Steinberg Cubase PRO 8

Ideal for: Professional producers, film composers, recording engineers

The new Cubase generation stands for technical innovation and musical inspiration in one unbelievable high-performance yet simple to use production environment. Equipped with the newest audio technology, inspiring music features and loads of Workflow optimizations, the Cubase 8 PRO makes your job in the studio simpler, more efficient and creative.

• Ideal for: Professional producers, film composers, recording engineers
• Record and mix unlimited audio, instrument and MIDI tracks
• 256 physical inputs and outputs

• integrated channel strip
• full drag-and-drop support
• A/B comparison & global bypass
• plug-in search function
• total scalability & full-screen mode
• extended channel visibility management
• Quick Link System & Control Link Groups
• customizable View Sets
• Sidechain Inputs
• New Import tracks from projects
• EBU-compliant loudness metering
• Wave Meters
• VCA faders for complex mixing and automation workflows
• 256 group channels
• Control Room: create monitoring setups and performer mixes
• 5.1 surround support
• MixConvert delivers unmatched downmixing quality
• Powerful automation system with 4 modes, dedicated control panel and Virgin Territories mode

• Upgraded Key and Drum Editor for intuitive note, chord or beat creation and editing
• Professional music notation and score editing and printing feature set
• Enhanced Chord pads: A great way to playfully and creatively compose with chords
• Full instrument expression control on single-note level, plus intuitive handling of articulations and dynamics
• TrackVersions: For creating, renaming and managing parallel variations of tracks

• 73 high-end audio effect plug-ins, including studio-grade EQs and dynamics, a virtual guitar tone suite, high-end reverbs, realtime pitch correction and Voxengo's acclaimed CurveEQ
  Virtual Bass Amp, Quadrafuzz v2, Multiband Expander, Multiband Envelope Shaper effects
• 8 virtual instruments with more than 3400 presets ranging from pure analog synth sounds to atmospheric pads, cutting leads and bone-dry beats and drums. Highlights include Padshop,
  New Retrologue 2, HALion Sonic SE and Groove Agent SE 4.
• 18 MIDI plug-ins including arpeggiators, usable in 4 MIDI plug-in insert slots
  Arpache 5, Arpache SX, Auto LFO, Beat Designer, Chorder, Compressor, Context Gate, Density, MIDI Control, MIDI Echo, MIDI Modifiers, MIDI Monitor, Micro Tuner, Note To CC, Quantizer, StepDesigner, Track Control, Transformer

• Full audio editing toolset with state-of-the-art transient and tempo detection, drum replacement functions and advanced audio quantization
• Realtime time-stretching and pitch-shifting,New zplane Elastique v3 algorithms for high-quality time-stretching and intuitive Time Warp tool
• Lanes and Comping: Advanced tools for recording and assembling perfect takes
• Dedicated punch points which are independent from the locator positions
• Track Edit Groups: multitrack editing with single-click actions
• VariAudio 2.0: MIDI-style note editing of monophonic audio tracks and automatic voicing harmonization

• MediaBay: Organize your files and presets in one central spot and locate your content even faster with the intuitive New MediaBay Racks
• Project Assistant allows for quick startup
• Supports all common audio formats and standards plus FLAC support, direct SoundCloud export, OMF import/export and Fraunhofer MP3 encoding
• Over 5 hours of HD video tutorials available on YouTube
• Professional workflow: offline process history, key command macros, channel batch export
• Track visibility: Shows only the tracks you want to see in the Project window
• Render in-place: Bounce MIDI and audio parts easily
• VST Transit: Cloud collaboration service
• VST Connect SE 3: Unique remote recording plug-in
• Profile Manager: Lets you easily store and recall program settings and preferences