Steinberg Cubase SX3
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Music Creation & Production System
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Steinberg Cubase SX3 (Cubase SX version 3) takes music production to
a new level by adding more than 70 new features including powerful Audio
Warp Realtime Timestretching, an intuitive Play Order Track, convenient
Inplace Editing and many new editing functions.
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For the first time, a native music production system combines full-featured
audio and MIDI recording and editing, virtual instruments and powerful
audio mixing with the added flexibility of loop- and pattern-based arranging
and mixing. Cubase SX3 supports Windows XP and Mac OSX and works with
a multitude of audio interfaces. With seamless integration of external
audio and MIDI hardware Cubase SX 3 re-defines virtual studio technology.
Key New Features
Audio Warp
A new realtime Timestretching algorithm has been implemented to
offer realtime tempo and pitch editing.
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Musical audio can now automatically follow a songs tempo and tempo
changes. Individual parts can be transposed or tuned. ACID® files
can be imported directly into a project and instantly take on the song’s
tempo. Complex tempo matching and audio quantizing tasks can now be
done on the fly – in realtime with instant audio feedback!
Play Order Track
The new intuitive Play Order Track allows pattern-based arranging within
the Cubase SX3 environment for a new level of creative music making.
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Divide your song into sections, and then re-arrange it on the fly.
Compare alternative versions of your song and then convert them back
into a linear form for mixdown and mastering.
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Inplace MIDI Editing
MIDI events can now be edited directly from within the project window.
This allows for ultra-fast direct MIDI event editing in context with
audio or video. A huge time-saver!
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A click on the “Edit Inplace” button opens the key editor
inside the project window.
MIDI Device Maps
Editing external MIDI devices is now an integrated part of Cubase. External
MIDI device editing panels can be created or imported from VST Mixer
Maps. This allows for realtime control, automation and snapshot automation.
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Custom device panels can be created to fit into the new User Panel
of the Track Inspector or into the Channel Strip of the VST mixer. The
Device Editor comes with tools to create custom user panels that fit
precisely into either the track inspector or the mixer’s channel
strip. Of course, there may be more than one user panel for a given
device.
 
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User-Definable Workspaces
User-definable Workspaces (window layouts) help organize your desktop.
Create and save a separate workspace for each step of the production
process and then switch Workspaces on the fly, as if working on multiple
computers or monitors.
Volume Envelopes
An new additional way of controlling the dynamics of a part. The pen
tool can be used to draw volume curves directly on parts. These curves
will be locked to the part and move with the part. This is great for
fixing level problems within a part without using track automation.
External Effects Plugins
Instead of having to use outboard mixers, Cubase SX 3 users can run
their audio tracks and virtual instruments though external signal processors
using the VST mixer. Hardware effects can be used like plugins.
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A new tab in the VST Connections window is used to set up external
hardware signal processors as plugins to be used in the VST mixer.
Extended Freeze
The Freeze function is now much more powerful and efficient. VST instrument
freeze now has more options for freezing with or without insert effects
and audio channels now have a freeze button too. In addition, the Freeze
function now works faster.
New Tempo Functions
The Pool Window now has a tempo column as well as a selector to set
each audio clip to musical mode. Clips set to “musical” will
follow the song’s tempo and tempo changes, whereas “non-musical”
clips will always play in their original tempo.
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The new “Process Tempo” dialog can be opened from within
the tempo track editor. This tool can be used for fast and accurate
tempo processing and tempo matching. This is especially useful when
editing music to picture.
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Colour Coding
Cubase SX3 features user-definable Colour Coding for tracks in the project
window, with the same colour being applied to respective mixer channels.
This provides more clarity and better orientation - especially when
working on complex projects with many tracks and mixer channels.
Dummy Plug-in
A Dummy Plugin now automatically replaces missing plugins when a project
is transferred to a different system. The project can be worked on and
saved with the knowledge that the original plug-ins will open up when
sent back to the original system.
Studio Connections "Total Recall"
Cubase SX 3 is the first version of Cubase to support Studio Connections,
a new open standard defined by Yamaha and Steinberg to support deeper
integration between hardware and software studio environments.
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The first implementation of Studio Connections in Cubase SX3 features
Total Recall (optional integration of Yamaha’s Studio Manager 2).
Any or all settings of supported hardware devices can be saved within
the project. When a project is opened again, these settings can be sent
automatically or manually to connected hardware devices, potentially
providing Total Recall for an entire studio.
The Yamaha Studio Manager 2 can be opened directly from Cubase SX3’s
device menu when installed on the same system. From Studio Manager,
individual device editors can be opened by double-clicking the device
icons. When assigned to a MIDI track, these editors can also be opened
from the track inspector, the mixer or the track edit window.
Applications
Music Composition
Cubase SX3 is the perfect environment for any composer, songwriter,
and music producer. Regardless of how a creative person approaches music
– Cubase SX3 offers the best set of tools for music creation. Cubase
SX3 sets a new standard for power and flexibility with the new Audio
Warp technology that solves even the most complex tempo matching or
tempo correction tasks. The powerful and intuitive Play Order Track
now offers a different approach to arranging music.
Where other sequencing software forces the user into specific working
techniques, Cubase SX3 now has the perfect combination of linear, timeline-based
and intuitive pattern-style arranging – seamlessly integrated into
the familiar project view. And with the deepest integration of external
audio and MIDI hardware available, Cubase SX3 is truly the center of
a modern studio.
Loop-based Music Production and Remixing
Cubase SX3 opens a new market for Steinberg by adding powerful Audio
Warp Realtime Timestretching and pattern-style arranging and editing
using the intuitive new Play Order Track to its already powerful feature
set. In the past, many existing Cubase owners used additional loop-based,
pattern-style sequencers for writing and arranging music based on pre-existing
elements such as ACID® loops.
With Cubase SX3, this popular way of working has become an integrated
element of one of the most powerful music production systems. Often
these users had to transfer their projects to Cubase or use ReWire for
mixing in Cubase. Now everything can be done right within Cubase –
with the major advantage that everything is kept in sync and up-to-date
on the project level and users may go back into recording/editing anytime.
Surround Music Production and Mixing
Cubase SX2 defined a new standard for multi-channel music production.
The multi-channel audio path and the smart handling of multi-channel
audio files are still unrivaled. Cubase SX3 adds even more flexibility
and usability when working in a multi-channel studio setup. The new
audition bus provides a separate Audition Bus for previewing, editing
or scrubbing audio. The External FX plugins allows for integration of
surround capable signal processors directly into the VST mixer. That’s
the Steinberg way of integrating software and hardware in a surround
studio environment!
Music for Picture
For more than a decade Cubase has been the preferred composition and
production tool for many film and television composers. Cubase SX3 offers
some fantastic new features for writing and arranging music to picture.
The whole area of tempo processing has been vastly improved, ranging
from one-step tempo matching using the new Process Tempo tool and more
the advanced Time Warp Tool to realtime audio warping down to the event
level. Cubase SX3 now distinguishes musical from non musical audio and
using the new Inplace Editor, single MIDI events and controllers can
be edited to picture directly from within the project window.
Cubase SX3 is now more capable than ever of handling demanding projects
in the latest music styles. Especially professional producers will appreciate
this combination of intuitive and fast recording / arranging and highest-quality
audio processing / mixing.
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