• Audio + MIDI Recording and Mixing
• Virtual Instruments and Effects
• Professional Technology (32-bit Audio Engine, 24-bit/96-kHz Recording)
• Powerful Editors for MIDI and Audio Processing
• Cross-platform (Mac OS X/PC)

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With powerful tools for composing, recording, editing, and mixing, Cubase SE 3 software is your entry-level ticket to the world of computer-based music production. The latest member to join the Cubase product family, Cubase SE 3 shines with the same user interface and award-winning VST Audio Engine as Steinberg’s flagship Cubase SX3. And that means when it comes to audio quality and intuitive handling, Cubase SE 3 rivals its bigger brothers. Any way you choose to us… More >>

Steinberg Cubase SE 3 Music Creation and Production System, ¹

• Audio Warp: Realtime Time-Stretching and Pitch Shifting
• Intuitive Play Order Track for pattern-based arranging
• New In-place Editor supports ultrafast direct MIDI event editing
• New MIDI Device Maps/Panels support direct access to external MIDI hardware
• User-definable Workspaces (window layouts) help organizing your desktop

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Steinberg Cubase SX3 Recording Software takes music production to a new level. They’ve added more than 70 updates including powerful Audio Warp realtime time-stretching, an intuitive Play Order Track, convenient In-place Editing, and many new editing functions. For the first time, a native music production system combines full-featured audio and MIDI recording and editing, virtual instruments, and powerful audio mixing with the added flexibility of loop- and pattern… More >>

Steinberg Cubase SX3 Recording Software

• ISBN13: 9781435455115
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Get ready to dive into Cubase 5! This book provides a thorough look at the most common as well as lesser-known features of this impressive digital audio production software. Beyond describing the features of the program and how they work, Cubase 5 Power! tells why to use certain features and when they are most beneficial to your recording project. You’ll gain a better understanding of Cubase while learning how to use all the exciting new tools in version 5, includ… More >>

Cubase 5 Power!: The Comprehensive Guide

• Award-winning 32-bit floating-point audio engine
• Virtually unlimited number of audio tracks
• Unlimited number of MIDI tracks
• Unlimited number of instrument tracks
• Physical Inputs/Outputs: 256

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The Educational Edition of Steinberg Cubase 5 gives your students even more creative possibilities and new technologies while working with one of the world’s most popular DAW software packages. The latest version of Cubase 5 provides exceptional tools for artists working in any musical genre. VariAudio and Pitch Correct provide integrated intonation editing for monophonic vocal recordings. Groove Agent ONE and Beat Designer change the game for beat creation, while t… More >>

Steinberg Cubase 5 DAW Software – Education Edition

• 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
• More Sounds for More Music – Cubase Essential 5 comes with a new exceptional polyphonic subtractive synthesizer, 240 additional premium instrument sounds for HALion ONE and a new autopanning effect
• Enhanced MIDI – featuring numerous enhanced MIDI features, Cubase Essential 5 now includes MIDI loop support, redesigned MIDI effect plug-ins and improved MIDI automation
• 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

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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 … More >>

Steinberg Cubase Essential 5 – Windows

Cubase is the most widely-used sequencing program in the world with well over one million registered users. Designed for professionals from the ground up, Cubase converges extraordinary sound quality, intuitive handling and a vast range of highly advanced audio and MIDI tools for composition, recording, editing and mixing.

The first version of Cubase appeared in 1989 for the Atari ST computer although the programmer, Charlie Steinberg who gave his name to the company, had been creating sequencers for the Commodore 64 and Atari since the early 80s.

The release of Cubase in 1993 on the Atari Falcon was a breakthrough in DSP software technology as realtime manipulation of audio was possible without the assistance of additional processor cards, as was the case with the more costly Pro Tools and other similar systems. Cubase also sports a well-designed and fully functional midi and score editor, which seems to come as an afterthought in many sequencers even Pro Tools. If you want to record and tweak the sound with Cubase’s native reverbs, eq and dynamics, all of the tools of the trade are there and much more improved from a graphic user interface standpoint.

Now owned by Yamaha, Steinberg is greatly benefiting from the music giants ownership. After all Yamaha is the largest musical instruments manufacturer in the world.

Designed for professionals from the ground up, Cubase 4 sets a new standard for integrated music production software by combining powerful audio and MIDI recording, synthesis, editing, mixing and effects. The brand new VST3 effect plug-in set and new first-class VST instruments are only the beginning. There are also new VST instruments, including three outstanding new synthesizers (Prologue, Spector and Mystic as well as HALion One sample player with hundreds of new instruments based on Yamaha Motif waveform), and the new Instrument Track class accelerates handling of VST Instruments and combines MIDI and plug-in automation within the same track.

