The fifth incarnation of Cubase is here!
Cubase Studio 5 takes all the power and flexibility from the previous versions, and bolsters it with impressive new features along with refinements of time-proven favorite features. Track and mix using 32-bit/96kHz technology and use a fresh crop of VST3 plug-ins to process your tracks. Onboard pitch correction and vocal editing tools make sure you always sound your best in Cubase Studio 5. For those of us working with loops and beat creation, there are plenty of tools onboard. This just scratches the surface, so keep reading for the scoop on Cubase Studio 5!
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Steinberg Cubase Studio 5 at a Glance:- MIDI/Compositional Tools
- VST Expression
- Next-generation audio engine
- Effects
MIDI/Compositional Tools
Intuitive music notation and professional MIDI sequencing has never been easier in Cubase! Cubase Studio 5 includes one of the most intuitive MIDI sequencers available. The Key Editor is a breathtakingly powerful yet transparent tool where melodies, chords, arrangements, and performances take shape, and where ideas are sketched out, developed and taken to their full potential. The Score Editor is a full notation environment completely integrated within Cubase and lets you view your music in the form of scores. Thanks to the full Music XML Import/Export support, even exchanging scores with other notation packages is only a matter of seconds.
VST Expression
With Cubase Studio 5, Steinberg has innovated even further to offer even more creative compositional tools. The 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.
Next-generation audio engine
The Cubase audio engine delivers a crystal-clear 32-bit floating-point resolution and 96kHz sample rate for optimal sound quality. 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 Studio 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.
Effects
Cubase Studio 5 comes with an impressive arsenal of high-quality VST effect processors, including EQ, Dynamics, Modulation, Reverb, Filters, Distortion and special effects. Together with the also included "Legacy Set" of original Cubase SX 3 effects, Cubase Studio 5 offers a total of 56 plug-ins right out of the box, making it Steinberg's most complete plug-in set ever. More than 1,000 great-sounding presets, which really allow experiencing the excellent quality of these effects from the first moment on are waiting to be explored.
- 32-bit floating-point audio engine
- Unlimited audio, Instrument, and MIDI tracks
- Audio Warp (real-time time stretching + pitch shifting)
- Time Warp tool
- Pitch Shifting/Time Stretching algorithm
- Dithering by Apogee UV22HR
- 44 plug-ins included
- 3 virtual instruments included
- Mac/PC
- Vista compatible