Steinberg Cubase Pro 13 Music and Audio Postproduction Software (Download)

The Range tool is one of the most powerful tools in Cubase and it’s now available in the Key Editor as well as the Drum Editor.

Edit multiple parts from within the Key Editor and Drum Editor, switch between tracks with new Visibility tab and maintain an overview with the new Track display.

The new channel tab in the Project window gives you direct access to your mix, without leaving the arrangement. The new design means you can intuitively find what you need, letting you mix on the go in a compact, per channel view.

Vocal processing is an art of its own, taking a lot of expertise and experience to master the different processing steps. The VocalChain plug-in provides dedicated modules for each step, helping to turn your recordings into professional-sounding vocal tracks.

The new chord pads make it easy to find creative chord progressions. New presets give you excellent starting points and enhanced functions make it even simpler to create unique music.

Two new equalizers, the EQ-P1A and the EQ-M5, add a classy sound to your productions.

The new VoxComp is a compressor specifically designed for vocals, gently taming your recordings without compromising clarity, transients, or expression.

Iconica Sketch allows everyone from beginners to professional composers to create full orchestral scores of the highest quality with 140 articulations for 34 instruments in a compact 5GB library.

The Sampler Track is even more creative, thanks to stunning new Spectral Warp modes for extreme manipulation and powerful envelope creation.

Black Valve is a classic tube compressor with lots of warmth and character. Its sonic detail makes this tribute to one of the most iconic studio processors really stand out.

Create classic robotic vocals, or add analog flavor to your instruments with the legendary Steinberg Vocoder. Use up to 24 filter bands, side-chain input, and enjoy in-depth control over the sound.

Be inspired by five exclusive new sample packs by Grammy-winning producer Beat Butcha, creative mastermind Sharooz, and acclaimed sample boutiques 91Vocals and Touch Loops.

Step and MIDI Input:

• The Step and MIDI Input features are now even more powerful. Modify note lengths on the fly, and add voices on top with the new polyphonic note input feature.

Key Editor

• MIDI CCs can now be recorded in simplified ramps to make it quicker and easier for editing the controller events afterwards.

Track Versions on Video

• Working with new video edits is now more convenient with new Track Versions for the Video Track.

Video

• Export a new soundtrack directly into the original MP4 video file without time-consuming video rerendering.

Start Modes

• Do you want to start from the cycle marker, the last position, or your selection? Configure where playback starts to precisely match your workflow.

Transport Bar

• Easily adjust the project tempo to the beat with the new Tap Tempo feature on the Transport Bar.

Channel Configuraton

• Change the channel type from mono to stereo or vice versa with just one click.

Vertical Zoom

• Zoom in and out vertically with the mouse wheel by pressing CMD+Shift, and decide whether you want to zoom to transport or selection.

Key Commands

• The new Key Command dialog makes managing your shortcuts quick and easy. Find commands easier with the dynamic filter and try new macros on the fly.
• Cubase 13 introduces many new commands that will make your life easier. These include rename selected events, add marker on active marker track, and move range to next hit point.

Import Tracks from Project

• There are several new options that give you more flexibility and control when importing tracks, events, and time ranges.

MIDI Plug-Ins

• MIDI plug-ins have had a design overhaul with a fresh new look.

MIDI 2.0

• With support for high-resolution velocity, CC, aftertouch, pitch bend, and poly pressure data, Cubase 13 is ready for the widespread adoption of MIDI 2.0.

Routing

• You can now set instrument tracks, racks, and sampler return channels as inputs for audio tracks and FX and group channels.

Demo Projects

• Explore three new excellent showcase demo projects including productions by Austin Hull and Azodi.

Window Management

• Cubase now features Windows-compliant multiwindow handling.

Video Engine

• The Windows video engine has been improved, including GPU hardware decoding for H264 and better overall performance.

Control Room

• Control Room is a unique recording and monitoring environment, which seamlessly integrates performer mixes and monitoring setups into your recording and mixing workflow. Cubase allows you to create and manage up to four unique studio mixes to feed performers with their own tailored mix, use the integrated talkback function and manage feeds from external audio sources.

