Steinberg Cubase Essential 5 $159

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Cubase Essential 5 adds even more creative possibilities and new technologies to the entry-level version of the Cubase family, perfect for musicians and home studios. The latest incarnation of Cubase Essential includes enhancements like the new PitchCorrect plug-in to automatically correct vocal intonation, Beat Designer to produce beats and rhythms in next to no time, over 700 instruments and sounds to kick-start your projects as well as many other exciting innovations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cubase Essential 5 – Personal Music Production System

With an easy, intuitive approach to composing, recording, editing and mixing, Cubase Essential 5 is your gateway to the world of Cubase. Cubase Essential 5 shines with the same user interface and award-winning audio engine as the Steinberg Cubase 5 advanced music production system used by countless professionals around the globe. So whether you’re composing songs at home, recording your band in the rehearsal room or remixing the latest hip-hop and dance tracks on a laptop while on the move: Cubase Essential 5 combines premium virtual instruments, outstanding audio and MIDI VST effects with a vast range of proven editing and sequencing tools while being extremely easy to use.

On-the-fly Pitch Correction

The new PitchCorrect VST3 plug-in brings easy and automatic intonation control and scale correction of vocal and monophonic instrument recordings to Cubase Essential 5.

Designer Beats and Grooves

Beat Designer is the hot new beat construction plug-in that really allows getting hands-on with beats for step programming and designing drum patterns in an easy yet powerful way!

Project Assistant

By updating Cubase Essential to version 5.1.1, you get the Project Assistant which provides a wealth of ready-made templates for different styles and scopes like recording, mixing, producing and mastering. The templates contain the number of channels, effects, dynamics, amp simulators and channel inserts — tailored to your particular needs. Creating customized user templates and integrating those into the Launch browser makes recording with a DAW software and audio interface just that easy. Start up Cubase Essential, go to Project Assistant and select a template from the list. A new project is created with the necessary number of tracks, audio input and output routings, all effects, amp simulator, sounds and much more. Thanks to this assistant, initializing a Cubase Project from scratch even saves professionals a lot of time — and as we all know, time is money.

Refined Editing

The Cubase Essential 5 Sample Editor is one of the most advanced audio editing tools directly integrated into a DAW on the market today. Enhancing previously available features and adding new ones, the Sample Editor now gives access to pivotal parameters faster than ever before. With Cubase Essential 5, the Sample Editor sees increased usability, with several tab items moved to the toolbar to improve handling by providing easier access to important functions. The additional enhancements include an info-line toggle button, a Solo button, reworked Snap functionality, new Key Commands handling and much more.

This range of new features and enhancements in Cubase Essential 5 pushes both precision audio editing and project-wide editing to new heights.

Enhanced MIDI

Featuring numerous enhanced MIDI features, Cubase Essential 5 now includes MIDI loop support, redesigned MIDI effect plug-ins and improved MIDI automation.

More Sounds for More Music

With the great VST instruments and effects featured in Cubase Essential 5, you now have a wealth of fresh sounds right at your fingertips.

A prologue to epic sound

Prologue is the exceptional rich-sounding virtual analog synthesizer with incredible sound shaping capabilities, based on renowned synthesizer technology by VirSyn. Its multi-mode variable resonance filters, powerful modulation capabilities and excellent onboard effects make it a natural need to musicians and sound programmers looking for uncompromised sound quality and features packaged into a clean and intuitive interface.

HALion ONE expanded

Cubase Essential 5 adds almost 230 premium sounding instrument sounds for HALion ONE, including the entire HALion ONE Studio Set previously found in Cubase 5 and Cubase Studio 5 only. These ready-to-play sounds cover a massive selection of new drums, basses, leads, guitars, strings and pads and a wide variety of keyboard sounds that are aimed at keyboard players, producers and DJs creating slick hip-hop and R’n’B tracks, but also gnarly rock tunes.

Smoother Workflow

Cubase Essential 5 also comes with a range of additional new ways of working faster, with added performance and redesigned and enhanced features.

System requirements

 

• MAC: OS X 10.5.5, PowerPC G5 (Intel Core Duo CPU recommended), 1024 MB RAM, Display resolution 1024 x 768 pixels recommended, CoreAudio compatible audio hardware, DVD-ROM drive with dual-layer support, 4 GB of free HD space, USB component port for Steinberg Key (copy protection), Internet connection for license activation

• Windows: Windows XP or Windows Vista, 2 GHz CPU (dual core CPU recommended), 1024 MB RAM, Display resolution 1024 x 768 pixels, Windows DirectX compatible audio hardware (ASIO compatible audio hardware recommended for low-latency performance), DVD-ROM drive with dual-layer support, 4 GB of free HD space, USB component port for Steinberg Key (copy protection), Internet connection for license activation