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Steinberg Software

Steinberg has been providing award-winning, technologically-advanced music and media production products for musicians and producers of music, video and film since 1984. Steinberg is today one of the world's largest audio software houses with more than 1.5 million users worldwide. Its products have long since found world renown in all aspects of modern digital audio processing, and form the backbone of facilities specialising in music composition and production, mastering, restoration, broadcast, sound design, audio post for the film industry among many others.

Cubase 5 - Advanced Music Production System
Cubase 5 comes with fully integrated new tools for working with loops, beats and vocals, such as LoopMash and VariAudio, combining with new composition features and the first VST3 convolution reverb to take musical creativity to new heights. With stunning innovations and additional enhancements that boost productivity and performance, Cubase 5 represents the absolute cutting edge in digital audio workstations.
 

Cubase Studio 5 - Music Production System
Cubase Studio 5 adds more creative possibilities and new technologies to one of the most popular music production software suites out there — providing the finest tools to artists in any musical genre. With PitchCorrect, Cubase Studio 5 provides an automatic intonation control and scale correction of vocal and monophonic recordings, whereas Groove Agent ONE and Beat Designer change the game for beat creation. VST Expression tools for composers combine with improved automation for more dynamic mixes. And an array of additional enhancements and 64-bit technologies boost performance — all designed to inspire further musical creativity and productivity.
 

Cubase Essential 4 - Personal Music Production System

Bringing to your desktop powerful tools for composing, recording, editing and mixing, Cubase Essential 4 is your entry-level ticket to the world of Cubase. Cubase Essential 4 shines with the same user interface and award-winning Audio Engine as Steinberg’s flagship Cubase 4. And that means when it comes to audio quality and intuitive handling, Cubase Essential rivals its bigger brothers. Any way you choose to use it - as a sequencer for your home recording studio or a multi-track recorder for the band rehearsal room - with Cubase Essential 4 you get the real deal at an unbeatable budget price.

  • Audio + MIDI Recording and Mixing
  • VST3 Plug-In Set (including HALion One and Guitar Amp Simulator)
  • Professional Technology (32-bit Audio Engine, 24-bit/96-kHz Recording)
  • Powerful Editors for MIDI and Audio Processing
  • VST Sound™, the unique sound management system
  • AudioWarp realtime time stretching/pitch shifting
  • Advanced Integration of Steinberg and Yamaha hardware
  • Cross-Platform: Windows and Mac OS X Universal Binary (compatible with PPC- and Intel-based Macintosh computers)
 

Sequel 2 - Music Creation and Performance

Sequel 2 is an affordable and easy-to-use music studio designed for first-time computer music enthusiasts. Combining intuitive tools to record, edit, mix and perform music with great-sounding loops, instruments and effects, Sequel 2 is the perfect first step into music production and performance. Sequel 2 runs on both PCs and Mac computers and comes with a massive library of more than 5,000 loops, over 600 of ready-to-play instrument sounds, stunning effects and the same state-of-the-art audio engine that is preferred by many world-class producers all around the globe. It’s never been more fun to create music on a computer!

 

Features

  • Complete all-in-one package — ready to use, straight out of the box!
  • Record, edit and mix music in any popular style
  • More than 5,000 loops from world-class producers included, covering popular styles like hip hop and R'n'B (more than 1,000), dance and electro (more than 1,000), pop (more than 500), metal, world music and many more
  • More than 600 ready-to-play instrument sounds including more than 60 drum kits for various styles
  • Unique live performance mode for remixing/recombining songs on the fly
  • Seamless combination of linear and pattern based arranging
  • Audio and instrument parts follow tempo and key in real time
  • Built-in studio-quality audio effects, including EQ and Dynamics in every channel
  • More than 50 Audio Track Presets for various instrument types, as well as vocals
  • Cross-platform: Windows and Mac OS X Universal Binary

New in Sequel 2

  • Plug right into Sequel 2 with almost any hardware controller or keyboard, with easy setup thanks to the new Controller Learn feature
  • Live control of your performances using a MIDI keyboard or external hardware controller
  • Play melodies and chords without MIDI keyboard using the PC keyboard or mouse
  • Find tracks in your projects faster with Track Icons to label your tracks visually
  • Track Freeze for more CPU power — more tracks, more Sequel!
  • Find your files faster with improved MediaBay handling and overview
  • Even more creativity with audio in the new Sample Editor with Free Warp and Audio Reverse
  • Set your project tempo by tapping it on a PC or MIDI keyboard
  • Low latency on Windows Vista even with no ASIO sound device thanks to Windows Vista Core Audio (Vista only)
  • Sequel Content Sets available separately with thousands of additional loops for your favorite music style

Nuendo 4 - Advanced Audio and Post Production System

Delivering a next-generation audio production environment for audio post, studio production and live recording, Nuendo 4 empowers audio professionals by elevating creativity and productivity to new heights. Technologically advanced yet extraordinarily intuitive and fully customizable, Nuendo 4 offers streamlined, precision tools that save time and boost creativity for audio professionals in today’s media, recording and film industries. Nuendo 4 provides scaleable, cross-platform systems that integrate easily and fully with premiere components by industry-leading plug-in and hardware manufacturers. Steinberg technologies provide unprecedented power, flexibility and speed, accelerating recording, mixing, editing and sound design workflows to an unprecedented level.

