Cubase Studio 5 from Steinberg is an audio/MIDI editor/recorder software program tailored to project studios and creative musicians. Built around the same core technologies as Steinberg's Cubase 5 with a slightly reduced feature set, the software still offers highly professional tools for composition, recording, editing and mixing.
The software is easy to use with virtually any audio interface that support ASIO or Core Audio and provides efficient functioning while helping deliver superior audio performance. Over 40 plug-ins provide huge sonic manipulation opportunities along with 3 integrated Virtual Instruments.
HALion One adds powerful sample playback synthesis, while Prologue is a rich-sounding virtual analog synthesizer. Add to that Beat Designer step sequencer as well as the new PitchCorrect intonation effect, along with additional enhancements to boost productivity and performance, and it becomes clear that Cubase Studio 5 offers unsurpassed performance in its price class.
- Native based audio means no expensive additional outboard equipment required when using computer built-in audio I/O
- Allows the user to choose from a multitude of high-end interfaces as budget and taste allows
- Simultaneous playback of unlimited audio tracks, dependent on the power of the computer
- Adaptive and configurable track mixer, with 2 different selectable views
- Freeze function allows virtual instruments and audio tracks to be frozen with or without insert effects, automatically freeing up RAM and CPU performance
- PitchCorrect VST3 plug-in allows for easy and automatic intonation control and scale correction of vocal and monophonic instrument recordings
- PitchCorrect constantly detects the pitch of the input material and immediately corrects it to match to the closest pitch of a user-specified scale, including minor, major, chromatic and custom scales
- Unlimited undo/redo with off-line process history for audio files
- Includes professional real-time VST effects and virtual instruments with Apogee UV22HR dithering included
- Includes 3 virtual instruments
- Instrument tracks provide a fast and convenient way to use virtual instruments by using a single MIDI Input and a single stereo Output within a single channel/track
- HALion ONE is a player version of the HALion sampler and includes hundreds of ready-to-use instruments which can be edited using 8 rotary controls
- Groove Agent ONE combines sampling with sound shaping and includes sliced loop and MPC-import, plus a custom library of acoustic, urban, hip hop and dance drum kits - each of the 16 virtual pads feature a complete sound processing section that gives full control of textures, timbres and expressiveness
- Prologue is a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer with multi-mode variable resonance filters, powerful modulation capabilities, on-board effects and hundreds of presets
- SoundFrame can help find any sound, not only by instrument but also by category, type, style, character or other attributes
- Editor windows include key (piano keyboard), drum, event list, sys-ex, score and logical
- Inplace Editor supports ultra-fast direct MIDI event editing from within the project page
- The key and drum editors make editing MIDI information easy with cut, copy and paste, or the drag and drop functionality
- MIDI events can be edited in context with audio or video
- Offers real time MIDI plug-ins such as quantizer, chorder, MIDI-echo, compressor and many more
- Controller data can be drawn and edited on one page with the new multiple controller lanes using the mathematical curve functions
- Supports direct access to external MIDI hardware with user-definable graphic editing panels
- Interactive, real-time graphic editing, project overview panel, savable screen sets and user-definable keyboard shortcuts
- Part-based Volume Envelopes available for direct control of dynamics
- Level problems can be fixed on the fly without wasting automation tracks allowing events to move with their volume envelopes
- Pattern-based arranging adds a new level of creative music editing - dividing a song into sections allows one to re-arrange it on the fly
- Alternative versions of the song can be compared and then converted back into a linear form for mixdown and mastering
- Window layouts help in organizing the desktop - user can create and save a separate workspace for each step of the production process and then switch workspaces on the fly
- User-definable color coding for tracks and VST mixer channels provides more clarity and better orientation, especially in complex projects
- Full score functionality provides a perfect integration of score-writing, sequencing and music production
- VST mixer maps can be import or user editing panels created, even for the Track Inspector or the mixer's channel strip