Comping

• Create the perfect version of a recording from multiple takes. Few performers are skilled enough to always get it right the first time in the recording environment, so comping is a vital part of the process. When recording several takes in a loop, lanes are created instantly for each track being recorded. From here, it is very simple to create the perfect version. Simply swipe across the best parts and a master take containing all selected parts will be created automatically. In addition, the Comp tool offers extremely useful click-and-drag features for instant results.

Audio Prerecord

• This allows you to record audio during playback or in Stop mode. Never again miss that perfect take, just because you forgot to press record. You can specify how many seconds of incoming audio will be captured in buffer memory.

Retrospective Record

• This feature allows you to capture any MIDI notes that you play in Stop mode, or during playback, and turn them into a MIDI part. Retrospective Record means you never lose any ideas.

Punch In/Punch Out

• These are a pair of markers which determine the record start (punch in) and record stop (punch out) positions.

Metronome Click (Advanced)

• The Click Pattern Editor allows you to compose custom metronome patterns with up to four different accent levels, and to assign several different patterns to the Signature Track, making it easy for the click to follow any time signature change. You can select one of the many preinstalled click sounds or load your own, ensuring the metronome is always helping you to keep perfectly in time.

Marker Track

• Add and edit markers that will help you to quickly locate certain positions in your project.

Pre-Roll / Post-Roll

• This allows the project cursor to roll back by a specified time value before playback starts. When the cursor reaches the left locator, recording is automatically activated. When the cursor reaches the right locator, recording is deactivated, but playback continues for the specified post-roll value before stopping.

Rerecording

• In this mode recording is reinitiated, the events are removed, and recording restarts from the same position.

Pool

• Every time you record on an audio track, a file is created on your hard disk. A reference to this file (a clip) is added to the Pool. The Pool displays folders and their contents in a similar way to Windows Explorer / macOS Finder, allowing you to intuitively perform operations that affect files on disk and only affect clips.

Key Editor

• The Key Editor is a very powerful yet transparent facility, which opens up virtually limitless possibilities for songwriters and composers. This is where melodies, chords, arrangements, and performances take shape, and where ideas are sketched out and developed to their full potential. Based on more than three decades of experience, the Key Editor features an ultra-intuitive user interface and extremely accurate tools.

Drum Editor

• This is a formidable tool for constructing and reworking beats, rhythms, and grooves, with a plethora of features to help you compose the perfect rhythm for your song or production.

Global Tracks

• With Global Tracks in the Key Editor, you stay in sync even better, and you don’t have to jump between the different windows. Just view all Global Tracks such as signature track, video track, or marker track in the Key Editor to keep your compositions moving along quickly and creatively.

Logical Editor

• This is a key feature that combines filter conditions with actions to create complex procedures. For example, for special track type operations on identically named tracks. You can use its functions to delete all muted MIDI parts, toggle the open state of all folder tracks in your project, in addition to many other things. Save considerable time by avoiding the need to make repeated key strokes and mouse clicks to perform these kinds of operation.

MPE Support

• MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) is supported in Nuendo. The most common MPE controllers are automatically detected and set up with convenient assignments to any kind of instrument parameter. A library of exclusively designed MPE-ready presets for HALion Sonic SE is included.

Chord Editor

• Here you can define, change, and add new chord events.

Chord Editing Section

• The Chord Editing Section allows you to insert and edit chords directly in the Key Editor.

List Editor

• This advanced MIDI editing tool gives you fast access to every single aspect of a MIDI note, which can be a huge timesaver in complex projects.

Drum Maps

• Different MIDI drum instruments often use different key assignments, which can be troublesome if you have created a drum pattern using one MIDI device and then want to play it on another. The Drum Maps feature helps you to solve this problem by simplifying several other aspects of MIDI drum kits, such as using drum sounds from different instruments in the same kit.

In-Place Editing

• Edit MIDI notes and controllers directly in the Project window. This is a helpful tool for quickly and efficiently editing in context with other tracks. Expanding the MIDI track shows a miniature Key Editor. And when you select a MIDI note, the info lines in the Project window and Key Editor show the same information about the note. You can perform the same editing here as in the Key Editor.

Quick Controls

• This is where your most important parameters are gathered in one place, saving you from having to move through the various windows and sections relating to your track.

Tempo Detection Panel

• This panel allows you to analyze the tempo of audio events or MIDI parts.