  • State-of-the-art digital audio production environment
  • Crystal-clear 32-bit audio engine with full surround throughout
  • Faster, more efficient workflow with dedicated tools, options and features
  • Complete set of next-generation VST3 surround effect plug-ins
  • Utilizes best available audio and computer hardware and plug-ins, including Advanced Integration of Steinberg and Yamaha hardware
  • Advanced new automation system for full control
  • Powerful Control Room integrates into any monitoring setup
  • Innovative Network Collaboration for multi-seat projects via LAN or WAN
  • Full project exchange with other leading audio and video editing systems
  • Cross platform for latest Windows and Macintosh operating systems
 

New Features

Nuendo 4 offers a state-of-the-art automation system, which combines with new recording functionality and Track Preset management features to speed up audio production workflows. A next-generation VST3 effect plug-in suite, the innovative MediaBay database, new editing commands and the Track Quick Controls raise production efficiency and quality to new heights.

New in Nuendo 4.2

With the introduction of the 4.2 update Steinberg refreshes Nuendo by introducing extensive support for Yamaha KS and Yamaha Motif XS series as well as for the Steinberg MR816 CSX/X Advanced Integration DSP Studio and the CC121 Advanced Integration Controller. Nuendo 4.2 is also a major maintenance release for Nuendo 4, and also includes several workflow enhancements and improvements.

 

WaveLab 6 - Audio Editing and Mastering Suite

WaveLab 6 is the all-in-one solution for professional mastering, high resolution multi-channel audio editing, audio restoration, sample design and radio broadcast work right through to complete CD/DVD-A production. Already a standard application for digital audio editing and processing due to its outstanding flexibility and pristine audio quality, WaveLab is used worldwide by top professionals and audio enthusiasts alike.

  • Sample accurate audio editing in stereo and surround
  • Excellent performance and outstanding audio quality with sample rates up to 384 kHz, 32-bit floating point resolution
  • Powerful Audio Montage for simultaneous editing across several tracks
  • Red Book-compatible CD mastering as well as DVD-A authoring
  • Comprehensive suite of real-time metering and analysis tools
  • Top-end EQs, dynamics and effects, with optional VST effect plug-in integration
  • Fantastic audio restoration tools
  • Support for all standard audio formats including WAV, AIFF, AU, MP3, MP2 (M.U.S.I.C.A.M.), RAW, Windows Media 9, AES-31 Import und Export plus many more
  • Support for all common bit-rates 8-, 16-, 20-, 24-bit at up to 384 kHz)
 

New Features

Version 6 extends the successful WaveLab concept by combining the renowned, award-winning WaveLab audio engine with over 120 new features and enhancements. The highlights in the new version include the innovative Spectrum Editor, the seamless intergration of external effect hardware, support for MIDI remote controllers, the new SmartBypass system with automatic loudness compensation, DIRAC time-stretching and pitch-shifting, support for Bob Katz’ K-System metering and much, much more.

 

WaveLab Studio 6 - Audio Editing and Mastering Suite

WaveLab Studio 6 combines state-of-the-art audio technology from the award-winning WaveLab 6 with a streamlined workflow and a full complement of editing and mastering features targeted at project studios and aspiring musicians. It includes the same sample accurate 32-bit audio engine and a wide range of advanced tools with the pristine audio quality originally engineered for top mastering and editing professionals in WaveLab 6. The Studio version provides many of its next-generation features and capabilities to make it one of the world’s best editing and mastering solutions in its price range.

