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

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.

Tempo Track

• With the Tempo Track, you can control the speed at which the project is played.

Expression Maps

• Expression Maps allow you to audition a composition, including musical articulations. Within these maps, you can specify the sound mapping and characteristics for all your musical expressions.

Signature Track

• The Signature Track works in a similar way to the Tempo Track, but you have to stick to the bars of the project and you will not be able to add a different time signature anywhere other than on the first beat of a bar.

TrackVersions

• This flexible feature helps to significantly speed up your workflow by allowing you to create, rename, and manage parallel versions of the same audio, MIDI, instrument, chord, tempo, and signature track (or tracks), using them to compare takes or create alternative versions of your recordings, while keeping all track settings. It interfaces perfectly with existing track handling features like lanes.

Global Transpose Track

• Here you can transpose either the entire project or sections of it, which is very useful if you want to create harmonic variations.

MusicXML Import/Export

• Import and export MusicXML files to transfer musical scores to and from applications that support this file format. (Please note that there are some restrictions regarding the parameters supported by Cubase and Nuendo).

Hermode Tuning

• Hermode Tuning dynamically retunes the notes you play, creating clear frequencies for every (for example) fifth and third interval. Retuning only affects individual notes, and it maintains the pitch relationship between keys and notes. The retuning is a continuous process and also takes the musical context into account.

Time Warp

• With Time Warp, you can move the musical positions of events or parts to specific time positions. You can adjust the positions of musical time-based material, or you can match material with a musical time base to music with a linear time base.

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.

Audio Warp Quantize

• Warp-quantize multiple audio tracks at once using the convenient Quantize panel. By creating warp markers straight from hitpoints, single audio loops or the entire arrangement can be nondestructively quantized with a single mouse click—just like MIDI parts. Importantly, because the audio events are warped, rather than sliced, they automatically follow any tempo or pitch changes of your project, while remaining uncluttered for easy arrangement.

Audio Parts

• Audio Parts are containers for audio events. If you want to treat several audio events as one unit in the Project window, you can convert them to a part.

Group Editing

• This is a simple and efficient time-saving tool, which ties together tracks that belong together. For example, when recording many tracks from different microphones or distances at the same time, Group Editing allows these tracks to all be edited at once.

Hitpoint Detection

• Hitpoints mark musically relevant positions in audio files. When activating this function, the transient positions will be detected and hitpoints will be created automatically by analyzing onsets and melodic changes within the audio.

Render in Place

• Bounce MIDI and audio parts easily, defining exactly what processes to include and rendering track effects in the newly created events. When rendering in place, a new audio track is created with all effects settings copied over from the original source track, plus the rendered audio, including intact event boundaries.

Sample Editor

• Edit your audio with almost limitless creative freedom in the Sample Editor. A comprehensive set of tools offering a huge range of functions—everything from common editing tasks to sample-level adjustments. It is a complete production environment with fast, intuitive, and outstanding quality audio tools, which allow you to manipulate your recordings in almost any way imaginable.

Time Stretch

• This function allows you to change the length and tempo of the selected audio without affecting the pitch.

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