CUBASE 10: THE CM GUIDE

Steinberg celebrate three decades of MIDI and audio mastery with the release of Cubase version 10. Let’s take a look at the best new features

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Computer technology speeds ahead at a furious pace. In an industry where the shelf lives of new products are often measured in months, 30 years is an eternity.

Yet that’s how long Cubase has been around. Initially released for the Atari ST platform back in 1989, Cubase was the follow-up to Steinberg’s Pro 24 – also for the Atari – and Pro 16 before it (initially released for the Commodore 64).

Back then, Cubase was designed to allow musicians to sequence their MIDI hardware – a task at which the current version of the program still excels. Always on the move, within a few years, the company would add audio recording and eventually spearhead the shared plugin format with VST effects and instruments.

This constant evolution and refinement continues with the newly-released Cubase Pro 10, which sees massive improvements to nearly every aspect of the program, plus a few new tricks besides.

Cubase’s already excellent pitch/time manipulation, VariAudio, gets a major brush-up, and snapshots have finally been added to the MixConsole, which also now sports built-in latency monitoring. A new Time Alignment feature will keep your tracks in lock-step, and you can slather on some vintage vibe with new retro reverb impulses for REVerence.

And that’s just the start. Groove Agent SE gets a once-over, and there’s a new distortion plugin, too. Over the next few pages, we’re going to walk you through all of these features and many more, so dust off your dongle and let’s round the ’Bases!