• Step and MIDI Input: The Step and MIDI Input features are now even more powerful. Modify note lengths on the fly and add voices on top with the new polyphonic note input feature.
• Simplified CC recording: MIDI CCs can now be recorded in simplified ramps to make it quicker and easier for editing the controller events afterwards.
• Replace Audio in Video: Export a new soundtrack directly into the original MP4 video file, without time-consuming video rerendering.
• Start Modes: Do you want to start from the cycle marker, the last position, or your selection? Configure where playback starts to precisely match your workflow.
• Tap your Tempo: Easily adjust the project tempo to the beat with the new Tap Tempo feature on the Transport Bar.
• Quick Channel Change: Change the channel type from mono to stereo or vice versa with just one click.
• Zoom In, Up or Down: Zoom in and out vertically with the mouse wheel by pressing CMD+Shift and decide whether you want to zoom to Transport or Selection.
• Key Commands: The new Key Command dialog makes managing your shortcuts quick and easy. Find commands easier with the dynamic filter and try new macros on the fly.
• More Key Commands: Cubase 13 introduces many new commands that will make your life easier. These include renaming selected events, adding markers on active marker track, and move range to next hit point.
• Ready for MIDI 2.0: With support for high resolution velocity, CC, aftertouch, pitch bend, and poly pressure data, Cubase 13 is ready for the widespread adoption of MIDI 2.0.
• Better Windows Management: Cubase now features Windows-compliant multiwindow handling.
• Video Engine: The Windows video engine has been improved, including GPU hardware decoding for H264 and better overall performance.

Chord Track

• The global Chord Track facilitates working with chords in a project context, enabling transform and harmonize functions throughout the application. Advanced voicing options are used to reflect any changes made in the Chord Track to both MIDI and audio tracks processed with VariAudio, in a harmonically correct and melodic way.

Chord Pads

• This inspiring tool helps you compose music quickly and creatively. It is very easy to get stuck when writing chord progressions, but with the fast and easy-to-use Chord Pads, fresh inspiration will always be close at hand. Jam with chords and patterns in real time and control multiple parameters to change chords as you go. The chord pads are playable via a MIDI controller and real-time parameters allow you to easily improvise chord performances by changing voicings, tensions and much more, while you are letting the music and inspiration carry you along.

Scale Assistant

• Set your song’s scale in the Key Editor and follow its lead, quantize a solo to the scale or play live in perfect tune. You can change the view to only see the notes of the set scale. You can even let the Scale Assistant analyze your MIDI recording and suggest the right scale.

Score Editor (Basic)

• The basic Score Editor allows you to display music notation in Cubase. It shows MIDI notes as a musical score and provides you with basic editing functions. For the full range of functions, Cubase Pro provides you with an advanced Score Editor as a professional notation environment, with full support for virtually every symbol, display and editing option.

Audio to MIDI Chords

• Convert audio to MIDI chord progressions, by simply dragging your audio recordings to the Chord Track. And if the detection does not match your scale, the Chord Assistant can suggest the nearest alternatives based on the following chords. The Create Chord Events from Audio feature blurs the borders between audio and MIDI, letting you focus on the music.

Arranger Track

• Setup your project in a nonlinear fashion by using an arranger track, which allows you to specify how and when specific sections are played back, even in live performances. It means you do not need to move, copy, or paste events in the Project window.

Chord Assistant

• You don’t have to be a musical genius to create beautiful melodies, thanks to the powerful Chord Assistant. It helps you generate everything from simple pop to complex jazz chord sequences that sound great. It is even possible to specify the first and final chords and, if you don’t know what should go in between, the Chord Assistant will list chord suggestions which you can choose from.

Hermode Tuning

• Hermode Tuning dynamically retunes the notes you play, creating clear frequencies for every (for example) fifth and third interval. Retuning only affects individual notes and it maintains the pitch relationship between keys and notes. The retuning is a continuous process and also takes the musical context into account.

Audio Prerecord

• This allows you to record audio during playback or in stop mode. Never again miss that perfect take just because you forgot to press record. You can specify how many seconds of incoming audio will be captured in buffer memory.

Retrospective Record

• This feature allows you to capture any MIDI notes that you play in Stop mode, or during playback, and turn them into a MIDI part. Retrospective Record means you never lose any ideas.

Punch In/Punch Out

• These are a pair of markers that determine the record start (punch in) and record stop (punch out) positions.

Metronome Click (Basic)

• The basic metronome ensures you to stay in time when you are recording your music. It offers several options to set up your personal metronome, like changing the sound or the velocity of the click pattern.

Marker Track

• Add and edit markers that will help you to quickly locate certain positions in your project. 

