Steinberg Cubase Pro 12 - Electronic Delivery

Steinberg Cubase Pro 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 Pro 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 Pro 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.

VARIAUDIO WITH SCALE ASSISTANT Whether you want to get creative with melodies or correct the pitch of your recordings, the Scale Assistant in VariAudio brings two powerful tools together to make pitch editing a breeze. Just set the scale and follow the Chord Track or let the Scale Assistant suggest the scale, based on your recorded notes. You can then instantly quantize the pitch of your recording or snap the VariAudio pitch editing to the scale. Pitch editing has never been so easy!

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.

FX MODULATOR

You can really breathe life into your sounds with the advanced, multi-effect modulation of FX Modulator. From classic ducking effects to exciting rhythmic patterns, it offers brand new ways to get creative. Create custom shaped LFOs and modulate up to six integrated effect modules at once. The LFO can also be triggered via MIDI or use one or more side-chain inputs, letting the LFO follow the incoming signals. And if you don’t want to create your own styles, you will find inspiration in many carefully designed presets.

AUDIOWARP IMPROVEMENTS

You naturally want to create perfect recordings… but we are all human! The Free Warp tool lets you now edit your audio recordings and correct timings directly in the Project window. You can adjust multiple tracks at once in Group Editing, while the new phase-coherent AudioWarp mode helps you avoid phase issues. We have improved the editing workflow in the Sample Editor with new grid options and zoom modes, and streamlined the user interfaces - all helping you to get closer to perfection.

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)!

RAISER

Raiser is the latest of Cubase’s dynamic processing tools and we think it might quickly move to the top of your signal chain. Its ultra-fast attack times let you dramatically increase the loudness of your projects, without compromising on transients or transparency. It excels in aggressive limiting for drums and guitars, as well as in smooth processing of vocals and even full mixes. Raiser is a versatile powerhouse that will add the final touch to your mix.

LOGICAL EDITOR IMPROVEMENTS

Thanks to Cubase’s powerful logical functions, you can customize and build your own workflows in many ways. We have improved the project and MIDI logical editors, the input transformer and the transformer MIDI plug-in with new user interfaces, new preset browsers, and many new functions and filters. We have also created a full set of new presets to get the most from the new features and inspire you to customize your own with ease.

VERVE – A SONIC MASTERPIECE

A felt piano that is so beautiful and warm, so dreamy and melancholic, so detailed and pure. Recorded in the Yamaha Studios in LA, Verve was created to create a sonic masterpiece that allows you to tell a new story with every single note you play. You can give Verve a new tone by layering it with additional textures, creating never before heard sounds for your compositions. Verve is not just a piano; it is sonic emotions and stories.

PRO IMPROVEMENTS

For audio professionals, Steinberg have added several new features from our advanced postproduction system Nuendo. These include the option to add a second video track, a fourth MixConsole, and to export multiple selected events at once. Thanks, Nuendo!

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.