Steinberg CUBASE Essential 5

Steinberg Cubase Essential 5: With an easy, intuitive approach to composing, recording, editing and mixing, Cubase Essential 5 is your gateway to the world of Cubase. Cubase Essential 5 shines with the same user interface and award-winning audio engine as the Steinberg Cubase 5 advanced music production system used by countless professionals around the globe. So whether you’re composing songs at home, recording your band in the rehearsal room or remixing the latest hip-hop and dance tracks on a laptop while on the move: Cubase Essential 5 combines premium virtual instruments, outstanding audio and MIDI VST effects with a vast range of proven editing and sequencing tools while being extremely easy to use.

Features

Cubase Essential 5 adds even more creative possibilities and new technologies to the entry-level version of the Cubase family, perfect for musicians and home studios. The latest incarnation of Cubase Essential includes enhancements like the new PitchCorrect plug-in to automatically correct vocal intonation, Beat Designer to produce beats and rhythms in next to no time, over 700 instruments and sounds to kick-start your projects as well as many other exciting innovations.

On-the-fly Pitch Correction: The PitchCorrect VST3 plug-in brings easy and automatic intonation control and scale correction of vocal and monophonic instrument recordings to Cubase Essential 5.

Featuring numerous enhanced MIDI features, Cubase Essential 5 now includes MIDI loop support, redesigned MIDI effect plug-ins and improved MIDI automation.

Cubase Essential 5 also comes with a range of additional new ways of working faster, with added performance and redesigned and enhanced features.

Cubase Essential 5 comes with a new exceptional polyphonic subtractive synthesizer, 240 additional premium instrument sounds for HALion ONE and a new autopanning effect.

Technical Data

Minimum System Requirements

Mac

Supported operating systems: Mac OS X 10.5.5 and 10.6

PowerPC G5 (Intel Core Duo CPU recommended)

1024 MB RAM

Display resolution 1280 x 800 recommended

CoreAudio compatible audio hardware

DVD-ROM drive with dual-layer support

4 GB of free HD space

USB component port for USB-eLicenser (copy protection)

Internet connection required for license activation

PC

Supported operating systems: Windows XP SP2 (32-bit), Windows Vista and Windows 7

2 GHz CPU (dual core CPU recommended)

1024 MB RAM

Display resolution 1280 x 800 pixels recommended

Windows DirectX compatible audio hardware (ASIO compatible audio hardware recommended for low-latency performance)

DVD-ROM drive with dual-layer support

4 GB of free HD space

USB component port for USB-eLicenser (copy protection)

Internet connection required for license activation