This product is also available to students and teachers upon verification of academic elegibility.
Cubase Studio 4 superceeds Cubase SL3. Significantly, Cuabse Studio 4 incorporates professional score layout, arranging and printing and also the Yamaha MOTIF-Powered HALion One Virtual Instrument all at an exceptionally low price point.
We are able to offer generous discounts for quantity purchases so please call for current pricing information.
Key features:
Audio + MIDI Recording/Editing/Mixing
New VST3 virtual instruments and effects
SoundFrame? - unique new Sound Management System
Fantastic-sounding 32-bit Audio Engine
Full scoring facilities
Streamlined feature set tailored for project studios, musicians and composers
Outstanding value for money, extraordinary price/performance ratio
Cross platform: Windows and Mac OS X Universal Binary (compatible with PPC- and Intel-based Macintosh computers)
Cubase Studio 4 offers a brand new plug-in set based on the new VST3 standard, as well as two top-quality, outstandingly versatile software instruments with hundreds of ready-to-play sounds. The unique SoundFrame system is a groundbreaking new technology with powerful new features such as Track Presets, Instrument Tracks and the new MediaBay database, which will revolutionise the way you manage and access your media files and presets, bringing them directly into the creative composition process.
Students will benefit from the new professional scoring and notation printing feature set, while the range of interface and workflow enhancements make working with Cubase Studio 4 fast, efficient and, above all, extraordinarily creative.
Complete Feature List:
Mixing
- Extended Mixer with configurable views for inserts, sends, EQ and metering.
- Drag & Drop copying and swapping of insert plug-ins
- Re-organized mixer control strip
- "Command Target" controls in mixer control strip
- Improved Show/Hide management for mixer channels
- Improved channel selection and visibility
- Inserts show preset names for plug-ins
- User-configurable channel strip window for audio and instrument tracks, including preset management
- User-configurable track inspector with preset management
- Dynamic output configuration for VSTi's
Files and Formats (Import and Export)
- WMA Pro import and export
Audio
- AudioWarp realtime pitch shifting with formant preservation for natural realtime audio transpose
- MPEX3 high-quality time stretching and pitch shifting algorithm for offline processing and editing
MediaBay
- New MediaBay media management system with extensive search, preview and attribute editing functions
- SoundFrame? - Universal Sound Manager (links MediaBay with Track Presets, VST3 Plug-in Presets and built-in synth engine)
- Preview function to play loops in project tempo
- Auto-Preview for Track Presets and VST Presets
Editing
- Combined editing of notes and controllers
- Key Editor: New Trim Tool for trimming event start or end points for multiple events
- Improved selection of tool modifiers in editors, controller lanes and automation lanes
- New preference: track selection follows event selection
Plug-ins and Instruments
- New VST3 plug-in set:
- Delay: MonoDelay, StereoDelay, PingPongDelay
- Distortion: ToneBooster, AmpSimulator
- Dynamics: Limiter, Gate, VSTDynamics
- Filter: WahWah
- Modulation: StudioChorus, Flanger, Phaser, Tremolo, Vibrato, AutoPan, Rotary
- Spacial: MonoToStereo, StereoEnhancer
- Reverb: Roomworks, Roomworks SE
- Other: Octaver, Tuner
- 10 Cubase SL plug-ins have also been updated for Cubase Studio 4
- New Virtual Instrument: Prologue - professional analogue modeling synthesizer
- New Virtual Instrument: HALion One - sample playback synthesizer
- More than 600 ready-to-play instrument sounds, drum kits and effects
Project/General
- Instrument Tracks combining MIDI Input and Audio Output for VST instruments into a single track and mixer channel
- Track Presets save entire channels and track parameters without events for convenient sound management
- Integration of VST3 for plug-ins and virtual instruments
- Re-organized Preferences dialog with extended customization features
- Freeze button in Track Controls
- Part/Event names are preserved after bouncing a selection
- Option to use L/R keys to set range or move playhead
- Improved snapping, including option to snap events to the right side
- Option to have track selection follows event selection
- "Snap to Zero-crossing" button in tool bar
- Display time format in time display devices
- Reverse time keyboard input for faster editing
- Scrolling improvements
MIDI & Music
- Score Editor: complete score editing, layout and printing
- Score Editor: New settings dialog with consolidated setup parameters for score layout, staff settings, and more
- Score Editor: New inspector-style symbol pallets for improved layout workflow
- Score Editor: Category system for staff presets linked with SoundFrame
- Score Editor: Two new score fonts: "Jazz" and "Classic"
- Score Editor: Improved Auto-Layout function
- Score Editor: Function to import lyrics from MIDI file
- Toggle selection status with control modifier
Various
- Redesigned User Interface with new look & feel
- Mac OSX Intel support (Universal Binary)
- Complete printed operations manual and plug-in reference
- New set of key commands:
- Constrain delay compensation on/off
- Switch automation modes
- Deactivate all solo
- Unmute all
- Grid and snap modes
- Lane display type
- Enable/disable track
- Lock/unlock track
- Open channel settings window for selected track
- Switching of ruler modes
- Show sends
- Inserts
- EQ
- FX
- Etc. for selected track
- Jump to cycle marker
- Zoom cycle marker
- Add cycle marker
- Toggle auto-monitoring
- Toggle mixer views
- Open MediaBay
- Open SoundFrame Browser
- Open Loop Browser
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