VariAudio 3

• VariAudio offers fully integrated vocal editing and pitch changes for individual notes in monophonic vocal recordings, allowing you to solve intonation and timing problems with just a few clicks. Editing vocal lines in the Sample Editor is as fast and seamless as editing MIDI notes in the Key Editor. Full integration with the Chord Track ensures correct pitch for your harmonies at all times, even letting you harmonize your lead vocals in stunning choral arrangements. Smart Controls significantly speed up your workflow by allowing direct control of all parameters at each segment. You can edit the micropitch level for smooth drifts and transitions, adjust the formant shift for perfect natural tones, drastically transform your recordings with extreme pitch correction, and everything inbetween, like the popular robot voice effect.

Audio Alignment

• This tool allows you to automatically match the timing of audio events that you want to play back simultaneously. For example, you can match the timing of a dialog take or an alternative take to the production sound, or solve phasing problems when using different microphones on the same take. It allows you to match the timing of different instrument or vocal tracks.

SpectraLayers One

• This compact version of the acclaimed visual audio editing tool allows you to visualize and accurately clean up your audio. Thanks to the state-of-the-art source separation engine, you can separate the vocal part from any kinds of audio tracks, whether you want to remix your favorite song or create mash-ups.

Direct Offline Processing

• Apply any kind of process offline for single or multiple selected events with the feel of real-time effects but without the CPU load. It allows you to keep your MixConsole clean, but at the same time, pave the way for further nondestructive changes. There is a Favorites section where you can store your frequently used effects with predefined parameter settings, either as single processes or as batch processes. You can load FX-chain presets from the MixConsole and from Track Presets within the DOP window, While it is also possible to add a tail to the end of selected events, providing a natural-sounding decay when using effects like delay and reverb.

MixConsole

• Cubase’s MixConsole excels not only in terms of usability, look, and feel, but also sounds like a high-end analog mixing console. Featuring a scalable dedicated full-screen mode, the MixConsole is optimized for mouse-free operation—virtually all channel elements are accessible via the computer keyboard and screen reader software for the visually impaired. Featuring View Sets and Channel Zones for the utmost flexibility, one-click direct routing, customizable track icons, track notepad, drag-and-drop support, and plug-in / channel search, it feels like having a state-of-the-art mixing console in your computer, and sounds like it, too.

Channel Strip (Advanced)

• The channel strip modules are the very heart of our exceptional sound. Carefully crafted in close collaboration with seasoned audio engineers, who have many years of experience working with the best hardware mixing consoles, the channel strip modules are integrated into every channel and deliver stunning professional mixer quality, essential for you to turn your music into fantastic productions.

MixConsole History

• Have you ever wanted to compare different mixes with just one mouse click? MixConsole History tracks all changes made in the MixConsole and easily lets you choose from several stages of your mixing process simply by selecting from a list. As well as basic mixer undo/redo, it allows you to experiment freely to choose the mix that suits your project best.

MixConsole Snapshots

• An incredibly versatile tool, the Snapshots facility will fundamentally change and improve the way you mix, allowing you to create alternative mixes for your project and comparing the results within seconds. Each mix can be conveniently saved in a tab directly in the MixConsole and instantly recalled at any time. Notes can be added to each Snapshot, and you can recall the EQ settings, or even the settings of an individual track.

Easy Side-Chaining

• This commonly-used technique is very popular in contemporary music production and has a wide range of creative applications, from creating the well-known bass-pumping effect or making space for the kick drum in your mix, to many other sonic effects. It is also a very helpful tool for sound designers to use a sound source to modulate the behavior of a totally different sound, creating interesting ambiences or otherworldly effects. Cubase Pro’s straightforward side-chain setup lets you create the desired routing with just a few clicks. Activate side-chaining in your FX plug-in, select the source from the track list, and it is ready to go.

SuperVision

• A fully customizable multimeter audio analyzer for professional productions, SuperVision lets you choose from several different modules for level, spectral, phase, and waveform analysis, and create your own custom layout with up to nine module slots, to give you a supremely accurate visual picture of your sound.

Spectral Comparison EQ

• Clean up overlapping frequencies with the comparison mode in the Channel EQ. Create room for each instrument by comparing and editing the spectral curves from two different tracks within one EQ display.

