household name in many parts of the world—a byword for musical creativity using a computer. First released in 1989, Cubase is one of the most successful music production systems, having been purchased by countless numbers of musicians, producers, and composers all over the globe. The Cubase philosophy puts the latest computer and audio technologies at the disposal of artists in a way that opens up new possibilities, allowing you to venture into new artistic territory and give your creativity free reign. Cubase supports you through every stage of music production, from the inception of the first fleeting idea, through its development, and right into the final version, regardless of the task at hand. Because it has been built to support individual creativity, Cubase owners are among the most successful artists in just about every musical genre or activity conceivable, including engineers recording and mixing rock albums, dance DJs, hip hop producers, songwriters creating pop hits, film composers scoring for Hollywood blockbusters, and everything in between.

Steinberg Cubase Studio 5 DAW Software Features:

• Award-winning 32-bit floating-point audio engine
• Virtually unlimited number of audio tracks
• Unlimited number of MIDI tracks
• Unlimited number of instrument tracks
• Physical Inputs/Outputs: 128
• Group channels: 256
• FX Send channels: 8
• FX Return Channels: 64
• VST audio effect insert slots: 8
• MIDI effect insert slots: 4
• VST Instrument Slots: 32
• VST3 plug-in support
• ReWire support
• Number of mixer views: 2
• Extended Mixer view
• Sidechain inputs
• Automation modes: touch fader
• Volume envelopes
• Automation panel
• Hardware controller support
• Channel Batch Export function
• Unlimited Undo and Redo functions
• Offline Process History for built-in audio
• Limited MediaBay and VSTSound support
• Track presets
• Studio connections: Recall
• Workspaces (virtual desktops)
• Project Browser
• Recording modes: Mix, Overwrite, Normal, Merge, Stacked
• Recording from busses
• Editors: Key, List, Basic Score
• Drum Editor
• Logical Editor
• Inplace Editor (MIDI Editing in Project Window)
• Extended Track Inspector (shows VSTi channel for MIDI Tracks
• Professional score layout and printing functions (incl. MusicXML
• Import + Export)
• Arranger Track for pattern style arranging including new live performance options
• Global Transpose track
• Tempo and Signature Track in Project Window
• VST Expression support
• Audio Warp (Realtime time stretching + pitch shifting)
• Time Warp tool
• Pitch Shifting/Time Stretching algorithm: MPEX4 + Realtime
• Dithering: Apogee UV22HR
• Key Command macros
• Pool import/export
• Extended Freeze for VST instruments and audio tracks
• Track Quick controls
• Full MP3 Fraunhofer Encoding: available as update
• Windows Media WMA Pro Encoding
• Sequel project import
• Number of VST MIDI effects plug-ins included: 18
• Number of VST audio effects plug-ins included: 39
• Number of VST instruments included: 3
• Number of instrument sounds included: 700+
• Mac OS X Universal Binary
• Multi-processing support
• Windows Vista 64 native Cubase 64-bit version
  
  Audio Plug-Ins
• AmpSimulator
• AutoPan
• Bitcrusher
• Chopper
• Chorus
• Compressor
• DaTube
• Distortion
• DualFilter
• Flanger
• Gate
• Grungelizer
• Limiter
• Maximizer
• Metalizer
• MIDI Gate
• MonoDelay
• MonoToStereo
• Octaver
• Phaser
• PingPongDelay
• PitchCorrect
• RingModulator
• Roomworks
• Roomworks SE
• Rotary
• Standard Channel EQ
• StepFilter
• StereoDelay
• StereoEnhancer
• StudioChorus
• Tranceformer
• Tremolo
• Tuner
• UV22HR
• Vibrato
• VSTDynamics
• WahWah
  
  MIDI plug-ins
• Arpache 5
• Arpache SX
• Auto LFO
• Beat Designer
• Chorder
• Compressor
• Context Gate
• Density
• Micro Tuner
• MIDI Control
• MIDI Echo
• MIDI Modifiers
• MIDI Monitor
• Note 2 CC
• Quantizer
• StepDesigner
• Track Control
• Transformer
  
  Virtual Instruments
• Groove Agent ONE
• Prologue
• HALion ONE
  
  Included: Cubase 5 installation DVD (PC/OSX hybrid)
• VST Sound Collection Vol.1 DVD (PC/OSX hybrid)
• HALion Symphonic Orchestra 16-bit Edition Trial DVD-1 + 2
• Printed "Getting Started" and "Operations Manual"
• Steinberg Copy Protection Key with pre-installed 25-hours license
• License code for Steinberg Key on printed card, License Disclaimer (printed)

Catch up with the latest in Cubase innovation and make some great music in the process. Order today.

Steinberg Cubase Studio 5 DAW Software Specifications:

• Minimum System Requirements
• Macintosh Windows
• Minimum required: Mac OSX 10.5.5
• PowerPC G5 (Intel Core Duo CPU
• recommended)
• 1024 MB RAM
• Display resolution of 1280 x 800 recommended
• CoreAudio compatible audio hardware
• DVD-ROM drive with dual-layer support
• 4GB of free HD space
• USB component port for Seinberg Key (copy protection)
• Internet Connection required for license activation
  
  Windows
• Windows XP (SP2) or Windows Vista (The included Cubase 5 64-bit version natively supports Vista 64)
• CPU 2 GHz (Dual Core CPU recommended)
• 1024 MB RAM
• Display resolution of 1280x800 recommended
• Windows DirectX compatible audio hardware;
• (ASIO compatible audio hardware recommended for low latency performance).
• DVD-ROM drive with dual-layer support
• USB component port for Seinberg Key (copy
• protection)
• Internet Connection required for license activation

Steinberg Cubase Studio 5 DAW Software