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Cubase Essential 4

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Overview

Your entry-level ticket to the world of Cubase.

Cubase Essential 4 music recording and sequencing software gives you a nice selection of powerful tools for composing, recording, editing, and mixing taken from the full version of Cubase. It also includes the same user interface and award-winning audio engine you'd find in Steinberg's flagship Cubase 4. And that means when it comes to audio quality and intuitive handling, Cubase Essential rivals its bigger brothers. Any way you choose to use it - as a sequencer for your home recording studio, or as a multi-track recorder for the band rehearsal room - you get the real deal at an unbeatable budget price.

New Features
Cubase Essential 4 (formerly known as the Cubase SE product line) sets a new standard for personal music production software by offering you powerful editing tools, a new set of plug-in effects, the HALion One Sample Player instrument, a great-sounding guitar amp, and more than 60 other new features and improvements. With a new Arranger Track, linear and pattern-style arranging is now seamlessly integrated. New AudioWarp realtime time stretching and pitch shifting makes working with loops and tempo-based audio easier than ever. Many more features are listed below.

Features

New features include:

VST3 Plug-In Set (including HALion One Sample Player and Guitar Amp Simulator)
MIDI FIle Playback using HaLion One
Built-in Amp Simulator for instant guitar recording
Limited MediaBay database for sound management
Instrument Track
Track presets
Drag & Drop for Insert FX
Windows and Mac OS X Universal Binary (compatible with PPC- and Intel-based Macintosh computers)
VST Plug-in Bridge (Mac)
Full latency-compensated audio engine with dynamic multiprocessing
Redesigned sample editor
User interface design update
Drum editing enhancements
Apple Remote support
Advanced QuickTime 7 support
Track Freeze function

Other features:

Professional technology (32-bit audio engine, 24-bit/96-kHz recording)
Powerful editors for MIDI and audio processing
Media Bay database for sound management
AudioWarp realtime time stretching/pitch shifting
New Arranger Track
Can handle simultaneous playback of 64 audio tracks, Unlimited MIDI tracks, 32 physical I/O, 8 inserts, 256 group channels, 8 FX Send channels, 8 FX Return channels
16 VST Instrtument Slots
4 MIDI insert plug-ins
Extended Track Inspector
Drum Editor
Key, List and Basic score editors
Mix, Overwrite, Normal, and Merge recording modes
Extended Freeze for VST instruments and audio tracks
Single Undo for offline process history
Unlimited Undo and Redo
Multi-processing support
Touch fader automation modes
Recall studio connections
Includes 135 instrument sounds,1 VST instrument, 31 VST audio effect plug-ins, 15 VST MIDI effect plug-ins
Windows Media WMA Pro Encoding

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