Groove Agent SE

• Possibly the most comprehensive drum production software instrument ever produced, Groove Agent features a huge library of stunning samples, grooves, and patterns, as well as a full virtual mixer and FX suite for even more creative options. Groove Agent SE features an exceptionally powerful beat production toolkit, ready to help you create the best beats, whatever genre you’re working in. Produce floor-shaking sounds and dancefloor-filling grooves with an array of incredible sample manipulation tools, FX, slice editors and much more. Thanks to its deep integration, you will be able to see the instruments mapped automatically as drum maps into the Drum Editor and Beat Designer.

Halion Sonic 7

• With a massive sample content library in combination with powerful synthesizer engines and effects, HALion Sonic is a versatile sound production tool. Developed for both studio and stage, it is equipped with an easy-to-use interface, intuitive workflow, and an extremely stable audio engine, meaning you can focus solely on being creative.

Retrologue 2

• This flexible, intuitive instrument emulates the warmth and fatness of classic analog synthesizers. Three virtual analog oscillators, exceptional filters, adaptable arpeggiator, powerful modulation system, and FX rack, all help to produce a wealth of rich inspiring sounds.

Sampler Track 2

• Take any piece of audio and use it to create a Sampler Track. You can then play the sample chromatically and manipulate it with the onboard filters, controls, and two LFOs, experimenting to come up with new and innovative ideas. Slicing mode chops up your loops, so they’re ready to play. And for the 808 lovers, there’s the mono legato glide.

Verve

• A felt piano that is so beautiful and warm, so dreamy and melancholic, and 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-heard-before sounds for your compositions. Verve is not just a piano, it is sonic emotion and story.

Padshop 2

• This granular synth is perfect for high-tension atmospheres and unusual effects, thanks to having two independent layers, which generate up to eight different grain streams. It features a comprehensive edit section, an arpeggiator, and built-in modulation and delay effects. The spectral oscillator opens the door to previously unheard soundscapes and lets you turn your own samples into fascinating sonic sculptures.

Flux

• Flux is a wavetable synth that combines HALion’s synthesis with two main wavetable oscillators, a classic sub oscillator, and a flexible noise generator. With a wide variety of options and filters, you can create your own sweeping sounds quickly and easily.

Trip

• Trip is a virtual analog synth that comes with three oscillators, a sub oscillator, a ring modulator, and a noise generator. Accompanied by a flexible filter section, integrated arpeggiator, and step sequencer, it delivers a very flexible sound architecture while still being easy to use.

Hard Knocks

• Grammy-winner Beat Butcha has produced a sizzling pack of hip-hop heat.

Noir

• Hollywood sound designer Robert Dudzik has produced the Noir library for cinematic trailers.

Nightcall Synthwave

• Black Octopus Sound have produced this ’80s synthwave sample pack.

Dancefloor Tech House

• Black Octopus Sound have produced this dancefloor tech house sample pack.

Lofi Dreams

• Black Octopus Sound have produced this lo-fi hip-hop sample pack.

Bloom

• Black Octopus Sound have produced this vocals sample pack.

Analog Techno

• Berlin-based Florian Meindl has produced the deep grooving analog techno library with his modular synthesizer setup.

Blockbuster

• Produced by Nashville-based producer Allen Morgan, the Blockbuster library is the perfect inspiration for electronic music film trailers.

Caleidoscope

• Caleidoscope is a dedicated sample library for the Sampler Track, with hundreds of samples and presets to get you started immediately.

EDM Toolbox

• The EDM Toolbox comes with 30 new construction kits, ready to open up new creative avenues and fuel your next production. Construction kits are groups of 25 to 30 MIDI loops routed to predefined instruments (including mix settings) to deliver immediate inspiration.

Mystic Spaces

• Mystic Spaces is a collection of extraordinary experimental sounds produced by musician, sound designer, and instrument builder Ferdinand Försch.

Raw Ambience

• Drum and bass duo Rawtekk have produced Raw Ambience, a highly aesthetic sound library perfect for electronica, ambient, and dubstep.

Soul Assembly

• Soul Assembly is a collection from Soul Surplus, with a vibe perfect for the foundations of new creations.

