The full music production software package Cubase SE3 is on board. It pairs extensive audio and MIDI features with professional processing options and effects. Based on the latest VST 2.3 Audio Engine (32-bit floating point), Cubase SE3 offers fully automatic latency compensation. So go ahead and create your own music. And take advantage of a system that is compatible with all Cubase products used in professional studios around the world.
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HALion SE is the four-voice multi-timbral player version of the award-winning software sampler HALion. It ships with a Composer Library of its very own. HALion SE reads samples in HALion 2 and Soundfont 2 formats, thereby affording you direct access to millions of samples. In fact, HALion SE provides every thing you need for creating arrangements and building an extensive sample Library of your own. Courtesy of its exceptional Waldorf filters, HALion SE delivers sounds that are punchy, full and dynamic all around. The SE version also features the HALion sampler’s advanced disk streaming technology, which lets you tap the resources of bigger sample libraries without taking up acres of RAM real estate. The SE version of HALion can hold up to 32 programs simultaneously in the memory. In multimode, four of these programs can play simultaneously on different MIDI channels. Alongside HALion 2 and Soundfont 2 formats, HALion SE also supports samples in AIFF, WAV, REX, SD2 (Mac only), LM4 and LM4 Mk2 formats, all of which are easily imported via drag & drop.

The Grand SE offers glorious acoustic piano sounds in four different tonal variations (Natural, Warm, Bright and Hard). These options let you quickly and conveniently adapt the instrument’s sound to different musical styles. Like a bona fide concert grand, The Grand SE may be played across the full extent of its 88 keys with sustain, sostenuto and soft pedals. And you can tune the performance of The Grand SE to suit the CPU’s computing power.

The youngest member of the SE instrument family is Virtual Bassist SE. This lean variant of Virtual Bassist offers bass lines recorded by professional players. Five different styles with several variations on each are at your fingertips. All you have to do is play chords or root notes on the keyboard and Virtual Bassist SE will accompany every arrangement in the right key and tempo. Many playing parameters and phrasings are available, all of which may be controlled dynamically via mouse or MIDI controllers. Virtual Bassist SE can be played and controlled in a variety of ways: You can opt to work with the preset styles or play your own bass lines in single note mode using purely the instrument’s sound rather than its formidable chops. Every style offers variations and fills. You can have Virtual Bassist SE thump out a simple root notes or finesse its way through elaborate bass riffs. It also features parameters for controlling tempo (half, normal and double time), the swing factor and timing accuracy, which lets you lend your playing an even more natural feel. Other sound-sculpting parameters let you tweak the bass to taste. All these parameters may of course be automated.

Virtual Guitarist EE SE is the perfect rhythm guitarist for your songs. This easy-to-play instrument offers six styles that fit right in with every suitable arrangement. Like its bottom-line thumping brother Virtual Bassist SE, Virtual Guitarist EE SE is based on the real thing - electric guitars played by flesh-and-blood riff-meisters. You have full control over all musical and sound-shaping parameters. Handling is phenomenally easy and intuitive. Simply select one of the six different players and a suitable part (up to four variations). Then play the desired chord or root note on the connected MIDI keyboard and presto, you’ll hear a groovy guitar part locked into the timing and key of your arrangement. Virtual Guitarist responds to your attack dynamics as well as to pedals and control keys, so you can embellish performances with musically expressive fills, sustained chords, accents and syncopation.

Groove Agent SE is a powerful, easy-to-handle virtual drummer. Its 11 different styles may be varied in steps via the Complexity control and embroidered with fills and accents. In addition, you can adjust the volume and mute the individual percussion instruments used in each style. And of course you are free to control variations and fills via the keyboard and record them as MIDI automation data.

Though Groove Agent SE is great for playing back prefab rhythm patterns, it can do more than that: All instruments may be played separately via a MIDI keyboard, so you can also use it as a professional-sounding module to create drum grooves of your own.

Shoehorning a lot of synthesizing power into an easy-to-use package, D'cota SE ships with a highly advanced virtual analog audio sound generator. Its top-shelf, aliasing-free sound quality and flexible programming and modulation options come courtesy of two oscillators offering four standard waveforms each. Plus you get other complex waveforms, a multimode filter with two low-pass filters and one high-pass filter, FM modulation, ring modulation, two envelope generators and two LFOs per voice. What’s more, an integrated Arpeggiator and an effects unit providing distortion, delay and phaser effects are also on board.

Despite the multitude of parameters and modulation options, D'cota SE is amazingly easy to use. Its clearly arranged modulation matrix not only facilitates intuitive parameter and modulation source assignment, its clear view also provides at-a-glance insight into modulation links.