STEINBERG CUBASE 4 *NEW* MUSIC PRODUCTION SOFTWARE Start Price USD 575.00 Current Price USD 575.00 Time Left 17 days 4 hours 4 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, November 26, 2008 End Time Sunday, January 25, 2009 Location New Jersey See more about 'STEINBERG CUBASE 4 *NEW* MUSIC PRODUCTION SOFTWARE' Description Steinberg - Cubase 4 Full Version     Designed for professionals from the ground up, Cubase 4 sets a new standard for integrated music production software by combining powerful audio and MIDI recording, synthesis, editing, mixing and effects.Cubase 4 comes with a brand-new VST3 plug-in set and four new integrated software instruments with more than 1000 sounds. The revolutionary SoundFrame™ is a powerful combination of Track Presets, Instrument Tracks, and MediaBay database, to helporganize all your sounds from every instrument - both software VSTi and hardware. Cubase 4's mixer now offers a flexible Control Room section and up to four independent studio mixes. Composers and musicians benefit from a streamlined and enhanced score editor. A redesigned user interface with many new features speeds up workflow and boosts creativity to new levels.Top-10 New Features• SoundFrame™ – Universal Sound Manager• Control Room• 33 All-New VST3 Audio Effects Plug-ins• Four New Virtual Instruments• Major Score Editor Enhancements• MediaBay• Instrument Tracks• Track Presets• User Interface Redesign• Drag & Drop for Insert FXAdditional New Features:• Mac PPC/Intel - Universal Binary• Advanced AudioWarp Realtime Transpose• New Trim Tool• User-configurable Track Inspector• New state-of-the-art Channel EQ• User-configurable Channel Strip• Intuitive Audio + MIDI Hardware Setup• MP3 Surround• MPEX 3 – High-quality audio time-stretching and pitch-shiftingAdded Value:• Complete printed "Getting Started” and "Operation” manuals• New tutorial manual including video tutorialsProduct Facts Control RoomThe mixer in Cubase 4 has been expanded with a powerful Control Room section. You!re now able to connect multiple sets of control room monitors and external sources (CD, DVD, DAT, iPod) directly to your audio hardware and switch between them from a convenient Control Room panel. All connections are defined under a new tab in the VSTConnections window. The Control Room section also offers a talkback channel, independent headphone channels, and the ability to create up to four studio mixes (monitor mixes). Therefore, each mixer channel now offers a separate studio send section for controlling those mixes.The Control Room section in Cubase 4 is identical to the same sectionin Nuendo 3.2. If you are familiar with Nuendo, you already know aboutthis powerful feature. Please check out all the details in our separatedocumentation.Major Score Editor EnhancementsThe score editor in Cubase 4 has seen a major redesign, including many usability and workflow improvements as well as new features. Composers don!t despair! None of the existing functions have been lost. All functions from previous versions are still available, albeit in different places. Here!s just a brief overview:• The Score menu is now slimmer and better organized. Some functions are now available via dedicated context menus and therefore easier to use• The symbol palettes have their own "inspector” which is organized in tabs – similar to the track inspector • Several dialogs have been combined into a single "main” score settings dialog• The Drum settings are now part of the main Drum Map Setup • Cubase 4 now offers two additional high-quality score fonts:"Jazz” and "Classical”. The original Cubase font is now available as "Legacy” font.New Plug-in Set – VST3Cubase 4 not only includes a completely new set of audio effect plugins, it also marks the next step in VST plug-in technology! VST3 offers major new features both for plug-in developers and users. VST3 plugins can adjust their number of audio busses to the channel they!re inserted to (mono, stereo, 5.1, etc.). A silence detection function makessure that a plug-in only processes audio when there!s actually a signal present. This helps to reduce overall CPU load. VST3 plug-ins natively support Mac Intel computers. For developers there are many more features under the hood.In Cubase 4, there are more than 30 all-new audio plug-ins. In addition, some of the previous plug-ins have been reworked and updated for this version, pushing the total number of plug-ins to 66! The original SX3 plug-ins will still be available to update customers. New customers may install these plug-ins as a "Legacy” set for project compatibility. One of the highlights of this new plug-in set is a powerful new state-ofthe-art 4-band parametric Equalizer, which is also available within the newly enhanced channel EQ. Other highlights include a Vintage Compressor, Studio Chorus, a new Multiband Compressor, a voicedoubler called "Cloner”, and a great-sounding modeling guitar amplifier with speaker cabinet simulation.A feature not related to VST3 but to Cubase 4!s mixer: effects can now be re-arranged using drag & drop. This works both within a single channel, as well as between channels.New Virtual InstrumentsCubase 4 adds four new virtual instruments: HALion One, Prologue, Spector and Mystic. HALion One is a special player version of HALion and comes with hundreds of ready-to-use instruments. Prologue is a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer with great-soundingfilters and powerful modulation capabilities. Spector offers spectrum filter synthesis, while Mystic uses a combination of physical modeling and comb filtering to generate unique and colorful sounds. Prologue, Spector and Mystic are powered by VirSyn technology and also come with hundreds of fantastic preset sounds.MediaBay – media file management systemTo keep up with the ever-growing number of sounds, samples, loops and presets, Cubase 4 is equipped with a powerful media file management system known as MediaBay. MediaBay is the central place for browsing, searching, managing