Designed for professional producers, film composers, and mix engineers, Steinberg DAC Cubase Pro 12 (Educational Site License Only, Upgrade from Previous Version 4-11, Minimum Quantity: 5) is a complete music-production environment that combines sophisticated audio and MIDI tools with pristine audio quality. Offering a fast, flexible, and intuitive workflow, this powerful software can be used for composing, sequencing, beat making, recording, editing, mixing, and mastering—making it ideal for producing and scoring tracks from start to finish, in all genres. Cubase Pro 12 offers several new features including MIDI Remote integration, VariAudio with Scale Assistant, Audio to MIDI chords, and the FX Modulator, as well as improvements to the AudioWarp engine, Logical editor, and general editing workflows.

For superior audio quality, Cubase Pro 12 utilizes a 64-bit audio engine compatible with resolutions up to 192 kHz. The software offers unlimited audio, instrument, and MIDI tracks, and can accommodate up to 256 physical inputs and outputs as well as 256 group channels. Notable features include full 5.1 surround and virtual reality functionality, full automatic delay compensation, flexible routing options, and support for external instruments and effects. Users have access to 81 audio FX plug-ins, 18 MIDI FX plug-ins, eight virtual instruments with over 3000 sounds, VariAudio 3 for pitch and time correction, and a host of improvements over the previous versions.

Unlimited Audio, MIDI, Instrument Tracks    256 Physical In/Out & 256 Group Channels    Effects Plug-Ins: 81 Audio and 18 MIDI    8 Instruments with Over 3000 Sounds    Supports External Instruments & Effects    Dynamic EQ and Spectral Comparison EQ    MIDI Remote Integration    Scale Assistant in VariAudio    Improved AudioWarp    Mac/Windows, VST2, VST3

Cubase Pro 12 features significant new features and workflow enhancements, which make composing, recording, and mixing music even more creatively rewarding. From improved MIDI Remote integration and improved editing tools to enhanced audio-to-MIDI and new effects, Cubase Pro 12 brings your creative ideas to life better and faster than ever.

• MIDI Remote Integration: Built around the new concept of MIDI Remote Scripts, Cubase automatically detects your device and maps the controls. If there is no script for your device yet, you can easily create your own with the MIDI Controller Surface Editor. You can then conveniently connect controls and parameters with the Mapping Assistant.
• VariAudio with Scale Assistant: Get creative with melodies or correct the pitch of your recordings, the Scale Assistant in VariAudio brings two powerful tools together to make pitch editing a breeze. Just set the scale and follow the Chord Track or let the Scale Assistant suggest the scale, based on your recorded notes. You can then instantly quantize the pitch of your recording or snap the VariAudio pitch editing to the scale.
• Audio to MIDI Chords: Drag your audio recording to the Chord Track and Cubase will lay out the chord progression for you. And if the detection does not match your scale, the Chord Assistant can suggest the nearest alternatives based on the following chords. The new Create Chord Events from Audio feature in Cubase blurs the borders between audio and MIDI, letting you focus on the music.
• FX Modulator: Breathe life into your sounds with the advanced, multi-effect modulation of FX Modulator. From classic ducking effects to exciting rhythmic patterns, it offers brand new ways to get creative. Create custom shaped LFOs and modulate up to six integrated effect modules at once. The LFO can also be triggered via MIDI or use one or more side-chain inputs, letting the LFO follow the incoming signals. And if you don’t want to create your own styles, you will find inspiration in many carefully designed presets.
• No Dongle Required: Cubase Pro 12 no longer requires the USB eLicenser dongle, ushering in a new era with a licensing system that doesn’t need a physical copy protection device and also lifts many restrictions of the past.
• ARA Improvements: ARA Extensions can now be applied at track level, letting you conveniently edit all events within that track.
• New SuperVision Modules: Added several amazingly useful new modules to SuperVision, including a VU meter, spectrum keyboard, phase balance, level and loudness histograms.
• Editing Workflow Improvements: Steinberg has improved the editing workflows with new functions and key commands to help. The new Nudge Grid options let you edit independently from the project grid. Additionally, Cubase has added key commands to the Range Selection tool for easier navigation. There are also new key commands to slip event content, adding fades and sizing events with fades.
• Sample Accurate Volume Automation: Volume automation is now near sample accurate and completely independent from the buffer size.
• Bluetooth MIDI in Windows: Cubase now supports MIDI over Bluetooth in Windows 10.
• Verve: A Sonic Masterpiece: A felt piano that is beautiful and warm, dreamy and melancholic, and detailed and pure. Recorded in the Yamaha Studios in LA, Verve was created to create a sonic masterpiece that allows you to tell a new story with every single note you play. You can give Verve a new tone by layering it with additional textures, creating never before heard sounds for your compositions. Verve is not just a piano; it is sonic emotions and stories.
• Performance Improvements: Significant improvements in several areas including performance when navigating and zooming within huge projects.

