Cubase 5 Digital Audio Workstation Software

Steinberg Cubase 5 Digital Audio Workstation Software


Steinberg Cubase 5 adds even more creative possibilities and new technologies to the world's premier music production software. VariAudio and Pitch Correct provide integrated intonation editing for monophonic vocal recordings. 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. •Total vocal editing: VariAudio offers completely integrated pitch and note length editing for individual notes in monophonic vocal recordings—bridging the gap between traditional MIDI and audio editing. •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. •Experience in space: REVerence is a new VST 3 convolution reverb processor, capable of emulating speakers, analog gear, and any natural room or hall imaginable—in stereo or surround with over 70 responses included. Steinberg's VST 3 standard has to offer benefits from every single aspect. •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 analyse 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, ready for 5.1 surround. 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, transpose and time-stretch instruments or analyze and directly edit notes of monophonic vocal recordings with the new VariAudio technology, 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.

Control Room
But that s not all: The Cubase 5 Control Room is a uniquely powerful recording and monitoring environment with custom busses and setups for up to four studio sends for performers, full talkback and metronome integration, custom monitor setups and much more.

Engineered exclusively for Steinberg s audio production systems and unavailable on any other software workstations, the Control Room section is a unique recording and monitoring environment seamlessly integrating performer mixes and monitoring setups into your recording and mixing workflow. Control and switch between several different speaker setups in different configurations on the fly, create and manage up to four unique studio mixes feeding performers their own tailored mix, use the integrated Talkback function, manage audio sources feeding from tape, CD or DVD all from one easy-to-use panel. And in conjunction with Steinberg s MR816 CSX/X Advanced Integration DSP Studio FireWire interfaces, the Control Room offers latency-free recording completely integrated into the Cubase mixer and Control Room panels, with no need to use an additional mixing application.

Dispensing with the need for hardware mixing consoles, the Cubase 5 Control Room represents the final paradigm shift for software in integrating real-world studio setups and firmly puts Cubase 5 at the heart of any recording environment.

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 most advanced mixing engine available
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 mixe
r 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 and pro reverb
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. But the Cubase Channel EQ is not the only plug-in that means you ll be reaching for expensive additional plug-ins and hardware less often: the exceptional new REVerence convolution reverb in Cubase 5 sets new quality standards within the audio mixing process.

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.