Tailored for composers, musicians and project studios as well as students and educators, Cubase Studio 4 still offers professional music production technology thanks to a high-quality set of essential tools, but at a lower price point than Cubase 4.

Customers who purchase Cubase 4 will find additional advanced features required for the final production phases including surround support, full Control Room functionality and specialised plug-ins and tools for creating a final mixdown.

These music tools will allow you to write tunes in a way that more directly relates to musical notation. But the input may instead be one of the time value reporters included in the Music Tools. Pro Tools MP3 OptionBy including the Pro Tools MP3 Option, the Music Production Toolkit makes it easy to listen to a new mix on a portable device or quickly share it with other band members without having to use a separate application. We all need the proper tools to create music, and by “tools” I don’t mean acertain brand of instrument or amplifier, but rather the music we hear inside.

In Summary Cubase in my opinion at least is the Dewalt Power tool of the production world. Powerful and Reliable.

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• 8-track playback, 2-track simultaneous recording with 80 V-takes ^2 balanced XLR – 1/4-inch phone combo inputs with phantom power^16 bit, 44.1 kHz linear PCM recording in WAV format^Over 100 effects for guitar/bass/vocal recording, mixing, and mastering^Drum and Bass machine with touch-sensitive pads and approximately 500 drum sounds

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Decisions decisions. Do you need a full-featured hard drive digital recorder or a computer loaded with DAW software and a pile of digital interfaces? ZOOM engineers have made this decision easy, just do both. With the new ZOOM HD Series recorders you get a fully loaded hard drive based digital workstation that allows you to record, in your studio or live on location, and then upload the tracks into your computer to the supplied Cubase LE DAW software. The ZOOM HD re… More >>

Zoom HD8CD Multitrack Recording Studio with Cubase LE Recording Software

• Award-winning Cubase 32-bit floating-point audio engine: yes
• Number of audio, MIDI and instrument tracks: unlimited
• Physical inputs/outputs: 256
• Mac OS X Universal Binary: yes
• Vista 64 native Cubase 64-bit version: yes

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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. Cubase 5 adds even more creative possibilities and new t… More >>

Steinberg Cubase 5 DAW Software

Pro Tools, Cubase, Nuendo, SONAR, Acid, Digital Performer, & Logic. These are the most popular digital audio programs for recording and mixing music. With so many choices it can seem difficult to know which one you should choose but once you consider what type of computer you are using and what type of music you want to make you’ll find that many of the choices are eliminated which in turn makes your choice far easier.

There are a lot of things to consider when making this choice. The first is what kind of computer system you are using.

I am not going to tell you whether you should use a PC or a Mac as that argument long ago became tedious. You can create a top quality computer based music studio with a PC or a Mac. But what I am going to tell you is that you need to definitely consider your computer type when making this software decision as some programs only work with one or the other (or work much better with one or the other.)

If you are basing your system on a PC then you first of all want to cross MOTU’s Digital Performer and Apple’s Logic off your list as they are Mac only programs. I would also advise you to not choose Pro Tools if you’re on a PC.

Yes, I know Pro Tools is the “industry standard” but that’s mostly because people love to do what everyone else is doing. There’s nothing special about Pro Tools. Sure it’s a great piece of software, but so is Nuendo.

And the problem is that Pro Tools just isn’t a good choice for PC users. Currently it doesn’t even work with Windows Vista and while the next version is supposed to be Vista compatible we don’t know when that version will be available and even then, it will only be compatible with the “Ultimate” version of Vista (if you currently own the regular version of Vista that will be a $200 upgrade.) On top of that, even on XP Pro Tools doesn’t work nearly as well as it does on the Mac. It’s definitely a good choice for Mac users, but you should avoid it if you are on the PC.

So what’s left for PC users? Steinberg’s Nuendo & Cubase along with Sony’s Acid and Cakewalk’s SONAR. Acid & SONAR are only to be used by Windows based computer but Steinberg’s Nuendo & Cubase are well suited for both Windows PCs and Macs.

If you are looking for the best audio quality you can get (and you’re willing to pay more for it) and you do not use MIDI very much then Nuendo is probably your best choice. It’s also the right choice for those working with audio for use with video and for those interested in working with surround sound.

Cubase & Sonar are great choices for those who use MIDI a lot. But you shouldn’t think that these programs are only about MIDI, they are also great for recording and mixing audio.

Sony’s Acid is for loop based music like electronica and rap. Really, I do not think it is a very good fit for most people. Unless you make loop based music, don’t choose Acid.

Mac users will probably end going with Pro Tools but Digital Performer & Logic are also great choices. I would recommend downloading the demo versions of each of these programs and seeing which one works for you. You may also want to choose Cubase or Nuendo. Remember that software also works well on PCs so it may make you more versatile in a way to learn those programs.