and categorizing any type of media file. This includes audio and MIDI files, instrument and plug-in presets, video data and even project files. Files can be organized in a folder structure, using attributes, or a combination of both. Powerful search tools support even most complex tasks. A user-friendly musical category search system helps finding sounds or loops fast. MediaBay also includes a tag editor to apply attributes. A Scope section featurespreviewing options. Loops can be auditioned in the song!s tempo. Instrument TracksCubase 4 introduces a new track type: Instrument Track. An Instrument Track provides a fast and convenient way to use virtual instruments. As a quick alternative to the VSTi Rack, Instrument Tracks provide a single MIDI Input and a single stereo Output within asingle channel/track. Setting up a VST Instrument and getting ready to play is now just one step away. As a limitation, Instruments in an Instrument Track only provide a single MIDI Input and one Stereo Output. Multitimbral VSTi!s and Instruments with multiple outputs may also be used in an Instrument Track, but they will automatically berestricted to one MIDI channel and one stereo output. Of course, the VSTi Rack can still be used in the familiar way.Track PresetsOne of the most powerful new features in Cubase 4 is Track Presets – especially when they!re combined with the new MediaBay. Track Presets are presets for complete track/channel settings. They are available for audio, MIDI, and Instrument tracks. Combinations of tracks can also be saved as Multi-Track Preset. Most track and mixersetting are stored, as well as Instrument/Preset information for an Instrument Track, or MIDI Port/Channel/Patch information for a MIDI track. Also included are all insert effect settings as well as EQ. Track Presets can be saved with attributes like Category/Style/Character etc. This opens up a whole new dimension in sound management...SoundFrame™ – Universal Sound ManagerThe real power of Cubase 4 only reveals itself when combining some of the new key features and using them in conjunction. One of the biggest problems in typical project studio environments is the management of plug-ins, instruments, loops, presets, etc. Cubase 4 now offers a powerful solution to this problem: SoundFrame™What is SoundFrame™?• SoundFrame™ allows you to manage ANY sound from ANY software or hardware synthesizer under a single, unified user interface (using MediaBay)• SoundFrame™ can help you find any sound, not only by instrument but also by category, type, style, character or other attributes (Track Presets organized in MediaBay)• SoundFrame™ even comes with more than 1000 ready-to-play sounds, which are also conveniently organized by instrument category, type, and character. These can even be instantly previewed before loading. (Instrument Track Presets managing the new included VST instruments – again organized in MediaBay)• SoundFrame™ can even manage your VST effects plug-in presets as well. These can also be organized and categorized to form one big effects library.User Interface RedesignThe first thing you will notice when opening Cubase 4 is the redesigned user-interface. The overall look has become a notch darker (although this can be changed in the Appearance preference pane) and less "3D”. The overall visibility of active items versus inactive items has been vastly improved. In fact, although there are more screen elements in this version, it looks like there was less, especially in the Mixer and Inspector areas. You will notice that selected mixer channels are now very clearly highlighted. Also, smaller fonts are now more readable.The new user interface also introduces a number of new features:• The Track Inspector is now fully customizable. A new setup panel allows each item in the Track Inspector to be made visible or hidden. Also, the order of items can be changed – individually for each track type, of course. In addition, entire setups can be stored as presets.• The Channel Strip window is also fully customizable. It also features its own setup panel and individual sections can be configured in the same way as the track inspector. Here aswell, presets can be created for later recall. You will also notice the new EQ section with its larger display area.• The Mixer window has many new functions, most of which deal with managing views, applying those to selected channels only, changing view/hide status of individual ormultiple channels. Notice the new items in the mixers common panel.Additional New Features:• Extended AudioWarp: realtime transpose with formant preservation. Solo instruments and vocals can be transposed at much higher quality and still sound natural. Just select the new "Solo” Preset in the Warp Setting menu of the sample editor.• Much-improved Audio and MIDI Hardware Setup panels. Parameters are now consolidated and better organized. Port handling has been simplified.• A new Trim tool in the key editor allows for trimming start and end for multiple events• MP3 Surround: not only, Cubase 4 provides full MP3 encoding and decoding where similar products only provide demo versions of MP3. Cubase 4 also supports MP3surround, the latest achievement in audio compression. MP3 surround is fully backwards compatible with stereo decoders and provides a convenient solution for multi-channel media distribution – for example via Internet or email.System RequirementsMacintosh Power Mac G4 1 GHz or Core Solo 1.5 GHz 512 MB RAM OS X Version 10.4 Display Resolution 1024 x 768 pixels CoreAudio compatible audio hardware DVD-ROM drive USB component port for copy protection key Internet access required for license activationWindows Pentium / Athlon 1.4 GHz 512 MB RAM Windows XP Home and XP Professional Display Resolution 1024 x 768 pixels Windows DirectX compatible audio hardware ASIO compatible audio hardware recommended for low latency performance DVD-ROM drive USB component port for copy protection key Internet access required for license activation Place a Bid!