Personal Music Production System

Steinberg Cubase Essential 5 is an easy, intuitive approach to composing, recording, editing and mixing, Making Cubase Essential 5 your gateway to the world of Cubase. 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.

Steinberg 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.

Steinberg Cubase Essential 5 Features:

• 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.

Cubase Essential 5 Specifications:

• Minimum System Requirements: The minimum system requirements state the minimal specification your computer must have to be able to use the software. A more powerful system may be required for certain tasks or larger projects. You can find more information about computer system specification and setup here.
• Mac OS X 10.5.5
• PowerPC G5 (Intel Core Duo CPU recommended)
• 1024 MB RAM
• Display resolution 1280 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
• Windows XP or Windows Vista
• 2 GHz CPU (dual core CPU recommended)
• 1024 MB RAM
• Display resolution 1280 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