Intuitive music notation and professional MIDI sequencing has never been easier
Cubase Studio 5 includes a highly intuitive MIDI sequencer. Based on 25 years of experience in developing easy-to-use editing and powerful composing features, Cubase once again sets a milestone with version 5. The strengths of the Cubase MIDI environment lie not only in the sheer depth of its capabilities, because it has been designed from the ground up to be accessible, easy to work with and effortlessly intuitive.
Key Editor
The Key Editor is a breathtakingly powerful yet transparent where melodies, chords, arrangements and performances take shape, and where ideas are sketched out, developed and taken to their full potential. Entering, cutting, moving and transposing individual notes or whole chords, editing any of the hundreds of MIDI parameters available or reworking even the most subtle nuances of a MIDI performance are just some of the tasks for which the Key Editor has been developed and refined continuously by Steinberg for over two decades. With the In-place Editing function, you can also process MIDI parts directly in the Project Window in context with other tracks.
Score Editor
The Score Editor is a full notation environment completely integrated within Cubase and lets you view your music in the form of scores, with full support for just about all symbol, display and editing options that this entails. With support for lyrics and remarks as well as drum notes, guitar tablature and lead sheets, the Cubase Score Editor includes hundreds of professional notation symbols: simply select the tools needed to create fully professional score layouts for others including soloists, orchestras and choirs.
Thanks to the full Music XML Import/Export support, even exchanging scores with other notation packages is only a matter of seconds. Adding to the stunning MIDI Meaning feature, the new VST Expression’s capability has been engineered to offer a new level of speed and intuitiveness when working with large sample libraries by introducing dynamic support for articulations and expressive notation that is automatically interpreted by a VST instrument. Cubase Studio 5 features an unparalleled combination of a fully featured composition, recording and mixing environment with comprehensive scoring features — ideal for composers.
Drum Editor
The Drum Editor is a highly intuitive yet powerful window for constructing and reworking beats, rhythms and grooves as well as creating individual drum maps for every employed instrument, offering a plethora of features to let you come up with the perfect rhythm for your song or production.
List Editor
The List Editor is a powerful MIDI editing tool that gives fast access to every single aspect of a MIDI note and can be a huge timesaver in complex projects.
MIDI plug-ins
To inspire you even further, Cubase includes a huge set of MIDI plug-ins that take your composition to the next level, with their vast array of additional tools to manipulate MIDI information in your project. The MIDI plug-ins include creative tools such as the new drum step sequencer Beat Designer, a powerful Arpeggiator, a MIDI pattern sequencer and a MIDI chord processor, as well as functional plug-ins such as a MIDI compressor for equalizing velocity variance and a Context Gate for selective MIDI data triggering/filtering. If you’re already a Cubase owner, you’ll be excited to find that all MIDI plug-ins in Cubase Studio 5 have a redesigned user interface. Additionally, several plug-ins offer minor enhancements over previous versions in Cubase Studio 5, such as Chorder with its Learn function.
VST Expression
With Cubase Studio 5, Steinberg has innovated even further to offer even more creative compositional tools. The new VST Expression feature revolutionizes working with instrument articulations. VST Expression allows seamless, transparent and most importantly integrated editing of articulations, with full control over multiple articulations in the Key and Score Editors. Articulations noted in the Score Editor can be played back immediately by sample-based orchestra libraries — in real time.
Virtual keyboard
The new virtual MIDI keyboard allows you to play and record notes by using the computer mouse or the keyboard — ideal for composing when on the go.
MIDI Monitor
The new MIDI Monitor plug-in can analyse incoming and played-back MIDI events from the host in real time for full transparency of MIDI information being recorded. Event type filters ease displaying and finding MIDI data, which can be exported to a file.