• Advanced Crossfade Editor: The advanced crossfade editor offers more control, new operations and advanced editing, to help you create the perfect blend.
• AudioWarp Improvements: The Free Warp tool lets you edit your audio recordings and correct timing directly in the Project window. You can adjust multiple tracks at once in Group Editing, while the new phase-coherent AudioWarp mode helps you avoid phase issues.
• Raiser: Latest of Cubase’s dynamic processing tools. Its ultrafast attack times let you dramatically increase the loudness of your projects without compromising transients or transparency.
• Import Tracks from Project Improvements: Import tempo and signature tracks from other projects and track archives, making for seamless exchange between projects.
• Audio Export with Sidechain Support: Audio export of individual channels or stems now allows you to print audio, including taking into account side-chain input from tracks outside of the stem group.
• Logical Editor Improvements: Customize and build your own workflows with the improved Project and MIDI logical editors, the input transformer and Transformer MIDI plug-in, which feature new user interfaces, and new preset browsers, and many new functions and filters.
• Pro Improvements: For audio professionals, Steinberg has added several new features from their advanced postproduction system, Nuendo. These include the option to add a second video track, a fourth MixConsole, and export multiple selected events at once.
• Dolby Atmos Music Creation: Produce immersive music for Dolby Atmos completely in the box. Assign bed and objects from tracks in existing projects, or create entirely new Dolby Atmos projects from scratch.

• Spectral Comparison EQ: Clean up your mix more accurately to create room for each instrument. The new Spectral Comparison mode in the Channel EQ helps you quickly identify where action is needed.
• Video Export Render: Render videos as MP4 with H.264 compression and 16-bit stereo audio in 44.1 and 48 kHz directly from your Cubase Pro 10.5 project. Export the whole video or just footage within the locator range, adding the timecode to the video export for the next production process.
• MultiTap Delay: Made for musicians, the new MultiTap Delay creates up to eight taps per delay loop, which can be conveniently edited. You can add effects to the complete output with a simple click; add just the delay loops or even each individual tap, while different character presets deliver the sound of clean digital delays or classic vintage echo units.
• Padshop 2: The popular Padshop 2 granular synthesizer comes with improvements and even more creative tools. At its heart, the new spectral oscillator opens the door to new soundscapes and lets you turn your own samples into fascinating sonic sculptures. Add motion to your sounds with the new arpeggiator section, and use the effects section to add the finishing shine. You can be inspired by 100 new presets, or start creating your own unique sounds right away.
• Colorized Mixer Channels: The new option to colorize complete channels in the MixConsole helps you instantly find the channels you are looking for, making your workflow faster and easier.
• Import Tracks from Projects: Exchanging data between projects and creating new project templates are now much easier with the new track import functionality. With a simple click, the Auto Map function even matches the imported tracks to existing tracks with the same name.
• Retrospective MIDI Record: The completely revised MIDI Retrospective Recording feature lets you capture your MIDI input, even when you have not started recording.
• Combined Select Tools: The new Combined Select Tools mode speeds up your editing workflow by combining the two most frequently used tools in one powerful tool. With it, the selection tools for both objects and ranges can be used at the same time, without the need to change tools.
• Score Editor Improvements: Use the mouse wheels to quickly transpose selected notes.
• Easier Macro Creation: Create Macros faster.
• LUFS Normalization: Choose to normalize by either dB Loudness Unit (EBU R128) or by setting dBFS Max.
• Safe Start Mode: Initiate Cubase Pro 10.5 without any third-party plug-ins loaded.
• New Plug-Ins: Stereo Delay, De-Esser, and Roomworks processors to enhance your plug-in chain, particularly for vocal recordings.
• Graphical Improvements: Zooming and scrolling in large projects is improved.

