Cubase Essential 5 – Personal Music Production System - With an easy, intuitive approach to composing, recording, editing and mixing, Cubase Essential 5 is your gateway to the world of Cubase.

Extended information

Cubase Essential 5 shines with the same user interface and award-winning audio engine as the Steinberg Cubase 5 advanced music production system used by countless professionals around the globe. So whether you’re composing songs at home, recording your band in the rehearsal room or remixing the latest hip-hop and dance tracks on a laptop while on the move: Cubase Essential 5 combines premium virtual instruments, outstanding audio and MIDI VST effects with a vast range of proven editing and sequencing tools while being extremely easy to use.

- New Features in Cubase Essential 5
Cubase Essential 5 adds even more creative possibilities and new technologies to the entry-level version of the Cubase family, perfect for musicians and home studios. The latest incarnation of Cubase Essential includes enhancements like the new PitchCorrect plug-in to automatically correct vocal intonation, Beat Designer to produce beats and rhythms in next to no time, over 700 instruments and sounds to kick-start your projects as well as many other exciting innovations.

* On-the-fly Pitch Correction
The new PitchCorrect VST3 plug-in brings easy and automatic intonation control and scale correction of vocal and monophonic instrument recordings to Cubase Essential 5.

* Designer Beats and Grooves
Beat Designer is the hot new beat construction plug-in that really allows getting hands-on with beats for step programming and designing drum patterns in an easy yet powerful way!

* More Sounds for More Music
Cubase Essential 5 comes with a new exceptional polyphonic subtractive synthesizer, 240 additional premium instrument sounds for HALion ONE and a new autopanning effect.

* Enhanced MIDI
Featuring numerous enhanced MIDI features, Cubase Essential 5 now includes MIDI loop support, redesigned MIDI effect plug-ins and improved MIDI automation.

* Smoother Workflow
Cubase Essential 5 also comes with a range of additional new ways of working faster, with added performance and redesigned and enhanced features.

Technical specifications

MAC:
* Mac OS X 10.5.5
* PowerPC G5 (Intel Core Duo CPU recommended)
* 1024 MB RAM
* Display resolution 1024 x 800 recommended
* CoreAudio compatible audio hardware
* DVD-ROM drive with dual-layer support
* 4 GB of free HD space
* USB component port for USB-eLicenser (copy protection)
* Internet connection required for license activation

PC:
* Windows XP or Windows Vista
* 2 GHz CPU (dual core CPU recommended)
* 1024 MB RAM
* Display resolution 1024 x 800 pixels recommended
* Windows DirectX compatible audio hardware (ASIO compatible audio hardware recommended for low-latency performance)
* DVD-ROM drive with dual-layer support
* 4 GB of free HD space
* USB component port for USB-eLicenser (copy protection)
* Internet connection required for license activation