Steinberg Cubase Artist 8

With a rich feature set tailored to professional musicians and composers, Cubase Artist 8 offers a wealth of music technology that seeks its equal in its price class. These include an outstandingly efficient new audio engine, inspirational song- writing features, superb virtual instruments, FX and amps, and much, much more. Cubase condenses almost three decades of Steinberg expertise into the most cutting-edge digital audio workstation anywhere. The users of our flagship DAW are among the most successful artists on the globe ” from engineers recording and mixing rock albums to dance DJs, hip hop producers, songwriters creating pop hits or film composers scoring for Hollywood blockbusters. Cubase combines industry-leading sound quality, intuitive handling and a range of advanced audio and MIDI tools for composition, recording, editing and mixing.

Composing
Key, Score, Drum and List Editor for intuitive note, chord or beat creation and editing
Note Expression “ Full instrument expression control on single-note level
Global Chord Track and Chord Pads for easy working with chords within your project

Recording
Award-winning Cubase audio engine for crystal-clear recordings in up to 192 kHz sample rate
Conjure the perfect thanks to lightning fast multitake comping
Automatic intonation control and scale correction of vocal recordings

Editing
The Sample Editor covers all common editing tasks and provides creative freedom while editing audio
Pitch shift and time stretch audio in real time
Automatic hit-point recognition and excellent beat-slicing for working with loops

Mixing
Powerful MixConsole featuring full-screen mode, total scalability and quick in-place access to the parameters
Integrated Channel Strip with premier equalization and dynamics modules
Flexible routing, A/B comparison and global bypass for audio effects

Premium VST instruments and effects
Cubase Artist delivers a rich palette of finest virtual instruments with hundreds of fantastic preset sounds and an impressive collection of 53 quality VST effect processors right out of the box.

Retrologue virtual analog synth
Padshop granular synth
Groove Agent SE 4 drum sampler
VST Amp Rack and VST Bass Amp guitar and bass tone suites
REVelation algorithmic reverb
Quadrafuzz v2 quad-type distortion