  • Sample accurate audio editor with crystal clear audio processing at up to 192 kHz and 32 bit floating point resolution
  • Stereo and multi-channel non-destructive editing with versatile clip grouping over multiple lanes
  • Video track for sample accurate alignment of audio and video
  • Powerful real-time engine with integration of clip-based, track-based and global effect plug-ins
  • Superior audio processors including DIRAC time stretch and pitch shift algorithms
  • State-of-the-art audio plug-ins for EQ, Resampling, Declicking, Denoising and many more
  • Redbook compatible PQ editing including Audio-in-Pause, CD-Text and track sheet export Extended audio file handling and manipulation system including files sizes > 2 GB
  • Sonogram-style Spectrum View for quick overview of the frequency structure of the audio file with simultaneous aligned use of Wave- and Spectrum View
  • Extremely versatile batch processing and scripting features
 

New Features

Version 6 extends the successful WaveLab concept by combining the renowned, award-winning WaveLab audio engine with over 120 new features and enhancements. The highlights in the new version include the innovative Spectrum Editor, the seamless intergration of external effect hardware, support for MIDI remote controllers, the new SmartBypass system with automatic loudness compensation, DIRAC time-stretching and pitch-shifting, support for Bob Katz’ K-System metering and much, much more.

 

WaveLab Essential 6 - Personal Audio Editing System

WaveLab Essential 6 offers a high-value suite of audio editing tools tailored to the needs of musicians, smaller recording environments and podcast authors. Introducing a new level of functionality at a very low price point, the completely redesigned WaveLab Essential 6 provides a full complement of streamlined editing and CD/DVD burning capabilities. The integrated podcast tools combine professional editing, restoration and mastering capabilities with full internet audio publishing features, creating a unique one-stop application for recording, editing, CD burning right through to online publication via podcast. WaveLab Essential 6 is also an ideal extension to both Sequel and Cubase.

  • Podcast creation and publishing
  • Redbook compatible CD burning with CD-Text
  • Stereo non-destructive editing with versatile clip grouping over multiple lanes
  • Powerful real-time engine with integration of clip-based and global effect plug-ins
  • Superior audio processors
  • Video track for sample accurate alignment of audio and video
  • Sample accurate audio editor with crystal clear audio processing at up to 96 kHz and 32 bit floating point resolution
 

 

Groove Agent 3 - Your unbeatable virtual drummer

Groove Agent 3 is the third incarnation of Steinberg’s phenomenally successful Groove Agent virtual drummer VST instrument, and is a major step up from previous versions. Groove Agent 3 combines a huge library of drum and percussion sounds with a range of player technologies to give you dynamic, ready-to-go drums, beats, rhythms and percussion in only a few mouse clicks. Top-quality drum samples and live recorded drum performances in a massive number of variations cover 123 different styles from over 50 years of music history, automatically synced to the song tempo. And Groove Agent 3 also features more kits and sounds, including 3 new top-rate acoustic drum kits, as well as the ability to import user samples in wav and AIFF format for even more flexibility.

Groove Agent 3 adds two new agents to the Classic Agent seen in previous versions: Special Agent and Percussion Agent. While the top-notch Special Agent adds an astoundingly realistic studio drummer complete with new acoustic drum kits to Groove Agent 3’s arsenal, the Percussion Agent is specialized in red-hot percussive grooves and beats. The new Dual Mode puts any two of the three agents together in the recording studio for scorching virtual drum and percussion sessions – all within one single VST instrument. And while Groove Agent 3 breathes new life into any production with its inspiring and inventive drum performances, it’s also an ideal sparring partner for practice or jam sessions.

  • Add inspiring live drum patterns and percussion performances in real-time to your song and quickly record the result.
  • Covers almost any style: 123 styles total - 108 Groove Agent and 15 Special Agent drum styles plus hundreds of percussion performances played by professional studio drummers - automatically synced up to song tempo.
  • Variations with 25 complexity levels in each style, including fills, intros, endings and half tempo feel variations.
  • Huge audio library: 10 richly detailed acoustic kits and 9 drum machines plus a vast array of acoustic and electric percussion sounds in outstanding quality.
  • Classic Groove Agent module offers fully editable drum styles with corresponding kits and FX.
  • NEW - Special Agent module features 15 complete live drumming styles, each containing 75 different performances.
  • NEW - Percussion Agent module with 8 groups of red-hot recorded percussion grooves with hundreds of percussion performances.
  • NEW – Dual Mode combines the breathtaking creative power of two Agents playing side by side within the same VSTi.
  • NEW – flexible User Import Sample feature (wav/AIFF) - Create your own kits.
  • NEW - Realistic rolls and paradiddles thanks to Alternating hits for each drum on every note. This means no more machine gun effect.
  • NEW - Auto Fill functionality and useful Speed control for jamming and practicing.
  • RealAmbience technology offers true recorded ambience for drum kits to perfectly blend into any mix.
  • NEW - 9-band EQ and compressor for each of the 12 stereo outputs, useful Presets included.
  • Record Groove Agent beats to a MIDI track with Cubase and Nuendo or export Groove combinations to a MIDI file for further editing in any host.
  • Supports all major formats: VST, DXi, AU + Rewire for easy Pro Tools® integration.
  • Standalone version with multiple-output support included.
 

