Description

 New Features in Cubase 5
Cubase 5 adds even more creative possibilities and new technologies to the worldΓΓé¼Γäós premier music production software developed by Steinberg ΓΓé¼ΓÇ¥ providing the finest tools to producers, composers and musicians in any musical genre. 

Beat Creation and Loop Mangling
Cubase 5 features outstanding new tools for creating beats, generating exciting new rhythms and working with loops. 

Mash it up
LoopMash is a revolutionary virtual instrument that offers a unique and innovative way of creatively working with loops and beats to create stunning new rhythms and grooves. Seamlessly blendable variations of both the included loops and any loop from your library open up myriad new creative possibilities. LoopMash is based on a new audio analysis/synthesis engine, developed in collaboration with Yamaha, that matches similar elements across loops and beats, generating fresh and inspiring ΓΓé¼┼ômash-upsΓΓé¼┬¥ from any rhythmic audio material. Click here to check out the video tutorial.

Brand-new, first-of-its-kind interactive loop synthesizer
Creates entirely new and unique variations on the fly by simply dragging existing loops from MediaBay or the Project Window onto LoopMash
Entirely synced to the Cubase Tempo
Integrated editing tools and powerful live performance mode with user-definable scenes.

NEW IN CUBASE 5.5: With Cubase 5.5 LoopMash has been updated to version 1.2. Customer feature requests have also flown into this release: each track now features an automatic volume control as well as an individual level meter to adjust and control level inconsistencies between source loops. A ruler and beat numbers have been added as well to improve control. 
To provide a macro-control of loop mangling results, a new global threshold control has been implemented. This ensures that across all tracks only slices with a similarity factor above the threshold will be considered for playback, while slices below the threshold wonΓΓé¼Γäót be taken into account. Now itΓΓé¼Γäós even easier to control the overall density of a loop construct - from silky smooth to ultra-intense with just one slider!

Drum sampling deluxe
Groove Agent ONE pairs powerful drum sampling with detailed sound shaping ΓΓé¼ΓÇ¥ seamlessly integrated into Cubase. Not only does it boast sliced loop and MPC-import but rocks right out of the box with its own custom library of only the finest acoustic, urban, hip hop and dance drum kits! Each of its virtual pads features a complete sound processing section that gives full control of textures, timbres and expressive qualities of each drum sound. Creation of custom kits with drag and drop from the MediaBay allows an extremely fluid and easy workflow.

Support for WAV, AIFF and the legendary MPC format
Easy-to-use interface ΓΓé¼ΓÇ¥ the perfect fusion of functionality and simplicity
Powerful editing section for each drum sound
Automatically maps sliced Cubase audio parts or multiple audio events across the pads by simply dragging them directly to Groove Agent ONE
Convert sliced audio loops to MIDI by dragging them back to a MIDI track.

NEW IN CUBASE 5.5:  Groove Agent ONE, has been updated to version 1.1 and comes packed with new features requested by our customers along with brand-new content! Transferring user drum kits between different systems has been heavily improved: using the import and new export button is now quicker and more transparent than ever before. A handy search function has also been added to expedite the search process, just in case one of the custom samples used by an imported drum kit goes missing on the target system. Another often requested feature has found its way into Groove Agent ONE: adjusting sample start / end points  directly in the Voice Edit window. The clever auto-zooming mechanism ensures that the right portion of the sample is displayed so the user doesnΓΓé¼Γäót need to manually zoom or scroll around. ItΓΓé¼Γäós also possible to use the mouse wheel to control any parameters of Groove Agent ONE with a simple mouse click.

But thatΓΓé¼Γäós not all. We brought together 19 brand-new and exclusive drum kits made out of over 800 finest vintage drum machine samples in order to give the user an even bigger arsenal that is bound to fuel the userΓΓé¼Γäós creativity!

Beat it!
Beat Designer is a hot new beat construction plug-in that allows you to get hands-on with beats for step programming and designing drum patterns in an easy yet powerful way, working hand in hand with Groove Agent ONE. Getting really interactive with different grooves and variations has never been easier: Beat Designer organizes several patterns at once in customizable banks and can trigger each of them in real time and synced to Cubase with a MIDI keyboard.

Supports up to 64 steps per pattern
Customizable resolution and time signature
Support for flam hits and rolls
Individual volume settings for each element in a beat allowing full control of the dynamics of any groove
Comes with dozens of beats in various styles perfectly matching the Groove Agent ONE kits

Vocal Editing and Pitch Correction
Cubase 5 comes with an amazing new toolset for perhaps the most important element in any song: the vocals.
 Total vocal editing with VariAudio
VariAudio offers completely integrated vocal editing and pitch alteration of individual notes in monophonic vocal recordings and can solve intonation and timing problems with only a few mouse clicks. With cutting-edge technology Cubase 5 turns the dreams of musicians and producers into reality: editing vocal lines in the Sample Editor just as seamlessly and quickly as if editing MIDI notes in the renowned Key Editor.

Gives you complete control over the melody and intonation
Automatically corrects the intonation of vocal lines by quantizing the pitch and micro-pitch of an entire part
All detected notes and segments can be converted to MIDI notes, including the micro-pitch envelope which translates to pitch bend MIDI data

No noticeable artifacts, entirely preserve the soul of the recording and its sonic fidelity.

On-the-fly pitch correction
Designed for vocal and solo instrument recordings, the new PitchCorrect VST3 plug-in brings easy and automatic intonation control and scale correction of vocal and monophonic instrument recordings to Cubase. PitchCorrect is based on the acclaimed Yamaha Pitch Fix technology and 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.

Corrects poor intonation without noticeable artifacts and preserves the sonic audio quality of the original performance
Various parameters, like the Retune and Tolerance control, help adapting the retune rate to almost any performance style for very natural-sounding pitch correction
Control the pitch of individual notes interactively from a MIDI keyboard in real time.

New Dimensions for Your Mix
Cubase 5 has numerous new features that will help you bring new depth to your mix ΓΓé¼ΓÇ¥ in more ways than one. 
 Experience in space with REVerence
REVerence is the worldΓΓé¼Γäós first VST3-based convolution reverb processor and benefits from every single aspect the VST3 standard has to offer. This sumptuously realistic reverb processor ships with an exceptionally sounding library including over 70 impulses created at some of the worldΓΓé¼Γäós most distinctive locations. If thatΓΓé¼Γäós not enough, REVerence supports the import of multi-channel custom user impulses and corresponding images.

First-class natural space simulation
Emulates any acoustic environment, in stereo or surround ΓΓé¼ΓÇ¥ from a Studio-A room to a massive football arena
Independent controls for early reflections as well as the reverb tail
Exact control of the recorded impulse, giving total control over the decay time
Completely smooth and glitch-free parameter switching
Intuitive graphic waveform and spectrograph display and built-in EQ controls
NEW IN CUBASE 5.5: The CPU performance of REVerence has been improved, especially when used in low-latency environments.

And more!