![]() ![]() The Project window now has Zones so you can see multiple sections from a single window. There’s a ton of bundled content including loops, grooves and instrument libraries, and these can be moved to a secondary drive if preferred. The full version comes as a box, presumably because of the need to include the USB eLicenser, but upgrades are available as downloads. I’m reviewing Cubase Pro 9 but many of the new features apply to Artist, and some to Elements as well. 5 release, there’s more than enough to warrant the update from 8.5 (priced at a reasonable £80/$100) and even updating from much older, entry-level versions carries fairly tempting pricing too. As ever, the older your version the more new stuff you will get by updating, and the pricing structure generally reflects this. Such is the case with Cubase 9, which sees some important and welcome changes from version 8.5. Cubase updates tend not to be wildly revolutionary but evolutionary, improving the tool set and user experience in careful and considered ways. ![]() One of its greatest strengths, in my opinion, has been its focus on maintaining usability while adding inexorably more features, something which not many developers always get right. They more or less invented plugins, and had one of the first applications that could multitrack digital audio. Steinberg has always been a pioneering company. And that’s where we are now: light years ahead of the early 2000s in terms of what we can do but also what we expect our systems to be able to do. I stuck with it through the total rewrite that was SX1, some turbulent years as Windows and Mac OS X underwent rapid changes, and eventually into the period when the technology had essentially settled down. Not as long as some people who go back to when it was essentially one of the first MIDI sequencers in existence, but pretty far. I have been using Cubase as my primary DAW since the days of version VST5. ![]()
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