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Steinberg’s VST Connect has been around in some form since 2012, debuting as a plug-in in Cubase 7. But with musicians, producers and indeed everyone else locked down in their respective homes due to the COVID-19 crisis, it’s never seemed as relevant as it does right now. VST Connect allows you to record a musician […]
There are many types of dynamics processor, each capable of slightly different things. The best catch-all description is that they act like automatic volume controls – they modify the dynamic (ie volume level changes over time) make-up of a sound source, generally in response to the nature of that source. To put this into context, […]
In light of COVID-19, software developers around the world are offering up free versions of their software for producers locked at home. Steinberg is doing the same for four of its products. Cubase Elements, Dorico Elements, WaveLab Elements and the Absolute Collection are available to worldwide customers, free for 60 days. It’s being labelled by […]
Cubase’s Score Editor is a great tool for turning MIDI parts into musical notation, ideal for composing and developing music that will ultimately be performed by musicians. It also lets you create parts from scratch by writing musical notation. For those au-fait with music theory, sketching out ideas in notation can be liberating. It cuts […]
Printed music, notation, scoring, ‘the dots’ – call it what you will, this method of representing music in a visual form has existed for hundreds of years, and remains the principal written language of music. Cubase has been able to convert MIDI recordings into such notation, as well as allow the user to enter music […]
It seems like only a few months ago that Cubase 10 landed, with its smartened-up interface, audio engine improvements, and so much more. But it was over a year ago, a fact that only dawned on us when Cubase 10.5 landed like an early and unexpected Christmas gift. And where the previous release focused a […]
Despite heading towards its 90th birthday and having an ever-increasing number of multi-channel upstarts snapping at its venerable heels, the stereo format remains by far the most widely used channel set-up in music-making. The simple concept of balancing a signal between a left and right sides is easy to work with, delivers a realistic sense […]
Although most often thought of as a DAW dedicated to the art of creating music, Cubase has for a long time enjoyed the power and flexibility to turn its hand to all sorts of other audio duties: idea sketching, audio editing, sound design, film and broadcast post-production, scoring and publishing and pretty much anything else […]
When tracking and mixing, there’s a standard set of processors that we’re likely to reach for: EQ certainly, compression regularly and often other tools, such as gating and limiting. Traditionally, before DAWs took over, analogue mixing consoles provided some or all of this functionality on every channel – practically all consoles include per-channel EQ and […]
Reverb is one of those effects that it’s hard to avoid. It pulls things together in a mix, giving a sense of coherence and space, and even if you’re creating a very dry, close-sounding mix, a touch of reverb is still almost unavoidable. Once upon a time, and not all that long ago really, if […]