Pre-Roll/Post-Roll

• This allows the project cursor to roll back by a specified time value before playback starts. When the cursor reaches the left locator, recording is automatically activated. When the cursor reaches the right locator, recording is deactivated, but playback continues for the specified post-roll value before stopping.

Rerecording

• In this mode recording is reinitiated, the events are removed and recording restarts from the same position.

Pool

• Every time you record on an audio track, a file is created on your hard disk. A reference to this file (a clip) is added to the Pool. The Pool displays folders and their contents in a similar way to the Windows Explorer / macOS Finder, allowing you to intuitively perform operations that affect files on disk and that only affect clips.

Key Editor

• The Key Editor is a very powerful-yet-transparent facility which opens up virtually limitless possibilities for songwriters and composers. This is where melodies, chords, arrangements and performances take shape and where ideas are sketched out and developed to their full potential. Based on more than three decades of experience, the Key Editor features an ultra-intuitive user interface and extremely accurate tools.

Drum Editor

• This is a formidable tool for constructing and reworking beats, rhythms and grooves, with a plethora of features to help you compose the perfect rhythm for your song or production.

Chord Editor

• Here you can define, change, and add new chord events.

Chord Editing Section

• The Chord Editing Sections allows you to insert and edit chords directly in the Key Editor.

Drum Maps

• Different MIDI drum instruments often use different key assignments, which can be troublesome if you have created a drum pattern using one MIDI device and then want to play it on another. The drum maps feature helps you to solve this problem and to simplify several other aspects of MIDI drum kits, such as using drum sounds from different instruments in the same kit.

Quick Controls

• This is where your most important parameters are gathered in one place, saving you from having to move through the various windows and sections relating to your track.

Audio Parts

• Audio Parts are containers for audio events. If you want to treat several audio events as one unit in the Project window, you can convert them to a part.

Hitpoint Detection

• Hitpoints mark musically relevant positions in audio files. When this function is activated, the transient positions will be detected and hitpoints will be created automatically by analyzing onsets and melodic changes within the audio.

Sample Editor

• Edit your audio with almost limitless creative freedom in the Sample Editor. A comprehensive set of tools offers a huge range of functions, covering everything from common editing tasks down to sample level adjustments. It is a complete production environment with fast, intuitive and outstanding quality audio tools, which allow you to manipulate your recordings in almost any way imaginable.

Time Stretch

• This function allows you to change the length and tempo of the selected audio without affecting the pitch.

MixConsole

• Cubase’s MixConsole excels not only in terms of usability and look and feel, but sounds like a high-end analog mixing console. Featuring a scalable dedicated full-screen mode, the MixConsole is optimized for mouse-free operation—virtually all channel elements are accessible via the computer keyboard and screen reader software for the visually impaired. Featuring View Sets and Channel Zones for the utmost flexibility, one-click direct routing, customizable track icons, track notepad, drag-and-drop support, and plug-in / channel search, it feels like having a state-of-the-art mixing console in your computer—and sounds like it, too.

Channel Strip (Basic)

• In the basic channel strip version, just like in the advanced version, you can assign modules directly to the specific channel.

Easy side-chaining

• This commonly used technique is very popular in contemporary music production and has a wide range of creative applications, from creating the well-known bass pumping effect, to making space for the kick drum in your mix, to many other sonic effects. It is a very helpful tool for sound designers to use a sound source to modulate the behavior of a totally different sound, creating interesting ambiences or otherworldly effects. Cubase Elements’ straightforward side-chain setup lets you create the desired routing with just a few clicks. Activate side-chaining in your FX plug-in, select the source from the track list, and it is ready to go.

Ultraprecise automation curves

• Create and edit smooth transitions, for example for musical build-ups and providing detailed automation lanes, while keeping mouse clicks to a minimum.

A/B comparison

• Effect parameter settings can be used as a starting point for further fine-tuning and then you can compare the orginal to the revised settings.

Groove Agent SE

• Possibly the most comprehensive drum production software instrument ever produced, Groove Agent features a huge library of stunning samples, grooves and patterns, as well as a full virtual mixer and FX suite for even more creative options. Groove Agent SE features an exceptionally powerful beat production toolkit, ready to help you create the best beats, whatever genre you’re working in. Produce floor-shaking sounds and dancefloor-filling grooves with an array of incredible sample manipulation tools, FX, slice editors and much more. Thanks to its deep integration, you will be able to see the instruments mapped automatically as drum maps into the Drum Editor and Beat Designer.

Halion Sonic 7

• With a massive sample content library, in combination with powerful synthesizer engines and effects, HALion Sonic is a versatile sound production tool. Developed for both studio and stage, it is equipped with an easy-to-use interface, intuitive workflow and an extremely stable audio engine, meaning you can focus solely on being creative.

