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Cubase 4 - 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.
- 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
New Features
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.
Control Room - The mixer in Cubase 4 has been expanded with a powerful Control Room section. You’re now able to connect multiple sets of control room monitors and external sources (CD, DVD, Tape etc.) directly to your audio hardware and switch between them from a convenient Control Room panel. The Control Room section also offers a talkback channel, a headphone bus, and the ability to create up to four studio mixes (monitor mixes), so each mixer channel now offers a separate studio send section for controlling those mixes.
New Plug-in Set - VST3 - Cubase 4 not only includes a completely new set of superlative audio effect plug-ins, it also marks the next step in VST plug-in technology. VST3 offers major new features both for plug-in developers and users. VST3 plug-ins can adjust their number of audio busses to the channel they're inserted to (mono, stereo, 5.1, etc.). A silence detection function makes sure that a plug-in only processes audio when there's actually a signal present. This helps to reduce overall CPU load. VST3 plug-ins natively support Intel-based Macintosh computers. For developers there are many more features under the hood. In Cubase 4, there are 30 all-new first-class audio and MIDI plug-ins. In addition, some of the previous plug-ins have been reworked and updated for this version, pushing the total number of audio plug-ins to 50. One of the many highlights of this new plug-in set is a powerful new Equalizer, which is also available within the new channel EQ. Other highlights include a Vintage Compressor, Studio Chorus, a new Multiband Compressor, a voice-doubler called Cloner, and a great-sounding modeling guitar amplifier with speaker cabinet simulation. A feature not related to VST3 but to the Cubase mixer: effects can now be re-arranged using drag & drop. This works both within a single channel, as well as between channels.
New Virtual Instruments - Cubase 4 adds four new outstanding virtual instruments: HALion One, Prologue, Spector and Mystic.
- HALion One - With HALion One Steinberg adds powerful sample playback synthesis to Cubase 4. Based on Steinberg’s award-winning HALion 3 architecture, HALion One is optimized for use with SoundFrame™. It comes with more than 600 brand-new ready-to-play sounds covering dozens of acoustic and electronic instruments, as well as hundreds of colorful synth timbres. This extremely versatile sound set is optimized for lightning-fast preset switching and low memory consumption. Sound and effect parameters can be tweaked using eight convenient Quick Controls. SoundFrame™ manages all of HALion One’s presets, user presets and track presets. So finding the right sound is equally convenient and fast.
- Sample-based VST instrument
- More than 600 instruments/sounds
- 58 drum kits
- 8 QuickControls
- FX Bypass button
- Variable efficiency to control CPU load
- One MIDI In, stereo audio out – perfect for Instrument Tracks
- Prologue - Prologue is a wonderfully rich-sounding virtual analog synthesizer that will become an indispensable part of your VSTi arsenal. Prologue's textural range includes lush, detailed pads and bright, acerbic leads and everything in between. Prologue’s intuitive user interface provides full editing capabilities with access to its three oscillators, powerful multi-mode filter, four envelopes, two LFOs, a powerful modulation matrix, and onboard effects. And because Prologue is polyphonic with up to 128 voices, you'll (probably) never run out of creative space.
- Virtual analog synthesizer with hybrid analog and digital waveforms
- 3 oscillators
- Multi-mode variable resonance filter
- 4 ADSR envelope generators
- 2 LFOs
- Powerful modulation matrix
- On-board effects (Distortion, Delay, Phaser, Flanger, Chorus)
- Spector - Spector provides exceedingly original yet detailed sounds with its two extremely colorful and versatile spectrum filters, yet also adds the power of up to six oscillators per voice with two different waveforms each. Separate independent spectrum filters process each of the two waveforms, and creating new, unique sounds by simply drawing new filter curves and then shifting or morphing the two filter’s spectrums is pure fun. Spector offers four envelope generators, two LFOs, a powerful modulation matrix and on-board effects.
- Up to 6 oscillators per voice
- 2 variable spectrum filters with morph control
- 4 ADSR envelope generators
- 2 LFOs
- Powerful modulation matrix
- On-board effects (Distortion, Delay, Phaser, Flanger, Chorus)
- Mystic - Mystic’s awesomely versatile yet startlingly original and unique audio characteristics are based on three parallel comb filters with feedback. The sound source is an “impulse sound” based on physical modeling technology. The harmonic spectrum of this sound is based on one of six selectable waveforms and a set of two spectrum filters. The sound can be shaped with a filter (Damping), by adding an offset to the comb filters (Detune), or by adding a noise component (Crackle). The result is an exceedingly inspiring VST synth that rewards the adventurous.
- Impulse oscillator with spectrum filters
- 3 parallel comb filters with feedback
- 4 ADSR envelope generators
- 2 LFOs
- Powerful modulation matrix
- On-board effects (Distortion, Delay, Phaser, Flanger, Chorus)
SoundFrame™ - Universal Sound Manager
SoundFrame™ is a set of features which incorporate a powerful Universal Media Library within Cubase 4. SoundFrame™ combines the new Instrument Tracks, Track Templates, and VST3 categorization functions with a powerful database system known as MediaBay.
What is SoundFrame™?
- SoundFrame™ allows you to manage ANY sound from ANY software or hardware synthesizer under a single, unified user interface (MediaBay)
- SoundFrame™ can help you find any sound, not only by instrument but also by category, type, style, character or other attributes
- SoundFrame™ even comes with more than 1000 ready-toplay sounds, which are also conveniently organized by instrument category, type, and character. These can even be instantly previewed before loading.
- SoundFrame™ can even manage your VST effects plug-in presets as well. These can also be organized and categorized to form one big effects library.
