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Advanced Music Production System

Cubase 5 comes with fully integrated new tools for working with loops, beats and vocals, such as LoopMash and VariAudio, combining with new composition features and the first VST3 convolution reverb to take musical creativity to new heights. With stunning innovations and additional enhancements that boost productivity and performance, Cubase 5 represents the absolute cutting edge in digital audio workstations.

New Features in Cubase 5

Cubase 5 adds even more creative possibilities and new technologies to the world’s premier music production software developed by Steinberg — providing the finest tools to producers, composers and musicians in any musical genre. VariAudio and PitchCorrect 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. And an array of additional enhancements and 64-bit technologies boost performance — all designed to inspire further musical creativity and productivity.

Beat Creation and Loop Mangling

Mash it up

LoopMash is a revolutionary virtual instrument that offers a unique and innovative way of creatively working with loops and beats to create stunning new rhythms and grooves. Seamlessly blendable variations of both the included loops and any loop from your library open up myriad new creative possibilities. LoopMash is based on a new audio analysis/synthesis engine, developed in collaboration with Yamaha, that matches similar elements across loops and beats, generating fresh and inspiring “mash-ups” from any rhythmic audio material

Drum sampling deluxe

Groove Agent ONE pairs powerful drum sampling with detailed sound shaping — seamlessly integrated into Cubase. Not only does it boast sliced loop and MPC-import but rocks right out of the box with its own custom library of only the finest acoustic, urban, hip hop and dance drum kits! Each of its virtual pads features a complete sound processing section that gives full control of textures, timbres and expressive qualities of each drum sound. Creation of custom kits with drag and drop from the MediaBay allows an extremely fluid and easy workflow.

Support for WAV, AIFF and the legendary MPC format Easy-to-use interface — the perfect fusion of functionality and simplicity Powerful editing section for each drum sound Automatically maps sliced Cubase audio parts or multiple audio events across the pads by simply dragging them directly to Groove Agent ONE Convert sliced audio loops to MIDI by dragging them back to a MIDI track

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. Getting really interactive with different grooves and variations has never been easier: Beat Designer organizes several patterns at once in customizable banks and can trigger each of them in real time and synced to Cubase with a MIDI keyboard.

Supports up to 64 steps per pattern Customizable resolution and time signature Support for flam hits and rolls Individual volume settings for each element in a beat allowing full control of the dynamics of any groove Comes with dozens of beats in various styles perfectly matching the Groove Agent ONE kits

Vocal Editing and Pitch Correction

Total vocal editing with VariAudio

VariAudio offers completely integrated vocal editing and pitch alteration of individual notes in monophonic vocal recordings and can solve intonation and timing problems with only a few mouse clicks. With cutting-edge technology Cubase 5 turns the dreams of musicians and producers into reality: editing vocal lines in the Sample Editor just as seamlessly and quickly as if editing MIDI notes in the renowned Key Editor.

• Gives you complete control over the melody and intonation
• Automatically corrects the intonation of vocal lines by quantizing the pitch and micro-pitch of an entire part
• All detected notes and segments can be converted to MIDI notes, including the micro-pitch envelope which translates to pitch bend MIDI data
• No noticeable artifacts, entirely preserve the soul of the recording and its sonic fidelity

On-the-fly pitch correction

Designed for vocal and solo instrument recordings, the new PitchCorrect VST3 plug-in brings easy and automatic intonation control and scale correction of vocal and monophonic instrument recordings to Cubase. PitchCorrect is based on the acclaimed Yamaha Pitch Fix technology and 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

• Corrects poor intonation without noticeable artifacts and preserves the sonic audio quality of the original performance
• Various parameters, like the Retune and Tolerance control, help adapting the retune rate to almost any performance style for very natural-sounding pitch correction
• Control the pitch of individual notes interactively from a MIDI keyboard in real time

New Dimensions for Your Mix

Experience in space with REVerence

REVerence is the world’s first VST3-based convolution reverb processor and benefits from every single aspect the VST3 standard has to offer. This sumptuously realistic reverb processor ships with an exceptionally sounding library including over 70 impulses created at some of the world’s most distinctive locations. If that’s not enough, REVerence supports the import of multi-channel custom user impulses and corresponding images.

First-class natural space simulation

• Emulates any acoustic environment, in stereo or surround — from a Studio-A room to a massive football arena
• Independent controls for early reflections as well as the reverb tail
• Exact control of the recorded impulse, giving total control over the decay time
• Completely smooth and glitch-free parameter switching
• Intuitive graphic waveform and spectrograph display and built-in EQ controls

New automation handling

The new automation handling in Cubase 5 is now more transparent and flexible than ever before, the centerpiece being the new automation panel, which offers a unified point of control for all automation settings.

Once a Key Command has been assigned, the new panel is at your instant command, offering new commands to manipulate automation data. The new Suspend Read and Write options exclude parameters from playing back or recording automation data, adding extra security when automating large projects.

Rule-based consolidation

Automating the MIDI area of productions has also been made far more transparent. Rule-based consolidation of part-based MIDI controller data and track-based automation data routed to the same target eliminates conflicts and fuses the two systems together.

Now it’s easy to use both MIDI Continuous Controller and MIDI automation (track) data on the same target and handle layered controller/automation data in a consistent way. This best-of-both-worlds approach really comes to life with the brand-new ability to view and edit MIDI track automation side by side and inline with existing MIDI controller data in the Key Editor or the Project Window.

Express Creative Visions

The composer’s choice: VST Expression

VST Expression is an ultra-intuitive new way of working with multiple instrument articulations, for example of huge orchestra libraries, and introduces an editing concept that is not only user-customizable but is also fully integrated with the Key and Score Editors. VST Expression makes working with instrument articulations as easy as it should be. Instead of handling all those MIDI controllers for switching articulations, VST Expression allows seamlessly and transparently integrated editing as well as full control over multiple articulations in the Key and Score Editors. Articulations noted in the Score Editor can be played back immediately in real time by orchestra or any other sample-based libraries like the all new electric and acoustic guitar, bass and brass expression sounds included in the new HALion ONE Expression Set 01

• Compatible with any current VSTi or stand-alone sample library, including Steinberg HALion Symphonic Orchestra and the new HALion ONE Expression Set 01
• Expression Map Editor provides mapping and remapping of articulation controllers, such as key switches, controller changes or MIDI channel remapping
• Using Expression Maps, projects can be ported for playback to a different sound device or library
• New Articulation Lane allows intuitive and fast editing of instrument articulations in the Key and Drum Editors
• When recording articulation changes, for example, key switches, the correct symbols are automatically added in the Score Editor

Your signature track

Cubase 5 comes armed with two brand-new track types: Signature Track and Tempo Track. These extremely useful new track types offer total control over tempo and time signature directly in the Project Window. Visualizing and editing tempo and signature changes within the project context next to audio, MIDI and markers offer a highly intuitive new way of exploiting every nuance of a song or composition with the right tempo and signature, whilst allowing greater freedom to experiment with new signatures.

• Available in both time linear and Bars+Beats modes
• Editing can be performed from both Info Line and Track Inspector, so advanced functions such as process tempo and process bars are always at your fingertips.
• Multiple selected events can be edited simultaneously, including drag‘n’drop actions
• Snap, Grid and Quantize function-dependent editing and Crosshair-cursor support

Monitor the data pipe

MIDI Monitor is the new MIDI plug-in featured in Cubase 5. It analyses incoming MIDI events as well as playing back MIDI events from the host in real time — ideal tool for troubleshooting, especially with its comments on suspicious events. The available event-type filters allow easy MIDI data display and results, which then can be exported to file.