HALion Symphonic Orchestra - Acoustic Orchestral Instruments

HALion Symphonic Orchestra puts the awesome emotive power and sheer sonic majesty of a full symphonic orchestra under your total control. Evocative scores, exquisite arrangements, emotive accompaniments: HSO is the ideal, cost effective symphonic instrument for composition, production and pre-production in music, TV and film scoring and game sound.

The luxuriously extensive content provided on three double layer DVDs spans over 1200 instruments recorded in the very highest fidelity using top-of-the-range equipment. Capturing every nuance and detail of a full palette and dynamic range of strings, brass, woodwind and percussion instruments, the massive 27GB library includes an almost inexhaustible range of articulations and expressive playing techniques. And because the vast HSO library is uniquely versatile, HALion Symphonic Orchestra sounds just as great in an RnB production as in a baroque chamber piece.

Feature Highlights:

  • Complete symphonic orchestra with breathtakingly authentic strings, brass, woodwind and percussion
  • 1250 instrument patches and combis in 27GB of samples
  • Extraordinarily expressive with full dynamic range covering all common articulations of each instrument
  • Unique Crescendo Controller feature allows seamlessly real-time blending between samples with different dynamic characteristics
  • Articulation key-switch instruments for creative, intuitive and dynamic playing
  • Richly detailed and perfectly balanced sound with adjustable real recorded ambience
  • Extremely versatile for all styles from baroque to RnB and everything in between
  • Outstanding playability and instant access to all the most important parameters
  • Efficient use of system resources with state of the art HALion sampling technology
  • Cross platform (Mac/PC)
  • Supports VST, AU, DXi, ReWire as well as stand alone mode
 

HALion - The VST Sampler

Since the debut of HALion in 2001, Steinberg’s software sampler has repeatedly raised the bar for other virtual samplers. With HALion 3, you can load almost every sound library available on the market and use numerous tools to shape and even radically reinvent sounds. A clearly-arranged user interface, excellent performance, flexible routing options and the awesome sound quality of the sample engine and filters – all this makes HALion 3 a top-flight software sampler and a welcome addition to every music production toolbox.

  • 256 voices, 16-way multi-timbral, 128 programs per instance
  • Supports nearly all common sampler formats, audio file formats as well as ISO, Nero and Toast Disc Images
  • Resource-sparing operation courtesy of innovative RAMSave technology
  • 5.1 Surround-enabled Sample Engine, supports audio files up to 384 kHz
  • Up to 256 freely configurable outputs per instance
  • High-quality Waldorf filters
  • Extensive effect section
  • Integrated browser with useful tools for searching, organizing, categorizing and archiving your samples
  • Fantastic options for shaping sounds (Loop editor, synchronizable envelopes and LFOs, STEP envelopes, etc.)
  • HALion 3 sound library containing more than 160 high-quality instruments
 

New Features

With more than 50 new features, HALion 3 offers unprecedented depth and breadth of access, enabling you to work more productively and efficiently than ever before. Figuring prominently among its many innovations are an intuitive new system for sound categorization as well as impressive new insert and send effects.

 

HALion Player - Advanced Sample Library Player

If you are looking for a stable, easily handled and affordable sample playback module for VST, DXi, AU or Rewire environments, look no further - HALion Player is your first choice. With its compelling combination of the most advanced HALion 3 technology and streamlined interfaces that have been condensed down to the essentials, HALion Player is tailored to the needs of newcomers to the software sampling game. HALion Player affords you reasonably priced access to hundreds of professional HALion libraries - without having to lower your standards for sound quality.

  • HALion 3 technology at a sensationally affordable price
  • Simple handling courtesy of a streamlined, self-explanatory user interface
  • HALion 3 Sound Library with a huge selection of instruments and drum sounds in pro quality
  • Plays all native HALion 3.1 formats (HSB, fxp + fxb)
  • Import and keyboard mapping of Wav / Aif / Rex / Rex2 / Zgr / LM4 files
  • 256 voices with up to 256 audio outputs and 16 sounds on 16 MIDI channels per instance
  • Q controls for manipulating vital sound parameters (including MIDI Learn)
  • Uniform sound category system for searching, selecting and loading sounds
  • Integrates into all standard host applications (VST, DXi, AU, Rewire) and runs in standalone mode
  • Cross-platform (PC/Mac)
 

HALion Player contains the entire HALion 3 Sound Library with a vast selection instruments and drum sounds in pro quality. What’s more, it is powered by the award-winning, surround-enabled HALion 3 Playback Engine. Premium features from HALion 3, fabulous Waldorf filters and efficient disk streaming – with all these ace appointments, exceptional sound quality and best performance are assured.

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