Target Groups
Cubase Studio helps both musicians and producers with every step of the music creation process: from the first idea through the arrangement to the final mix. In doing so, Cubase Studio offers various tools to meet your individual needs. And this is why Cubase Studio can be tweaked and used for all music styles and areas of application. Be it a recording engineer, rock guitarist, dance DJ, hip-hop producer, songwriter or film score composer, Cubase Studio users are among the most successful professionals in the world.
Singer/songwriter
Cubase Studio 5 is a helpful tool for singers and songwriters when it comes to recording vocal lines. With the features PitchCorrect plug-in, intonation problems are removed in real time, shifting recorded vocals to the next note value on a defined scale.
Cubase Studio 5 offers virtual instruments and sounds that let you create professional-sounding accompaniments, be it a playback for your vocal exercises or even an entire demo. Various effect plug-ins are available for editing your vocals, such as EQ, reverb, chorus and many others. Any VST plug-in can be recorded together with the signal or used exclusively for monitoring — ideal for those who don’t like to sing “dry” during recordings. And with several recording modes at your disposal, you can capture the perfect recording each and every time. In Stacked mode, each take is displayed as an event on an individual layer of the track in order for you to cut and paste different takes easily together. If you accompany your vocals with guitar, it goes without saying that your guitar music can also be recorded and edited extensively in Cubase Studio, which also includes a top-notch virtual guitar amplifier exactly for this reason.
Composer
With Cubase Studio, composers get a complete software notation program for professional score layouts. MIDI notes being played are translated directly to musical notation, resulting in a score that can be edited using more than 100 professional notation symbols. On the other hand, all playing instructions noted in the Score Editor are converted directly into MIDI parameters that can trigger any VST instrument in real time.
A special highlight for all composers is the new VST Expression featured in Cubase Studio 5, delivering an innovative solution for working with different instrumental articulations. VST Expression allows you intuitively and quickly to edit articulations directly in the Key and Score Editor.
Thanks to the integrated HALion ONE sample player, you have hundreds of sounds at your fingertips, including a slew of high-quality orchestral sounds played in different styles — perfectly complementing the new VST Expression functions. On top of this, you also get a fully functional 90-day trial version of HALion Symphonic Orchestra 16-bit Special Edition, the great-sounding virtual symphony orchestra created by Steinberg.
All composers working with comprehensive orchestra libraries also benefit from the native 64-bit support. Under Windows Vista 64, up to one terabyte of RAM can be addressed by Cubase Studio — providing space for more samples and allowing you to work more efficiently.
Cubase Studio 5 is also the perfect solution for film score composers. Video files of virtually all popular formats like AVI, MPEG and QuickTime can be displayed in a freely scalable video window within Cubase Studio or, alternatively, can be played back on an external monitor using the appropriate video hardware. The individual video frames are displayed as thumbnails in a video track, making it a whole lot easier to compose in sync with individual frames. Basic editing functionality, such as edit, cut and paste, are also readily available.
Beat producer
Cubase Studio 5 includes a ton of tools for the creative beat producer. The Groove Agent ONE drum machine combines powerful drum sampling with comprehensive sound design capability. Groove Agent ONE allows you to import sliced loops and MPC kits plus includes several acoustic and electronic drum kits. By using the Beat Designer step sequencer, you can quickly and intuitively program individual drum patterns. Including dozens of beats in different music styles, Beat Designer is the perfect complement to Groove Agent ONE, but can also be used with any other drum sampler of choice.
Alongside the included libraries of Groove Agent ONE, you can also use the high-quality drum kits of the HALion ONE sample player as well as a selection of inspiring loops made by Big Fish Audio — installed when adding the free VST Sound Collection.
Steinberg MediaBay lets you comfortably manage and listen in on all our drum samples, presets and loops, allowing you quickly to find the right sound file. By using the powerful AudioWarp tools, you can adjust the imported loops to any song tempo at the flick of switch — perfect for remixing other projects.
The added effects provide everything you need to let your beats sound punchier, louder and dirtier. Here you have a high-quality EQ, one compressor, limiters, distortion effects and a ton more in your hands, not to forget the featured full side-chaining support.
Electronic music producer
Producers of all types of electronic music find stunning virtual instruments and numerous effects in Cubase Studio 5.
Prologue is based on renowned synthesizer technology by VirSyn and is the perfect choice for any type of synth sound, covering everything from powerful low end and impressive leads up to spherical pads. In addition to the available presets, there are so many other ways to modulate, filter and edit your sound creatively. And the included HALion ONE sample player rounds out the rich sound spectrum of Cubase Studio 5. The handy Track Quick Controls and its MIDI Learn feature let you record those lively filter sweeps as well as virtually control every sound parameter, also with an external MIDI controller.
Cubase Studio also provides outstanding drum tools with the drum sampler Groove Agent ONE and the Beat Designer step sequencer for programming quick and individual grooves.
In case you crave even more sounds, simply turn to the hundreds of third-party software instruments that can perfectly be integrated into Cubase Studio through the VST interface.
There are more than 30 audio effects in Cubase Studio for sound designing and mixing: reverbs, delays, modulation effects, dynamic processors and many more. And it doesn’t stop here! Cubase Studio 5 also features 18 MIDI-effects, such as the powerful Arpache arpeggiator.
Many sequencers confine you to a certain way of doing things. Cubase Studio 5, on the other hand, allows you to choose between timeline- und pattern-based arranging — perfectly integrated into the familiar Project window. Using the Arranger function, you can define different segments of the song as Arranger parts and play them back in any order — the ideal solution for live performances.
Band
Be it in the rehearsal room or recording studio, recording your band with Cubase Studio 5 is as easy as it gets. The music production system by Steinberg offers outstanding quality due to its audio engine as well as flexible and time-saving recording and editing functionality. And with an unlimited number of audio tracks being at your disposal, you can even record, arrange and mix the most comprehensive projects with ease, provided your computer can cope with the workload.
Different recording modes and great tools allow you to manage multiple takes and find the perfect recording in a jiffy. Due to the integrated audio pre-record function, you won’t miss a single take (especially the really good ones) even when forgetting to activate the recording function. What’s more, Cubase Studio comes with PitchCorrect, a powerful tool which 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.
