1996
Up to 32 tracks of Digital Audio. Up to 128 realtime EQs.Professional Effects Rack with 4 multi-effect processors. Plug in Interface for external Plug-ins, allowing external audio technology to be integrated into the Cubase environment. Professional Score Printing, up to 60 staves per page, 8-voice Polyphony.

Cubase VST3.5 Windows

1997 — Windows Cubase VST provided up to 32 tracks of digital audio, 128 Equalizers in real time, a fully equipped effects rack with four multi-effects processors, a master section and an open PlugIn interface for additional real time effects and mastering tools. VST for Windows also supported Active Movie compatible PlugIns.

Cubase VST3.5.5

1998 Other new features include:

Updated implementation of the DirectX PlugIns which allows you to organize the list of installed PlugIns according to personal preferences. Support for Recycle Export Files (.REX-files). This allows the use of ‘recycled’ sample loops right in VST audio tracks without using a dedicated hardware sampler. VST Audio Engine can now be disabled while VST is running (from within the Audio-System Menu) or by launching the program while holding the Shift key, this is also used in schools

Cubase VST24 3.6

1998 96 tracks, Submixers, ReWire, 8 FX sends and eight Aux. VST/24 3.6 supports the entire functionality of Yamaha’s DSP Factory card

Cubase VST24 3.7

1999

Cubase VST24 4.0 Macintosh

1998 Macintosh only.

Cubase VST24 4.0 now offers 96 tracks of 24 bit, 96kHz digital audio with Digidesign® Pro Tools 24(TM) digital audio hardware systems.

Cubase VST24 4.1 Macintosh

Cubase V4.1 – Mac

1999 Macintosh only. Introduced VST 2.0, ASIO 2.0, DSP Factory support, TDM support and more. In addition, the Cubase VST/24 Mixer/EQ section included an extension with 5 new real-time processing modules – Compressor, Limiter, Auto Gate, Auto Limit and Soft Clip. A number of VST elements could also now be controlled remotely via external devices such as the Yamaha 01-V.

Cubase VST32 5.0

2000

Cubase VST32 5.1

2001

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Features for Cubase VST 5.0 include:

Cubase’s LTB * -(Linear Time Base) technology from Steinberg provides precision MIDI timing. Used in conjunction with the new Midex8 USB MIDI Interface, Cubase VST 5.0 offers accuracy, down to 300 microseconds.

Cubase VST 5.0 offers a wide range of Cubase VST FX-processors. The new Cubase FX-rack hosts new control elements and the new Cubase channel EQs can now either be edited graphically or with the familiar virtual pots.

The new Cubase VST MIDI Track Mixer offers VST-style control over any connected MIDI gear. Cubase VST 5.0′s editing resolution of up to 15380 ppq coupled with the new Groove Control browser allows for realtime, precise positioning of audio events and makes for ultra-fine MIDI groove shaping.

Cubase Custom Window Sets -Now users can save their favorite Cubase work mode including the position of their Cubase windows and settings. Users can then recall a saved Window Set either through menu or key commands.

Cubase Track Folders – Managing Cubase VST windows has never been easier. Cubase  5.0′s Arrange Window now features Track Folders where users can put an infinite number of MIDI or audio tracks.

Cubase Drag and Drop Capability -New Cubase VST drag-and-drop features enhance the handling of musical elements. Single notes, phrases, parts,groups of parts or even entire ranges can be selected, moved or copied from window to window within the program or even to the desktop.

Cubase SX offers the following new Cubase functions and Cubase technologies:

• Cubase SX offers both Windows XP and Mac OS X support
• Cubase SX new user interface
• Cubase SX offers graphic automation of all parameters
• Cubase SX offers 5.1 surround mixing
• Cubase SX offers musical real-time MIDI processing plus a complete set of virtual instruments
• Cubase SX uses a new “Nuendo based” Audio Engine and a New Audio Editing features by the Nuendo development team
• Cubase SX includes Waldorf synthesizer technology, SPL De-Esser, Quadra Fuzz by Craig Anderton
• Cubase SX offers a wide palette of virtual effect processors
• Cubase SX features unlimited Undo/Redo plus Edit History
• Cubase SX 24 Bit / 96 kHz recording and many more!

