Steinberg Cubase Pro 13 – Music and Audio Production Software (Upgrade from Cubase AI 13) Steinberg

For registered owners of Cubase AI 13, which is included with select Steinberg and Yamaha hardware.

Cubase Pro condenses decades of music software development experience into the most advanced and intuitive audio production environment available today. Used by star producers and musicians for composing, recording, mixing and editing music, Cubase Pro combines outstanding audio quality, flexible handling, state-of-the-art audio and MIDI tools with a range of inspirational VST instruments and effects in a way that cements your personal approach to music production. Uniting technical innovation and artistic inspiration, Cubase Pro represents an awesomely powerful yet instantly accessible music production environment.

Features:

• New Channel Tab – Mix on the go – The new channel tab in the Project window gives you direct access to your mix, without leaving the arrangement. The new design means you can intuitively find what you need, letting you mix on the go in a compact, per channel view.
• MixConsole Update – Slick, Streamlined, Focused – The MixConsole has been given a fresh overhaul with a slick, streamlined design to help you focus on your mix.
• Range Tool Expanded – Increase your range – The Range tool is one of the most powerful tools in Cubase and it’s now available in the Key Editor as well as the Drum Editor.
• Editor – A new editor experience – Edit multiple parts from within the Key Editor and Drum Editor, switch between tracks with the Visibility tab and maintain an overview with the new Track display.
• Vocal Production – The ultimate vocal chain – Vocal processing is an art of its own, taking a lot of expertise and experience to master the different processing steps. The VocalChain plug-in provides dedicated modules for each step, helping to turn your recordings into professional-sounding vocal tracks.
• Chord Pads – Progress your progressions – The new chord pads make it easy to find creative chord progressions. New presets give you excellent starting points and enhanced functions make it even simpler to create unique music.
• Iconica Sketch – Sketch out your scores – Iconica Sketch allows everyone from beginners to professional composers to create full orchestral scores of the highest quality with 140 articulations for 34 instruments in a compact 5GB library.
• Sampler Track Spectral Warp Modes – Tweak it – The Sampler Track is even more creative, thanks to stunning new Spectral Warp modes for extreme manipulation and powerful envelope creation.
• Vocoder – The return of a legend – Create classic robotic vocals or add analog flavor to your instruments with the legendary Steinberg Vocoder. Use up to 24 filter bands, sidechain input, and enjoy in-depth control over the sound.
• New Tube Compressor – Compression with character – Black Valve is a classic tube compressor with lots of warmth and character. Its sonic detail makes this tribute to one of the most iconic studio processors really stand out.
• Two New EQs – Add class with frequency – Two new equalizers, the EQ-P1A and the EQ-M5, add a classy sound to your productions.
• New VoxComp – Be a vocal specialist – The new VoxComp is a compressor specifically designed for vocals, gently taming your recordings without compromising clarity, transients, or expression.
• Five New Sample Packs – Creative starting points – Be inspired by five exclusive new sample packs by Grammy-winning producer Beat Butcha, creative mastermind Sharooz, and acclaimed sample boutiques 91Vocals and Touch Loops.
  Step / Midi Input – Step in a new direction – The Step and MIDI Input features are now more even powerful. Modify note lengths on the fly
• and add voices on top with the new polyphonic note input feature.
• Key Editor – Simplified CC recording – MIDI CCs can now be recorded in simplified ramps to make it quicker and easier for editing the controller events afterwards.
• Track Versions for Video – New version, new video editing. – Working with new video edits is now more convenient with new Track Versions for the Video Track.
• Start Modes – Where to start? You decide. – Do you want to start from the cycle marker, the last position or your selection? Configure where playback starts to precisely match your workflow.
• Transport Bar – Tap your tempo – Easily adjust the project tempo to the beat with the new Tap Tempo feature in the Transport Bar.
• Channel Configuration – Quick channel change – Change the channel type from mono to stereo or vice versa with just one click.
• Vertical Zoom – Zoom in up or down – Zoom in and out vertically with the mouse wheel and decide whether you want to zoom to transport or selection.
• Key Command Management – The key to your commands – The new Key Command dialog makes managing your short cuts quick and easy. Find commands easier with the dynamic filter and try new macros on the fly.
• New Key Commands – Even quicker and easier. – Cubase 13 introduces many new commands that will make your life easier including rename selected events, add marker on active marker track, and move range to next hit point.
• Import Tracks From Projects – More flexible importing – There are several new options that give you more flexibility and control when importing tracks, events, and time ranges.
• MIDI Plugins – Design matters – MIDI plug-ins have had a design overhaul with a fresh new look.
• MIDI 2.0 – Ready for MIDI 2.0 – With support for high resolution velocity, CC, aftertouch, pitch bend, and poly pressure data, Cubase 13 is ready for the widespread adoption of MIDI 2.0.
• Routing – Return your ways – You can now set instrument tracks/racks/sampler return channels as inputs for audio tracks, as well as FX and group channels.
• Demo Projects – New demos – Explore three new excellent showcase demo projects, including productions by Austin Hull and Azodi.
• Window Management – Better window handling… – Cubase now features Windows-compliant multi-window handling.
• Video Engine – …Improved video engine – The Windows video engine has been improved, including GPU hardware decoding for H264 and better overall performance.

From Hollywood blockbuster composers and Billboard Hot 100 producers right through to keen beginners, the world of music production trusts in Cubase.

Channel Strip (Advanced)
The channel strip modules are the very heart of our exceptional sound. Carefully crafted in close collaboration with seasoned audio engineers who have many years of experience working with the best hardware mixing consoles, the channel strip modules are integrated into every channel and deliver the stunning, professional mixer quality essential for you to turn your music into fantastic productions.

