Steinberg Cubase Elements 8 - Personal Music Production Software (Educational Discount)

Description

Cubase Elements 8 from Steinberg is a personal music studio, incorporating professional workflows using the same technology platform as its larger siblings in the Cubase family. The software offers multiple tools for intuitive song-writing, instruments to develop musical ideas, and studio-grade effects.

Note: This product is an educational discounted version available to qualified students, faculty/staff, and accredited academic institutions only. Proof of current educational status is required.

Features

What's New in Cubase Elements 8

• Improved windows handling on PC, dockable rack, and MediaBay, plus a redesigned Track List
• Instrument (t)rack 2.0 supports multi-outputs and multi-inputs, and merges instrument tracks with the VST Instrument Rack
• Chord pads for creatively composing with chords
• Groove Agent SOE 4 includes over 120 drum kits and smart user interface for creating beats and hits
• HALion Sonic SOE 2 with new sounds plus a new synthesiser
• Plug-in manager allows for arranging, sorting, and grouping effects and instruments
• ASIO-Guard 2 provides ultra-low latency only on the tracks where latency is an issue
• Tab to transients on audio events in the Project window thanks to the new instant hit-point navigation
• Re-record mode allows for simply hitting the record button again and the recording starts from the original position preserving the original pre-count and metronome settings
• Redesigned Track List and Inspector now offer better readability
• Improved channel strip AEQ
• Updated tuner plug-in now features strobe tuning mode, a customisable base frequency and a bigger display for better readability
• Unlimited encoding to MP3 along with unlimited decoding of MP3 files
• FLAC lossless compression codec for recording, importing and exporting audio files

Features

• Personal music production system with a set of streamlined audio and MIDI tools for composition, recording, editing, scoring, and mixing
• 32-bit floating-point Steinberg audio engine with sampling rates up to 192 kHz, flexible routing, and full automatic delay compensation
• Supports 64 MIDI and 48 simultaneous audio tracks
• Key and drum editor for intuitive note, chord, or beat creation and editing
• Sample editor covers all common editing tasks and provides creative freedom while editing audio
• MixConsole provides flexible routing, A/B comparison, global bypass for audio effects, and integrated AEQ/Dynamics channel strip modules
• Automatic intonation control and scale correction of vocal recordings
• Pitch shift and time stretch audio in real time
• Automatic hit-point recognition and precise beat-slicing for working with loops
• Virtual instruments include HALion Sonic SOE workstation, MPC-style Groove Agent SOE drum machine, and Prologue synthesiser
• 44 audio effect processors, including Pitch Correct for vocal intonation correction, MorphFilter, and the VST Amp Rack guitar tone suite
• Chord track and chord pads for easy chord composing and management
• Thousands of MIDI construction loops and dozens of presets
• Streamlined score editing feature set

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