Sampler Track 2

• Take any piece of audio, and use it to create a Sampler Track. You can then play the sample chromatically and manipulate it with the onboard filters, controls, and two LFOs, experimenting to come up with new and innovative ideas. Slicing mode chops up your loops, so they’re ready-to-play with just a click, and for 808 lovers, there’s mono legato glide.

Hard Knocks

• Grammy-winner Beat Butcha has produced a sizzling pack of hip-hop heat.

Noir

• Hollywood sound designer Robert Dudzik has produced the Noir library for cinematic trailers.

Nightcall Synthwave

• Black Octopus Sound have produced this ’80s synthwave sample pack.

Dancefloor Tech House

• Black Octopus Sound have produced this dancefloor tech-house sample pack.

Lofi Dreams

• Black Octopus Sound produced this lo-fi hip-hop sample pack.

Bloom

• Black Octopus Sound have produced this vocals sample pack.

Analog Techno

• Berlin-based Florian Meindl has produced a deep grooving analog techno library with his modular synthesizer setup.

Blockbuster

• Produced by Nashville-based producer Allen Morgan, the Blockbuster library is the perfect inspiration for electronic music film trailers.

Caleidoscope

• Caleidoscope is a dedicated sample library for the Sampler Track, with hundreds of samples and presets to get you started immediately.

EDM Toolbox

• The EDM Toolbox comes with 30 new construction kits, ready to open up new creative avenues and fuel your next production. Construction kits are groups of 25 to 30 MIDI loops, routed to predefined instruments (including mix settings) to deliver immediate inspiration.

Mystic Spaces

• Mystic Spaces is a collection of extraordinary experimental sounds produced by musician, sound designer and instrument builder Ferdinand Forsch

Raw Ambience

• Drum and bass duo Rawtekk have produced Raw Ambience, a highly aesthetic sound library perfect for electronica, ambience and dubstep.

Soul Assembly

• Soul Assembly is a collection from Soul Surplus, with a vibe perfect for the foundations of new creations.

The Hip-Hop Vault

• The Beat Butcha, whose production credits include Jay-Z, Beyonce, Mobb Deep, and many others, has recorded The Hip-Hop Vault with great-sounding drums and unique loops.

Production Grooves

• Production Grooves feeds Groove Agent with over 400 drum loops and presets for all contemporary styles of music. Whether you need basic drum accompaniment for a songwriting session, epic electronica, or serious rock beats, Production Grooves has the answer.

Production Presets

• Production Presets are there to inspire when needed and to help you finish your mix. Stunning new FX chain presets for all kinds of instrument and vocal tracks will lend a fresh twist to all your productions, while new mastering track presets are designed for different types of production, ready to be used on the master bus or group channels to help you give your tracks a truly professional sound.

Allen Morgan Signature Drums

• Groove Agent SE features high quality percussive sounds in 30 drum kits, alongside 150 intricately grooving MIDI Loop patterns. All Beat Designer patterns were produced by Allen Morgan, whose artist credits include Taylor Swift, Nine Inch Nails and many more.

Allen Morgan Rock-Pop Toolbox

• Allen Morgan Rock-Pop Toolbox includes 30 construction kits, each with 25 to 30 audio and MIDI loops for contemporary music productions.

DJ EQ, Standard Channel EQ, StudioEQ, VST Dynamics, Limiter, Brickwall Limiter, Envelope Shaper, Gate, Maximizer, Tube Compressor, Vintage Compressor, Squasher, MIDI Gate, De Esser, Roomworks SE, Roomworks, MonoDelay, PingPongDelay, StereoDelay, AmpSimulator, BitCrusher, Da Tube, Distortion, Grungelizer, VST Amp Rack, Channel Tape Saturation, Channel Tube Saturation, Metalizer, Ring Modulator, AutoPan, Chopper, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Tremolo, Vibrato, Rotary, DualFilter, ToneBooster, Wah Wah, StepFilter, MorphFilter, Octaver, Pitch Correct, MonoToStereo, StereoEnhancer, Tuner, UV22HR

Video Import

• Compatible video files can be imported into a project, creating a video track with a video event.

Video Export

• Render videos as MP4s with H.264 video compression and 16-bit audio in 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz. Export the whole video (including audio) or just footage within the locator range.

Video Player

• The Video Player window provides different size options for video playback on your computer screen (the larger the size of the window and the higher the resolution of your video, the greater the processor load).

Video Track

• The Video Track is used to play back video events.

Extract Audio from Video

• When video is imported, the audio stream can be extracted. It is added to the project as a new audio track and can be edited like all other audio material.

Support for MOV, MPEG-4, and AVI

• Cubase supports MOV, MPEG-4, and AVI video formats.