Cubase

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On-premise music production software

About Cubase

Cubase is an on-premise music production software designed to help businesses produce new tracks, modify audio files, and implement custom workflows to streamline various operations across projects via a unified portal. The platform includes a quantize panel, which enables users to manage pitch, tempo, distribution, and arrangement of audio across multiple tracks using warp markers.

The chord pads in Cubase allows musicians to manage composition parameters to edit chords, jam with chords and patterns, play tracks using MIDI controller, and optimize chords’ performance by modifying tension, voicings, and other factors. It offers a host of features such as spectral comparison, scale assistant, sample tracks, colorized mixer channels, batch exporter, notepad, latency monitoring, and more. Composers can also create personalized workspaces using custom sizes, position, and windows and dialogs to manage multiple projects.

The built-in project browser allows music creators to view and edit available projects, events, and tracks and find and organize content using the MediaBay tool. Cubase also lets users hide or show tracks and export FX, groups, MIDI, audio, and video tracks into archives.


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Value for Money
4.4/5
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4.1/5
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Robert
Robert
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  • Industry: Media Production
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

A real audio DAW workhorse

Reviewed on 2021/02/10

I have used Cubase for years. It's a no messing, straight to it kind of DAW, whether recording/editi...

I have used Cubase for years. It's a no messing, straight to it kind of DAW, whether recording/editing audio or creating music/sound design via MIDI. The built in synthesis is good, the generic plugins are great (Reverb and compression in particular)

Pros

Cubase is a solid and reliable sequencer. The audio engine excellent and so responsive I frequently edit clips while I'm actually recording.

Cons

The only niggle I have with Cubase is the price. the Pro version is around £500 and upgrades are also a bit pricey.

Alternatives Considered

Pro Tools

Reasons for Choosing Cubase

I switched as Cubase was recommended soon discovered it was easier to use.

Switched From

Adobe Audition

Reasons for Switching to Cubase

Cubase offers all the features of ProTools without the massive price tag.
Jeremy
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  • Industry: Media Production
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Cubase: The Industry Leader

Reviewed on 2022/05/20

I've been using Cubase (and Nuendo) since 2000. I've tried moving to other DAWs, but nothing comes...

I've been using Cubase (and Nuendo) since 2000. I've tried moving to other DAWs, but nothing comes close. I've never used another DAW where I can punch in and out during recording without skipping a beat. The audio engine is amazing, and the robust tools and including effects make it a must.

Pros

Where to begin? In a perfect world, Cubase would be the industry standard over Pro Tools. While Pro Tools was struggling to have plugin delay compensation, Cubase was introducing amazing features like VariAudio (manipulate and correct vocal pitch & timing), Audio Quantize, Folder Tracks, Multiple Take lanes with Comping Tools, and so much more. The MIDI editing is still unrivalled, and I still find any other DAW lacking in the overall feature set.

Cons

Cubase can feel a little bloated at times, with one of the worst launch times on the market. Would be nice to be able to rename Markers on the timeline, but not a big deal.

Alternatives Considered

Pro Tools

Reasons for Choosing Cubase

Cubase offered more features and cross-platform support.

Reasons for Switching to Cubase

Pro Tools used to cost $40,000 back in y2k. Cubase could get you a low latency system for a fraction of the price, with features most Pro Tools users could only dream of.
Christopher
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  • Industry: Music
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Cubase???

Reviewed on 2023/11/21

Wasn’t a bad experience just didn’t feel pro level to me and sound card is not that great

Wasn’t a bad experience just didn’t feel pro level to me and sound card is not that great

Pros

I liked that it was super easy functionality

Cons

It’s pretty basic features and you would need more audio editing vsts to get the quality you want

Jason
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  • Industry: Music
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Cubase is a Modern DAW That Can Run Any Professional Studio

Reviewed on 2022/01/04

Cubase has been my DAW of choice for 20 years. I've never found another DAW that blends ease-of-use...

Cubase has been my DAW of choice for 20 years. I've never found another DAW that blends ease-of-use with professional specs and power so well.

Pros

Cubase makes many features that were often difficult to implement (Aux/FX/Groups sends) much easier to use. Cubase's GUI is clean and clear. Cubase's Control Room turns Cubase into a fully-featured mixing console main section, with Cue Sends and all sorts of processing/metering/monitoring control that is available only for monitoring.
Automation is easy to implement. Zooming in and out, vertically and horizontally both in the Edit window and MixConsole is wide open and completely customizable. Colourizing and the option to import custom track icons makes identification at-a-glance a breeze. Export Mixdown options are incredibly variable and easy to implement multiple mixdown formats (incl. MP3 and FLAC) as well as stems.

Cons

Cubase's GUI windows seem to have trouble taking on the modern paradigm of fullscreen apps, and windows and viewing parameters often reset themselves. The GUI coding feels old.

lucky
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  • Industry: Entertainment
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Since 2020, I have been using Cubase. Everything I needed to create a fully structured movie...

Reviewed on 2022/08/05

I've been using Cubase for years. It's a straightforward DAW that can be used for both audio...

I've been using Cubase for years. It's a straightforward DAW that can be used for both audio recording and editing and MIDI-based music and sound production. The built-in synthesis and generic plugins are excellent (Reverb and compression in particular)

Pros

most notable characteristics? Too numerous to list them all. However, it's fantastic to be able to create my own unique work flow with many screens that can be saved for quick recall. When it comes to audio recording of vocals and instruments, VST plug-ins, midi, audio to video control with visual monitoring, and much more, Cubase Pro can handle it all. You can import and export certain tracks, as well as digitally or in real time mix your project. Hans Zimmer uses a system that provides all the information you require.

Cons

Despite having several editions for all budgets, Cubase is still a pricey digital audio workstation that not everyone can afford. For the price of the Cubase components version, we could easily get a more sophisticated version of another daw.

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Cubase FAQs

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Cubase offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$121.38
  • Free Trial: Not Available

Cubase offers a free trial for 30 days, after which it is available across three pricing tiers, details of which are outlined below- Cubase Pro 11 - $706.52 Cubase Artist 11 - $403.3 Cubase Elements 11 - $121.38

Cubase has the following typical customers:

2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Cubase supports the following languages:

French, Portuguese

Cubase supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

We do not have any information about what integrations Cubase has

Cubase offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support

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