MediaBay – media file management system
To keep up with the ever-growing number of sounds, samples, loops and presets, Cubase 4 is equipped with an immensely powerful media file management system known as MediaBay. MediaBay is the central place for browsing, searching, managing and categorizing any type of media file. This includes audio and MIDI files, instrument and plug-in presets, track presets, video data and even project files.
Powerful search tools and an extremely easy-to-navigate user interface give almost instant access to any sound file anywhere on your system. MediaBay also includes a tag editor to apply your own attributes, while the Scope section gives full preview of your audio, MIDI or Presets - even down to the auditioning of loops in your song tempo.
Track Presets
One of the most powerful new features in Cubase 4 is the Track Presets system – especially when combined with the new MediaBay feature. Track Presets store every aspect of track/channel settings for audio, MIDI, and Instrument tracks. Combinations of tracks can also be saved as Multi-Track Presets. Almost all track and mixer setting are stored including volume and Pan information and all insert effect settings as well as the channel EQ. For instrument tracks, all Instrument/Preset information is stpre with a Track Preset, while for MIDI tracks, the Track Preset includes MIDI Port, Channel and Patch information.
Track Presets can be saved with attributes like Category/Style/Character and so on, opening up a whole new dimension in sound management on your DAW.
Instrument Tracks
Cubase 4 introduces a new track type: the Instrument Track. An Instrument Track provides a fast and convenient way to use virtual instruments. As a quick alternative to the VSTi Rack, Instrument Tracks provide a single MIDI Input and a single stereo Output within a single channel/track. Setting up a VST Instrument and getting ready to play is now just one step away!
Major Score Editor Enhancements
The Score Editor in Cubase 4 has seen a major redesign, including many usability and workflow improvements as well as new features. Composers don’t despair! None of the existing functions have been lost. All functions from previous versions are still available, albeit in different places.
Here’s just a brief overview:
- The Score menu is now slimmer and better organized. Some functions are now available via dedicated context menus and therefore easier to use
- The symbol palettes have their own freely configurable “inspector” which is organized in tabs – similar to the track inspector
- All preferences have been combined into a single “main” score settings dialog
- The Drum settings are now part of the main Drum Map Setup
- Cubase 4 now offers two additional high-quality score fonts: “Jazz” and “Classical”. The original Cubase font is now available as “Legacy” font.
User Interface Redesign
Designed with meticulous attention to detail, Cubase 4 features an extensively redesigned and anhanced user interface. The overall visibility of active items versus inactive items has been drastically enhanced, so although there are now more screen elements in Cubase 4 providing better access to even more features, overall visibility and orientation is now better than ever. Critical areas such as the Mixer and Inspector have received particular attention, with clearer highlighting and better readability of textual information.
The new user interface also introduces a number of new features, inculding a fully customizable Track Inspector. Not only can each item in the Track Inspector be hidden or shown as desired, but the order and visibility of items can be changed and stored individually for each track type.
- The Channel Strip window is also fully customizable, featuringits own setup panel and configuration options for each ndividual section - with full preset management. The new EQ section now offers a larger display area, giving better overview when using the new Channel EQ.
- The Mixer window offers even more flexibility and ergonomics in Cubase 4. View settings can be applied to any number of selected channels, and the view/hide status can be set either individually for a single channel or for several channels simultaneously.
Features
- Basics - Cubase 4 allows you to produce more efficiently and with better ergonomics than ever before. Its tremendous flexibility allows it to adapt perfectly to suit your individual working methods and working environment.
- Audio Recording and Editing - Offering first-rate capabilities for audio recording and editing, Cubase 4 provides top-class studios, music producers and live recording rigs with the state-of-the-art facilities they need to stay ahead.
- MIDI Sequencing - Ergonomic MIDI editors, extensive quantization functions, creative MIDI effects: Cubase 4 offers probably the most impressive MIDI sequencing capabliities available anywhere.
- Music Notation and Score Printing - Including top-class tools for even the most complex compositions, the enhanced Score Editor offers just about any function needed for professional notation editing and printing.
- Mixing - FX returns, group channels, control room and much more - the freely configurable Mixer offers all the functions you need for professional stereo and surround mixes.
- Automation - Mixers, effects, VST instruments – you can automate nearly all parameters in Cubase 4 to create fades, pans, filter sweeps and many more effects.
- Effect Plug-ins - Cubase 4 offers a complete set of brand new first-rate VST3 effect plug-ins for mixing, mastering and creating innovative sound effects.
- VST Instruments - The incredible-sounding yet exceedingly versatile VST instruments included in Cubase 4 right out of the box provide a huge range of top-quality sounds and textures for just about any musical style and genre.
- Media Management - Cubase 4 offers a revolutionary media database system, making management of all types of media on your system easier than ever before and integrating media resources directly within the creative production process.
- Surround - Cubase 4 is a fully surround capable environment with all the functions required for multi-channel audio production, including audio channels and busses with up to six channels, surround panners and downmixing tools as well as support for special Surround plug-ins and encoders.
- Video - With its Video Thumbnail Track and support for a huge range of video formats, Cubase 4 unites video fuinctionality with its peerless composition and production tools to produce an ideal environment for composing movie or TV soundtracks.
- Software/Hardware Integration - Cubase 4 allows the integration and control of external hardware with unprecedented ease. Now you can use external instruments and outboard effect hardware just like plug-ins - with all the benefits that entails.
- Control Room - Control Room is a groundbreaking system that places Cubase at the heart of studio monitoring and recording workflows, including four Studio Sends, four customizable monitoring setups, external inouts, headphone bus, talkback and much more.
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.
