Cubase 5 Retail

by Steinberg

Product Features

• Complete cross-platform Music Production software supporting the latest 32-bit and 64-bit oprating systems
• Flagship Cubase 5 provides the most complete suite of tools for recording, editing, mixing and arranging of all your midi, audio and notation.
• Includes the REVerence convolution reverb, Variaudio for putstanding vocal pitch-correction, Loop-Mash, Groove Agent One and more
• VST Expression working with instrument articulations, allowing seamless, transparent and most importantly, integrated editing of articulations with full control over multiple articulations in the Key and Score Editors.
• Surround Mixing: All Cubase 5 VST3 plug-ins are fully surround-ready, intelligently adapting their I/O configuration as required for mono, stereo or surround.
• Complete cross-platform Music Production software
• Supporting the latest 32-bit and 64-bit oprating systems
• Vocal pitch-correction, Loop-Mash, Groove Agent One and more
• Integrated editing of articulations with full control over multiple articulations in the Key and Score Editors.
• Surround Mixing intelligently adapts their I/O configuration as required for mono, stereo or surround.
• VST Expression working with instrument articulations, allowing seamless, transparent
• All Cubase 5 VST3 plug-ins are fully surround-ready,
• Flagship Cubase 5 provides complete suite for recording, editing, mixing and arranging all audio.
• Includes the REVerence convolution reverb, Variaudio.
• VST Expression working with instrument articulations.
• Transparent and integrated editing of articulations with full control over multiple articulations in the Key and Score Editors.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 9.6 x 4.5 inches ; 4.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B001RUYQ3Y
• Item model number: 502012600
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,700 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)
  • #24 in Musical Instruments > Recording Equipment > Computer Recording > Software > Recording

Product Description

Steinberg Cubase 5 adds even more creative possibilities and new technologies to the world's premiere music production software. VariAudio and Pitch Correct provide integrated intonation editing for monophonic vocal recordings. Groove Agent ONE and Beat Designer change the game for beat creation, while the revolutionary LoopMash seamlessly blends loops, creating unimaginable variations. VST Expression tools for composers combine with the first VST3 convolution reverb and improved automation for more dynamic mixes. An array of additional enhancements and 64-bit technologies boost performance—all designed to inspire further musical creativity and productivity.Some of the highlights of Cubase 5 Loop Mash is a revolutionary virtual instrument offering a fresh and innovative way of playing with loops and creating dozens of seamlessly blendable variations to get that original beat going. Drum sampling deluxe: Groove Agent ONE pairs powerful drum sampling with detailed sound shaping—all seamlessly integrated into Cubase. Not only does it handle import of sliced loop and MPC files, it also rocks right out of the box with its own custom library of acoustic, urban, and Hip-Hop drum kits. Beat it: Beat Designer is a hot new-to-the-series beat construction plug-in that allows you to get hands-on with beats for step programming and designing drum patterns in an easy yet powerful way, working hand in hand with Groove Agent ONE. Total vocal editing: VariAudio offers completely integrated pitch and note length editing for individual notes in monophonic vocal recordings—bridging the gap between traditional MIDI and audio editing. On-the-fly pitch correction: The new-to-the-series Pitch Correct VST3 plug-in brings easy and automatic intonation control and scale correction of vocal and monophonic instrument recordings to Cubase. Experience in space: REVerence is a new-to-the series VST 3 convolution reverb processor.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good pro level DAW, Documentation needs improvement, February 27, 2010

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theshowmecanuck (The empty space on the map above the United States because nothing exists except the United States (according to CNN)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cubase 5 Retail (Electronics)

Cubase 5 provides a feature rich environment to do just about anything you need to do in audio/MIDI recording on a professional or advanced hobbyist level. It is compatible with just about every type of plugin on the market and comes with a good assortment of quality VST instruments and effects to get you started. It works well on Windows machines (I've used it on XP Pro 32 bit and Windows 7 Pro 64 bit) using ASIO drivers (no latency issues at all). From my discussions with other users, it works as well if not better on Apple based computers too. It is adequate for mastering, but if you are really serious, you may need another tool for that (but not necessarily).

As far as the features etc go, it rates a four or five out of five. However documentation and support only rate maybe a two or even a one. The help system does not even rate that well. However, I believe that a lot of software houses related to the music industry are quite poor in this area as well. Anyway, like I said, my biggest complaint is its poor documentation and non-existent context based help. Or any help system at all. Links to the pdf based manuals does not a help system make, and is quite frankly just plain lame. Everything around this area needs to be improved a great deal.

Cubase does have an extensive user base with a good online community hosted at [...]t. Unfortunately the Steinberg folks let the community provide most of the answers that Steinberg should be providing. Again, this seems to be the (very sad) industry standard. One thing that bothers me is that they insist you have a registered version of Cubase for you to join, search, or post to their web forums. I would prefer that it be open so that people who may use other DAWs can comment or possibly lend insight. It also would let others learn more about recording. I tend to like open communities that can share knowledge, therefore I find this aspect of their 'support' to be mentally challenged (i.e. retarded). Granted I have my license but I do still feel this way.

Steinberg's responsiveness to issues in their code (bugs etc.) seems to be average or a little below based on other software industries. But again, this seems par with music based software. i.e. the other options aren't that much different to worry about.

I would also suggest Steinberg add more examples to their documentation on how to use the features of this overall good application for new users (heck, and even for not so new users... we all miss stuff in an app this complex). As well, I would suggest that Steinberg (or Yamaha... I believe they recently bought Steinberg) also create a ton of video based tutorials on how to use their products and post them to youtube in high def format (right now there are a bunch of well meaning but half assed video tutorials from the user base). That would end a lot of complaints from new users and probably help the company's bottom line as they provide help over the massive learning curve users have to this level of recording tool. They would then sell more of the lower cost versions of this software. Happy users are the best advertising you can get.

In conclusion, Cubase 5 has all the tools you need for recording, and decent tools for mastering/mixing/etc. It lacks good directions on how to use them. I'm giving it a four out of five, but if I could give it a 3.5 I would. I'm tempted to give it a 3 based on the very poor documentation, but the tool itself is good, so I am giving it the benefit of the doubt. But it is a close call. :)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic piece of software, June 6, 2010

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Dave@amazon - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cubase 5 Retail (Electronics)

This is the most capable DAW on the market, and I have extensively tried Ableton, Sonar and many others. Very stable in x64, excellent sounding and great workflow, I recommend this to all users who consider to go "professional"

10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cubase5, November 17, 2009

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B. R. Lewis (New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cubase 5 Retail (Electronics)

Great product with some fantastic plugins and thankfully it works very similar to SX3 no great learning curve there...

However, Installing and getting it operational was a nightmare (installed on WinXP(64) the LCC software protection was shocking to install and kept crashing.
And I searched for DAYS on online forums to find info on the various errors that came up when it failed to install.

BIG RECOMMENDATION FOLKS... find ALL the necessary windows updates FIRST!!!
Esp the windows media updates.
Search the web by typing in the error code and DON'T GIVE UP.

Cubase5 is a great program and even better on a 64bit OS because of the extended memory use (in our case 8Gb)
There is No mastering suite in Cubase5... I'm still researching that.

the Steinberg Forums worked but were equally as frustrating to use because they kept on rejecting my logins..

NOT GOOD FOR A NEW CUSTOMER!!!!!!!

IT ALL SOUNDS A BIT NEGATIVE DOESN'T IT?
But to be fair (on US, the customer) I don't think it should take days of installing and re-installing (OS as well) to have an operational program..

it works fine as a box of new kittens now.. Was it worth it??? Hmmmmmmmmm