GEAR REVIEW
STEINBERG CUBASE 10 PRO | Michael Hodge
well as student pricing on the Steinberg online sidechaining, EQ, De-esser, Envelope shaper,
shop. If you choose to download Cubase you Saturation, and 3 different Limiters. They can
• New Channelstrip will need to purchase a Steinberg e-Licenser be dragged into any order. On the right side of
• Groove agent SE 5 Dongle. If you purchase the boxed version the DAW you will notice that getting to the VST
the Dongle is included. There’s a Media Pack plug-ins is more intuitive in the Media Rack. You
Physical installer available too, if you have a can choose to view GUI thumbnails of all the
slow Internet connection. virtual instruments and FX instead of just their
KEY FEATURES
• Audio Alignment
• Advanced Side chaining
names. You can also create them for third party
• VariAudio 3
IN USE: plug-ins by clicking a little camera button at the
First you need to install the Steinberg Download top of the GUI. Once you try it it’s very cool!
Assistant. It’s then a simple download of about After choosing the instrument you want, just
Steinberg has raised the bar once again with 22 GB. After installing Cubase 10, I opened drag and drop it to create a new instrument
Cubase 10. There are lots of great new features the Steinberg library manager. I noticed some track. There are 5GB of brand new sounds
making this a significant upgrade from 9.5. This of the instruments were actually located on my and loops created by several well known hot
release covers all Cubase versions. Cubase is boot drive so I moved everything to one of my producers. Lots here to inspire creativity.
one of the top DAWs of choice among tons of extension SSD drives dedicated for sounds. I professional producers and musicians. This recommend doing that. Starting with the Audio Groove Agent SE 5 looks cooler and there is
new version also added Film scoring support engine, Cubase can now record 32- bit integer also built-in support for MPE controllers like the
seemingly closing the gap between Cubase and 64-bit floating point audio files with support new ROLI multi-touch keyboards. All eleven
& Nuendo. for 5.1 mixes. Visually, the first thing I noticed included synths seem more responsive on my
was that the interface looks very sharp on my MAC and maybe it’s something with the new
OUT OF THE BOX: retina display. They have also added a lot of audio engine. Everything sounds more like a
Cubase 10 is available in three product ranges: Drag and Drop features. Secondly in version 10 record if you know what I mean. There are lots
Pro, Artist and Elements. You can download the channel strip has a lot of new features. of great sound libraries included, ranging from
• 5 GB of new sounds
them directly from the Steinberg site or from
Soul to Hip Hop to EDM. One of the most fun
any of the online resellers and brick & mortar Channel Strip has: improved Metering, a things for composing is Chord Pads and Chord
stores. There are multiple upgrade paths as Noise gate, choice of 3 Compressors with Assistant Proximity Mode. Chord Assist will
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May 2019
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