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

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