Steinberg Cubase Elements 12 - Retail Box

Steinberg Cubase Elements 12 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 Elements 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 Elements represents an awesomely powerful yet instantly accessible music production environment.

WHAT'S NEW IN CUBASE 12?

MIDI REMOTE INTEGRATION

MIDI controllers are essential to every music production setup and, in Cubase 12, integrating them has reached a new level. Built around the new concept of MIDI Remote Scripts, Cubase will 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.

AUDIO TO MIDI CHORDS

Have you forgotten what you just played? Don’t worry. Just drag your audio recording to the Chord Track and Cubase will lay out the chord progression for you. And if the detection does not match your scale, the Chord Assistant can suggest the nearest alternatives based on the following chords. The new Create Chord Events from Audio feature in Cubase blurs the borders between audio and MIDI, letting you focus on the music. Just like it should be.

EDITING WORKFLOW IMPROVEMENTS

When deadlines are tight, you need to work fast. We have improved the editing workflows with new functions and key commands to help. The new nudge grid options let you edit independently from the project grid. Additionally, we have added key commands to the Range Selection tool for easier navigation. There are also new key commands to slip event content, adding fades and sizing events with fades. So there are no more excuses for not meeting deadlines (but we won’t tell your clients)!

OTHER KEY FEATURES:

• Goodbye dongle: 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
• Performance improvements: Cubase 12 features significant improvements in several areas including upgrade performance when navigating and zooming within huge projects - Cubase 12 is faster and snappier than ever before!
• Import tracks from project improvements: You can now import tempo and signature tracks from other projects and track archives, making for seamless exchange between projects
• Smooth waveform drawing: Cubase 12 introduces new smooth waveform drawing that is easier on the eyes and makes it even easier for you to edit audio with pinpoint accuracy
• Native Apple silicon support: For those using the latest Macintosh computers, Cubase 12 introduces native Apple silicon support
• Bluetooth MIDI in Windows: Cubase now supports MIDI over Bluetooth in Windows 10 or higher
• ARA improvements: ARA Extensions can now be applied at track level, letting you conveniently edit all events within that track
• New SuperVision modules: Amazingly useful new modules to SuperVision, including a VU meter, spectrum keyboard, phasebalance, level and loudness histograms - monitoring every aspect of your projects is now even better
• Audio export with sidechain support: Audio export of individual channels or stems now allows you to print audio, including taking side-chain input from tracks outside of the stem group into account
• Advanced crossfade editor: The advanced crossfade editor offers more control, new operations and advanced editing, to help you create the perfect blend

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

• Operating systems (Windows): 64-bit Windows 11 (version 21H2 or higher); 64-bit Windows 10 (version 21H2 or higher)
• Operating systems (Mac): macOS Monterey; macOS Big Sur
• Apple silicon-based Mac: Native App Rosetta 2 App
• CPU minimum (Windows): Intel Core i5 (4th Generation) or AMD Ryzen
• CPU minimum (Mac): Intel Core i5 (mid 2013 or later) or Apple silicon
• CPU cores: 4 or more
• RAM minimum: 8 GB
• Hard disk free space (full installation): 70 GB
• Display resolution minimum at 100% UI scaling: 1440 x 900
• Graphics minimum (Windows): Graphics card with native Windows 10 support (Microsoft Basic Display Driver is not recommended)
• Graphics recommended (Windows): AMD R or RX series and later or NVIDIA Series 700 and later
• Graphics (Mac): Graphics card with Metal support
• Graphics (GPU memory): 4 GB or higher for 4k displays
• OS compatible audio hardware
• ASIO-compatible audio hardware is recommended for low-latency performance
• An internet connection is required for activation, account setup and personal/product registration, download is required for the installation

Note: This software version does not support 32-bit plug-ins. VST 2 plug-ins only run in Rosetta 2 mode on Apple silicon-based Mac computers. Cubase does not support VST 2 when running natively on Apple silicon Macs.