Stienberg released the long awaited update to Cubase recently. Cubase 5 has many new features as well as fixs and enganced performance stababilty. New virtual instruments and plugins are thrown in as well as support for VST 3 which should lead to some interesting new plugin features.

The full version of Cubase 5 retails at a woping £470 with updates from cubase 4 at about £150. Stienberg have also released Cubase studio 5 which is a striped down version for £329.

Heres some videos explaining the new features.

Beat slicing, editing and sequencing

New mixing tools

Vocal editing and pitch correction

Faster performance and workflow

I must admit i’m tempted by the beat slicing tools, as it can be a royal pain in the arse to manually chop export & import beats but they also said this about hit points which far from worked well in my opinion. For that amount of money the question is …

Do you really need to upgrade?

Zander

Sequencers, Software, Video Beat slicing, Cubase 5, daw, mixing, new features, pitch correction, sequencer, Software, stienberg, Video, vocals, VST 3

Livecut screenshot

Livecut is a live beatsliceing tool developed by Paul Kellett (mdsp) and is based on BBCut, the BreakBeat Cutting library written by Nick Collins for SuperCollider. Livecut has many more features than just slicing a beat. Aswell as different cutting styles like cutproc11, warpcut and SQpusher theres also a bit crusher and comb filtering.

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Free software Beat slicing, Free, Livecut, Music, plugin, review