Cubase V2.8 – Windows

1996

The Arrange Window was redesigned.

Features included the Interactive Phrase Synthesizer, CueTrax and StyleTrax: the “virtual Band”.

Cubase Audio 1.6 Windows

1996

Cubase Audio 1.6 supported the hard disk recording functions of Session8 and Yamaha’s CBX D3/D5 Cubase Audio supported Digidesign’s new AudioMedia III PCI card. Used in conjunction with AudioMedia III Cubase Audio gave 8 audio tracks, EQ and automation.

Cubase Audio 3.0 TDM for Macintosh

1996

Cubase Audio 3.0 TDM had up to 16 Audio Tracks with TDM Support for up to 48 Physical Audio Tracks.

Cubase Audio 3.0 TDM contained all the new features of Cubase Score 2.0. It also had OMS II Support and MovieManager Support.

Cubase Audio XT 3.0

1996

Cubase Score 3.0

1996

April 1990

Cubase Audio

1991 – Macintosh

Cubase 3.0 Atari

1992

Cubase for Windows

1992

Cubase Score for Windows

1993 Cubase Score is released for Windows offering Key, List, Logical, Drum, and, of course, score editing and printing facilities. A GM/GS Editor is also included.

Cubase For Atari – Monochrome monitor

April 1989 — Originally called Cubit, but changed to Cubase due to copyright reasons, this was the much awaited succesor to Pro-24. Cubase for Atari was MIDI only and ran on the Atari 520ST and Atari 1040ST. Although it would run on a colour screen the best resolution was obtained by using the SM 124 monochrome monitor which gave, for its time, an impressive resolution of 640×400

The main innovation of Cubase for the Atari was the graphic arrange page. The Arrange Page, since copied by just about every other similar product, allowed for the graphic representation of the composition using a vertical list of tracks and a horizontal timeline.

1990 — Cubase 1.0 is released for the Apple Macintosh

While MIDI is a fairly ubiquitous standard for representation of digital music, there is no broadly accepted standard for the interchange of complete projects containing both MIDI and audio between Cubase and other competing recording/editing software (e.g. Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Digital Performer, or Cakewalk), so while actual pure recorded audio information can be exchanged, it is hard to import a whole project (with specific edits, instrument information and automation) in its native format from Cubase to another application and vice versa. The cross-platform OMFI format (which is supported by Cubase SX) resolves this issue to some extent.

Steinberg’s Cubase (at first briefly known as ‘Cubit’) started life on the Atari ST in 1989, as the successor Sequencer to Steinberg’s professional sequencer “Pro 24″ – it was a complete software re-write. Cubase’s most obvious benefit over Pro 24 was its vastly superior arrange page — in fact, Cubase’s arrange page is now widely regarded as the first sequencer to ‘get it right’, and its paradigm was later wisely incorporated into virtually all the major sequencers (for example, Logic).

However, as the Atari market slowly diminished, Cubase was ported to the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms and subsequent versions introduced features for recording raw audio (Circa late 1992). This porting re-invigorated the Mac sequencer developers, and as time passed, they began to gradually catch-up with their European challengers.

The original Cubase used its own operating system called MROS (MIDI Real-time Operating System) which ran on top of the computer’s own operating system. MROS did not initially work well on Windows 3.0, which was not intended for real-time applications. However, modern operating systems are designed to support multimedia applications, so modern versions of Cubase no longer use MROS.

The release of Cubase in 1993 on the Atari Falcon was a breakthrough in DSP software technology as realtime manipulation of audio was possible without the assistance of additional processor cards, as was the case with the more costly Pro Tools and other similar systems.