Cubase Essential 4 is personal-music production software and is based on the same user interface and award-winning audio engine as Steinberg's flagship Cubase 4. Although considered an entry-level program, the software nonetheless offers powerful editing tools, a comprehensive set of plug-in effects, the HALion One Sample Player instrument and a great-sounding virtual guitar amplifier.
Formely designated as the Cubase SE product line, Cubase Essential 4 adds more than sixty new features and improvements over earlier incarnations. With a new Arranger Track, linear and pattern-style arranging is now seamlessly integrated. New AudioWarp real-time time stretching and pitch shifting makes working with loops and tempo-based audio easier than ever. Additionally, the Freeze function from Cubase 4 is now available in Cubase Essential 4.