The Hip-Hop Vault

• The Beat Butcha, whose production credits include Jay-Z, Beyonce, Mobb Deep, and many others, has recorded The Hip-Hop Vault with great-sounding drums and unique loops.

Production Grooves

• Production Grooves feeds Groove Agent with over 400 drum loops and presets for all contemporary styles of music. Whether you need basic drum accompaniment for a songwriting session, epic electronica or serious rock beats, Production Grooves has the answer.

Production Presets

• Production Presets are there to inspire when needed and to help you finish your mix. Stunning new FX-chain presets for all kinds of instrument and vocal tracks will lend a fresh twist to all your productions, while new mastering-track presets are designed for different types of production, ready to be used on the master bus or group channels to help you give your tracks a truly professional sound.

Allen Morgan Signature Drums

• Groove Agent SE features high-quality percussive sounds in 30 drum kits alongside 150 intricately grooving MIDI loop patterns. All Beat Designer patterns were produced by Allen Morgan, whose artist credits include Taylor Swift, Nine Inch Nails, and many more.

Allen Morgan Rock-Pop Toolbox

• Allen Morgan Rock-Pop Toolbox includes 30 construction kits, each with 25 to 30 audio and MIDI loops for contemporary music productions.

Frequency EQ 2

• Frequency provides eight bands, each of which can be individually set to dynamic mode for a more dynamic mix. You’ll also find mid/side channel support and Linear Phase mode for each band, Auto Listen to hear the adjustments you have made, Spectrum Display, and even a musical keyboard to help you find the right tone.

DJ EQ

• Especially created to bring the atmosphere of a live performance into your studio, DJ EQ is an easy-to-use three-band equalizer with the kill switches that you find on professional DJ mixers

Standard Channel EQ

• Also available as channel strip module, Standard Channel EQ is a full four-band parametric control with variable bandwidth and shelving modes.

Studio EQ

• A powerful and versatile equalizer, which offers full four-band parametric control with variable response curves and shelving modes, and analog-style peak filters. It is also available as channel-strip module.

GEQ 30

• GEQ 30 features 30 bands, with drawing of EQ curves, an invert parameter, and seven different response types. It features a global Range control for overall EQ amount.

GEQ 10

• GEQ 10 features 10 bands with drawing of EQ curves, an invert parameter, and seven different response types. It features a global range control for overall EQ amount.

Voxengo CurveEQ

• An extremely versatile 64-band spline EQ with linear and minimum-phase modes, plus a spectrum analyzer for comparison and matching.

EQ-M5

• The EQ-M5 adds a classy sound to your productions.

EQ-P1A

• The EQ-P1A adds a classy sound to your productions.

Multiband Compressor

• Multiband Compressor features four independent bands with three crossover frequencies. Each band has its own independent compressor with Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release, and Makeup Gain controls.

Vintage Compressor

• Modeled on one of the most sought-after vintage compressors, Vintage Compressor is extremely effective and easy to use. It is also available as channel strip module.

Squasher

• The dynamic Squasher combines up and down compression for up to three bands. Use it to help your lead sounds cut through the mix, tame aggressive bass lines, or enhance subtle, spacey reverberation.

Multiband Envelope Shaper

• A great tool to bring out the detail in a drum mix or perform mastering tasks and creative sound (re-)shaping. It splits the incoming audio into a maximum of four frequency bands and allows you to freely alter the attack and release characteristic of each one.

Maximizer

• A hard limiter/loudness enhancer for the master channel that features soft clipping and automatic attack/release, available as a channel strip module.

Tube Compressor

• This warm compressor precisely shapes and pleasingly colors the dynamics of your signals—exactly as you would expect from a high-quality tube compressor. It is available as a channel-strip module.

DeEsser

• The DeEsser reduces excessive sibilance primarily for voice recordings, sensitively tuned to the frequencies produced by the s-sound.

Limiter

• This straightforward low-distortion limiter with autorelease puts a hard ceiling on any signal and is suitable for the master stage. It is also available as channel-strip module.

Arpache 5

• An arpeggiator, which accepts a chord as input and plays back each note in the chord separately, with the playback order and speed set by the user.

Arpache SX

• An advanced versatile arpeggiator, capable of creating anything from traditional arpeggios to complex, sequencerlike patterns.

