Advanced Music Production System

Cubase 4 represents the cutting edge in digital audio workstations. Designed for professionals from the ground up, Cubase converges extraordinary sound quality, intuitive handling and a vast range of highly advanced audio and MIDI tools for composition, recording, editing and mixing.

Cubase 4 comes with a brand-new VST3 plug-in set and four new integrated software instruments with more than 1000 sounds. The revolutionary SoundFrame™ is a powerful combination of Track Presets, Instrument Tracks, and MediaBay database, to help organize all your sounds from every instrument - both software VSTi and hardware. Cubase 4's mixer now offers a flexible Control Room section and up to four independent studio mixes. Composers and musicians benefit from the enhanced score editor while the redesigned user interface with many new features speeds up workflow and boosts creativity to new levels.

Cubase 4.1 additionally offers significant features such as Sidechaining for VST3 Plug-ins, free routing, a Global Transpose Track, Music XML support and much more.

Features

• State-of-the-art Audio + MIDI Recording/Editing/Mixing
• Complete new set of VST3 virtual instruments and effects
• Real multi-channel 5.1 surround sound
• SoundFrame™ - Universal Sound Manager
• Control Room integration within your outboard studio environment
• Seamless integration of external audio and MIDI hardware
• Pristine 32-bit floating point audio engine
• Professional music notation and score printing
• Cross-Platform: Windows and Mac OS X Universal Binary

Minimum System Requirements

The minimum system requirements state the minimal specification your computer must have to be able to use the software. A more powerful system may be required for certain tasks or larger projects. You can find more information about computer system specification and setup here.

• Mac
  • Mac OS X Version 10.4
  • Power Mac G4 1 GHz or Core Solo 1.5 GHz
  • 512 MB RAM
  • Display Resolution 1024x768 pixels
  • DVD drive required for installation
  • CoreAudio compatible audio hardware
  • USB port required for Steinberg Key (copy protection device)*
  • Internet connection required for license activation
• PC
  • Windows XP Home or XP Professional (both with Service Pack 1 installed)
  • Pentium/Athlon 1.4 GHz
  • 512 MB RAM
  • Windows DirectX compatible audio hardware (ASIO compatible audio hardware recommended for low latency performance)
  • Display resolution 1024x768
  • DVD-ROM drive required for installation
  • USB port required for Steinberg Key (copy protection device)*
  • Internet connection required for license activation

*The Steinberg Key (USB copy protection device) required to run this product is only available in the full version. Customers who are upgrading or updating from another version or product and who do not own a Steinberg Key must purchase one separately. The same Steinberg Key copy protection device is then used for all Steinberg products that require it.

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