Steinberg Cubase Elements 6

The eminently powerful collection of quality instruments and effects modifies your PC and Mac computer into your personal music production system for crafting compositions in minute detail. Cubase Elements 6 boasts all the tools of the trade with the same professional user interface and award-winning audio engine as in Steinberg's Cubase 6 flagship.

Midi-Sequencing

At the heart of MIDI sequencing in Cubase is the Key Editor: a breathtakingly powerful yet transparent tool 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, developed and taken to their full potential. Entering, cutting, moving and transposing individual notes or whole chords, editing any of the hundreds of MIDI parameters available or reworking even the most subtle nuances of a MIDI performance are just some of the tasks for which the Key Editor has been developed and refined continuously by Steinberg for over two decades. The Key Editor's Inspector provides smooth and intuitive access to the most important MIDI tools and functions, including Quantize, Transpose, Length and many more in one central spot.

Mix Like Professionals

With 24 physical inputs and outputs, 8 insert effect slots per channel, 8 FX send and return channels as well as 16 groups/busses and an unrivaled routing between audio channels, busses, groups and FX returns mean that Cubase Elements 6 is fully equipped to master even demanding situations, like the recording of a whole band.

The Score Editor

The Score Editor in Cubase Elements is a streamlined and simplified, yet powerful notation environment derived from bigger Cubase versions. Completely integrated within Cubase Essential, the Score Editor lets you view and edit music in the form of scores. A few clicks are all it takes to adapt the view to show recorded MIDI performances correctly and print them on demand for others including soloists, orchestras and choirs.

Innovative Instruments that put Creativity First

Cubase Elements 6 delivers three exceptional rich virtual instruments right out of the box. Over 550 mind-blowing presets spanning across the HALion Sonic SE virtual instrument, the Prologue synthesizer and the MPC-style Groove Agent ONE drum machine.

HALion Sonic SE is a streamlined version of HALion Sonic, Steinberg's premier VST workstation. Incorporating the same pristine audio and synth engine as its award-winning brother, HALion Sonic SE offers tight integration with Cubase Elements 6 and production-ready sounds and instruments that will truly inspire your creative work. Equipped with detailed acoustic instruments and brilliant synthesizers, the SE version is an extensive pool of sounds for everyday studio work. Intuitive handling, instant playability and VST 3.5 support make this new instrument the perfect choice for productive songwriting or just playing along.

Groove Agent ONE pairs powerful drum sampling with detailed sound shaping - seamlessly integrated into Cubase. Not only does it boast sliced loop and MPC-import but rocks right out of the box with its own custom library of only the finest acoustic, urban, hip hop and dance drum kits. Each of its virtual pads features a complete sound processing section that gives full control of textures, timbres and expressive qualities of each drum sound. Creation of custom kits with drag and drop from the MediaBay allows an extremely fluid and easy workflow.

Prologue is a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer with great sounding multi-mode variable resonance filters, powerful modulation capabilities and cranking onboard effects. Powered by VirSyn technology, this punchy virtual analog synthesizer is fed by hundreds of great sounding presets covering a wide range of sounds reaching from traditional analog to indescribable.

On-the-Fly Pitch Correction

Designed for vocal and solo instrument recordings, the new PitchCorrect VST 3 plug-in brings easy and automatic intonation control and scale correction of vocal and monophonic instrument recordings to Cubase. PitchCorrect constantly detects the pitch of the input material and immediately corrects it to match to the closest pitch of a user-specified scale, including minor, major, chromatic and custom scales.

Add Outstanding Effects to your Music

Cubase Elements 6 comes with an impressive arsenal of high-quality VST effect processors, including EQ, Dynamics, Modulation, Reverb, Filters, Distortion and special effects. Cubase Elements 6 offers a total of 33 real-time audio effects right out of the box. Each comes with great-sounding presets, which really allow experiencing the excellent quality of these effects from the first moment on.

AmpSimulator is a great sounding guitar amp and speaker simulation for quickly laying down guitar tracks without additional equipment. It features various amp and cabinet models to choose from and is also working fine for giving the bass an extra punch.

Mediabay Database for Sound Management

MediaBay is a powerful media file management system and the central place for browsing, searching, managing and categorizing any type of media file, letting you keep up-to-date with the ever-growing number of sounds, samples, loops and presets.

A user-friendly musical category search system helps finding sounds or loops fast. A Scope section features previewing options. Loops can be auditioned in the song's tempo and conveniently imported using drag-and-drop.

The Project Assistant

The Project Assistant provides a wealth of ready-made templates for different styles and scopes like recording, mixing, producing and mastering. The templates contain the number of channels, effects, dynamics, amp simulators and channel inserts - tailored to your particular needs. Creating customised user templates and integrating those into the Launch browser means recording with a DAW software and audio interface couldn't be easier.

Press Reviews

"An excellent starting place for musicians on a budget."

- PC PRO

Features and Specifications

• Based on proven Cubase technology used by professionals around the world
• Award-winning 32-bit floating-point Steinberg audio engine with flexible routing and fully automatic delay compensation
• Supports up to 64 MIDI and 48 audio tracks simultaneously in DVD quality (24-bit/96 kHz)
• Includes outstanding virtual instruments: HALion Sonic SE workstation, MPC-style Groove Agent ONE drum machine, Prologue synthesizer
• Comes ready with 33 audio effect processors, including PitchCorrect for vocal intonation correction and the great-sounding AmpSimulator
• Cross-platform 32-/64-bit for Windows and Mac OS X Intel

Please Note: Cubase 6 will only run on Windows 7 or Mac OS X 10.6