• Audio Alignment: Makes stacking vocals and other recordings fast, easy, and efficient by automatically matching the timing of different instrument or vocal tracks you want to play back simultaneously.
• VariAudio 3: Offers fully integrated vocal editing and pitch change of individual notes in monophonic vocal recordings, allowing you to solve intonation and timing problems with just a few clicks. 
• MixConsole with Channel Strip: For a pro mixing-desk experience, the MixConsole comes with a high-end channel strip, complete with EQ and dynamics, reverbs, delays, VCA faders, loudness meters, and wave meters.
• Chord Pads and Chord Track: These intelligent compositional tools allow for creative and playful composing of harmonic progressions, from simple pop to complex jazz arrangements. Jam with chords and patterns in real time and control multiple parameters to change chords as you go.
• Comping: Create the perfect version of a recording from multiple takes by simply swiping across the best parts and a master take containing all selected parts will be created automatically.
• Control Room: A unique recording and monitoring environment, which seamlessly integrates performer mixes and monitoring setups into your recording and mixing workflow.
• Drum Editor: An intuitive beat-making tool for constructing and reworking beats, rhythms, and grooves.
• MixConsole History: Record every change made in the MixConsole, allowing you to undo/redo and choose the mix you prefer.
• Retrologue 2: This virtual synth brings back the sound of analog circuitry and vintage warmth, but with a modern twist. Offering raw analog lead and bass sounds, ephemeral and delicate pads, and structures, dark drones, and ultra-aggressive comps.
• Sampler Track: Allows you to turn any imported or recorded audio file into a playable instrument with full filter, pitch, and envelope controls for sound-design flexibility. You can also drag any MIDI part in the Sampler Control window and start experimenting with the instantly rendered audio file.
• Loop and Sample Libraries: The software comes with thousands of MIDI construction kits, audio loops, and samples that can be used as building blocks to create sketches, jams, or even full songs, with just a few clicks.
• Score Editor (Advanced): A professional notation environment with full support for virtually every symbol, display, and editing option. It includes support for lyrics and comments as well as drum notes, guitar tablature, and lead sheets. 
• Video Follows Edit Mode: Allows you to edit audio while the video display provides continuous visual feedback. 
• Surround Sound and Virtual Reality: Cubase Pro 10.5 provides integrated surround-sound features with support for several formats. All audio-related channels and buses can handle multichannel speaker configurations. For virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) productions, you can create mixes in first-order, second-order, and third-order Ambisonics format.

• Groove Agent SE
• Halion Sonic SE 3
• Retrologue 2
• Sampler Track 2
• Verve
• Padshop 2
• Flux
• Trip

Audio Effects

• DJ EQ, Standard Channel EQ, StudioEQ, GEQ 10, GEQ 30, Frequency EQ 2, Voxengo curveEQ, VST Dynamics, Limiter, Brickwall Limiter, Envelope Shaper, Gate, Maximizer, Raiser, Tube Compressor, Vintage Compressor, Squasher, MIDI Gate, De Esser, Expander, Multiband Compressor, Multiband Envelope Shaper, Multiband Expander, Roomworks SE, REVeleation, REVerence, Roomworks, MonoDelay, PingPongDelay, StereoDelay, MultiTap Delay, ModMachine, AmpSimulator, BitCrusher, Da Tube, Distortion, Grungelizer, VST Amp Rack, Channel Tape Saturation, Channel Tube Saturation, Quadrafuzz 2, Magneto 2, VST BAss Amp Rack, Distroyer, SoftClipper, Metalizer, Ring Modulator, AutoPan, Chopper, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Tranceformer, Tremolo, Vibrato, Rotary, LoopMash FX, Cloner, Studio Chorus, FX Modulator, DualFilter, ToneBooster, Wah Wah, StepFilter, MorphFilter, Octaver, Pitch Correct, MonoToStereo, StereoEnhancer, Imager, Mix6to2, Tuner, UV22HR, SMP{TE Generator, TestGenerator

MIDI Effects

• Beat Designer, Arpache 5, Arpache SX, Auto LFO, Chorder, Compressor (MIDI), Context Gate, Density, MIDI Control, MIDI Echo, MIDI Modifiers, MIDI Monitor, Micro Tuner, Note to CC, Quantizer, Step Designer, Track Control, Tranceformer

Related Questions and Answers

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