Auto LFO

• This effect works like an LFO in a synthesizer, allowing you to send out continuously changing MIDI controller messages. A typical use for it is automatic MIDI panning, but any MIDI continuous controller event type can be chosen.

Beat Designer

• Beat Designer is a MIDI pattern sequencer that allows you to create your own drum parts or patterns for a project.

Chorder

• Chorder is a MIDI chord processor, which allows you to assign complete chords to single keys in a multitude of variations. These can then be played back live or using recorded notes on a MIDI track.

Compressor

• This MIDI compressor is used for evening out or expanding differences in velocity.

Context Gate

• Context Gate allows for selective triggering/filtering of MIDI data. This effect features two modes: in Poly Mode, the Context Gate recognizes certain chords that are played; and in Mono Mode, only certain MIDI notes are let through.

Density

• This generic control panel affects the density of the notes being played from or through the track. If it is set to 100%, notes are not affected. Density settings below 100 % randomly filter out or mute notes. Settings above 100 % randomly add notes that were played before.

MIDI Control

• This generic control panel allows you to select up to eight different MIDI controller types and set values for them. You can then use the plug-in as a control panel to adjust the sound of a MIDI instrument from within the host application.

MIDI Echo

• An advanced MIDI Echo, which generates additional echoing notes based on the MIDI notes it receives. It creates effects similar to a digital delay, but also features MIDI pitch shifting and much more.

MIDI Modifiers

• This plug-in is essentially a duplicate of the MIDI Modifiers section in the Inspector. This can be useful, for example, if you need extra random or range settings. It allows you to transpose each incoming MIDI note, so that it fits within a selected musical scale.

MIDI Monitor

• This effect monitors incoming MIDI events.

Micro Tuner

• Micro Tuner lets you set up a different microtuning scheme for the MIDI instrument by detuning each key.

Transformer

• The Transformer is a real-time version of the Logical Editor. With this you can perform very powerful MIDI processing on the fly, without affecting the MIDI events on the track.

Step Designer

• Step Designer is a MIDI pattern sequencer that sends out MIDI notes and additional controller data, according to the defined pattern. It does not make use of incoming MIDI, other than automation data (such as recorded pattern changes).

Quantizer

• This effect allows you to apply quantizing in real time, making it easier to try out different settings when creating grooves and rhythms

Note to CC

• This effect generates a MIDI continuous controller (CC) event for each incoming MIDI note. The value of the controller event corresponds to the velocity of the MIDI note, which is then used to control the selected MIDI controller (by default CC 7, Main Volume). For each note end, another controller event with the value 0 is sent. The incoming MIDI notes pass through the effect unaffected.

VST Connect SE 5

• VST Connect is a complete remote recording solution that lets you collaborate with any musician with an Internet connection and a computer, anywhere on the planet. Data encryption, multitrack recording, live video chat, audio stream protection, and MIDI support make geographical distance irrelevant to studio workflows.

Video Import

• Compatible video files can be imported into a project, creating a video track with a video event. 

Video Export

• Render videos as MP4s with H.264 video compression and 16-bit audio in 44.1 and 48 kHz. Export the whole video (including audio) or just footage within the locator range.

Video Player

• The Video Player window provides different size options for video playback on your computer screen (the larger the size of the window and the higher the resolution of your video, the greater the processor load).

Virtual Reality Production Suite

• Cubase’s VR production suite includes a number of plug-ins and integrated functions such as a fully integrated Binauralizer and a VR panning device (included in the VST Multipanner), an HMD connector for head tracking and a third-order Ambisonics bus.

Video Track

• The Video Track is used to play back video events.

Extract Audio from Video

• When video is imported, the audio stream can be extracted. It is added to the project as a new audio track and can be edited like all other audio material.

Support for MOV, MPEG-4 and AVI

• Cubase supports MOV, MPEG-4, and AVI video formats.

Video Follows Edit Mode

• The Video Follows Edit Mode allows you to edit audio while the video display provides continuous visual feedback. If you activate this in the Transport menu, the project cursor and video automatically follow every edit you make, allowing you to instantly see where in the video your edit is taking place. If the project is in stop mode, the project cursor is only displayed in the timeline.