Chord Pads
This inspiring tool helps you compose music quickly and creatively. It is very easy to get “stuck” when writing chord progressions but, with the fast and easy-to-use Chord Pads, fresh inspiration will always be close at hand. Jam with chords and patterns in real time and control multiple parameters to change chords as you go. The chord pads are playable via a MIDI controller and real-time parameters allow you to easily improvise chord performances by changing voicings, tensions and much more while you are letting the music and inspiration carry you along!

Sampler Track 2
Take any piece of audio and use it to create a Sampler Track. You can then play the sample chromatically and manipulate it with the onboard filters, controls and two LFOs, experimenting to come up with new and innovative ideas. Slicing mode chops up your loops so they’re ready-to-play with just a click while, for the 808 lovers, there’s the mono legato glide!

Vocal Chain
Vocal processing is an art of its own, taking a lot of expertise and experience to master the different processing steps. The VocalChain plug-in provides dedicated modules for each step, helping to turn your recordings into professional-sounding vocal tracks.

VariAudio 3
VariAudio offers fully-integrated vocal editing and pitch change of individual notes in monophonic vocal recordings, allowing you to solve intonation and timing problems with just a few clicks. Editing vocal lines in the Sample Editor is as fast and seamless as if editing MIDI notes in the Key Editor. Full integration with the Chord Track ensures correct pitch for your harmonies at all times, even letting you harmonize your lead vocals in stunning choral arrangements. Smart Controls significantly speed up your workflow by allowing direct control of all parameters at each segment. You can edit the micro pitch level for smooth drifts and transitions, adjust the formant shift for perfect natural tones or drastically transform your recordings with extreme pitch corrections… and everything in between. And if you want the popular ‘robot voice’ effect, it’s easily achieved!

MixConsole
Cubase’s MixConsole excels not only in terms of usability, look and feel, but also sounds like a high end analog mixing console. Featuring a scalable, dedicated full-screen mode, the MixConsole is optimized for mouse-free operation – virtually all channel elements are accessible via the computer keyboard and screen reader software for the visually impaired. Featuring View Sets and Channel Zones for the utmost flexibility, ‘one click’ direct routing, customizable track icons, track notepad, drag-and-drop support and plug-in / channel search function, it feels like having a state-of-the-art mixing console in your computer – and sounds like it, too.

New Licensing System
For many years, the USB eLicenser has been ever-present for the Cubase community. But no longer. Cubase 12 ushers in a new era with a licensing system that doesn’t need a physical copy protection device and also lifts many restrictions of the past.

Audio Warp Quantize
Warp-quantize multiple audio tracks at once using the convenient Quantize panel. By creating warp markers straight from hitpoints, both single audio loops as well as the entire arrangement can be non-destructively quantized with a single mouse click — just like MIDI parts. Importantly, because the audio events are warped, rather than sliced, they automatically follow any tempo or pitch changes of your project, while remaining uncluttered for easy arrangement.

Comping
Create the perfect version of a recording from multiple takes. Few performers are skilled enough to always get it “right the first time”’ in the recording environment, so comping is a vital part of the process. When recording several takes in a loop, Lanes are created instantly for each track being recorded. From here, it is very simple to create the perfect version. Simply swipe across the best parts and a master take containing all selected parts will be created automatically. In addition, the Comp tool offers extremely useful click-and-drag features for instant results.

MIDI Remote
MIDI controllers are essential to every music production setup. MIDI Remote Scripts will help to automatically detect your device and map the controls. If there is no script for your device yet, you can easily create your own with the MIDI Controller Surface Editor. You can then conveniently connect controls and parameters with the Mapping Assistant.

Scale Assistant
Set your song’s scale in the Key Editor and follow its lead, quantize a solo to the scale or play live in perfect tune. You can change the view to only see the notes of the set scale. You can even let the Scale Assistant analyze your MIDI recording and suggest the right scale.

Groove Agent SE
Possibly the most comprehensive drum production software instrument ever produced, Groove Agent features a huge library of stunning samples, grooves and patterns, as well as a full virtual mixer and FX suite for even more creative options. Groove Agent SE features an exceptionally powerful beat production toolkit, ready to help you create the best beats, whatever genre you’re working in. Produce floor-shaking sounds and dancefloor-filling grooves with an array of incredible sample manipulation tools, FX, slice editors and much more. Thanks to its deep integration, you will be able to see the instruments mapped automatically as drum maps into the Drum Editor and Beat Designer.

Spectral Comparison EQ
Clean up overlapping frequencies with the comparison mode in the Channel EQ. Create room for each instrument by comparing and editing the spectral curves from two different tracks within one EQ display.

Advanced Audio Export
Sync your export selection to the selection in your project. You can export the full signal path, including master bus effects, to truly replicate the mix. In addition Cubase lets you collect your export jobs and export the whole queue in one go.

Control Room
Control Room is a unique recording and monitoring environment, which seamlessly integrates performer mixes and monitoring setups into your recording and mixing workflow. Cubase allows you to create and manage up to four unique studio mixes to feed performers with their own tailored mix, use the integrated talkback function and manage feeds from external audio sources.

Easy side-chaining
This commonly-used technique is very popular in contemporary music production and has a wide range of creative applications, from creating the well-known bass ‘pumping effect’ or making space for the kick drum in your mix to many other sonic effects. It is also a very helpful tool for sound designers to use a sound source to modulate the behavior of a totally different sound, creating interesting ambiences or otherworldly effects. Our straightforward side-chain setup lets you create the desired routing with just a few clicks. Activate side-chaining in your FX plug-in, select the source from the track list and it is ready to go.