Steinberg New Releases | Dark Planet VST Sound Instrument Set

Dark Planet is the new VST Sound Instrument Set launched by Steinberg. It is loaded with hundreds of creepy sounds, shattering loops and eerie instruments including leads, basses, drums or effects. Steinberg’s Dark Planet VST Sound Instrument Set is suitable for cinematic scores and also for industrial music productions or dark ambient tracks. The integrated MorphFilter and the onboard effects provide everything needed to add spine-tingling ingredients to your productions and fuel your fantasies with the gloom of the Dark Planet.

Cubase 6.5 Trial Now Available (Free Download)

Steinberg has announced that Cubase 6.5 and Cubase Elements 6 are now available as free trial versions. The trials come with the same range of functionality as the full versions, including all instruments, effects and sounds and also may be used without limitations for 30 days.

Steinberg introduces the CMC USB Controller Series

Steinberg unveils some new USB controllers that can be individually combined to form a Cubase Control System. Comprising six slim units, the Steinberg CMC Controller Series has all the control options that you need – whether you are recording, editing and mixing music, creating beats or performing live. Each of the six slim-sized controllers is unique in its own way and features a dedicated set of rotary encoders, touch faders or pads designed to take hands-on control of a specific section in Cubase.

Steinberg introduces Steinberg Elements Pack

Steinberg announces Steinberg Elements Pack, their software bundle with Cubase Elements 6 and WaveLab Elements 7. Steinberg Elements Pack is trying to put in one place about everything you need for music production and audio processing at an exceptional price

Steinberg Cubase Elements 6 turns your computer into a fully featured music production system. Its composing, recording and mixing tools are based on proven Cubase 6 technologies that professionals rely on worldwide. Cubase Elements 6 features 33 audio effect processors, including PitchCorrect for easy and automatic vocal correction. With the Groove Agent ONE beat production instrument, the Prologue synthesizer and the HALion Sonic SE workstation instrument, Cubase Elements 6 offers more than 550 instruments and sounds to supercharge your creativity.

Steinberg WaveLab Elements 7 combines state-of-the-art audio technology from WaveLab 7 with a streamlined workflow and a comprehensive host of professional tools, delivering uncompromising quality when it comes to audio editing, restoration and podcasting. WaveLab Elements 7 also features an array of VST 3 plug-ins such as StudioEQ and VST Dynamics, superbly complemented by a premium restoration suite by Sonnox.

Steinberg introduces UR824 and UR28M, two new audio usb interfaces

Steinberg announces today that it has two new audio interfaces in its hardware products family. Steinberg UR824 and Steinberg UR28M brings transparent audio quality, high-speed USB 2.0 connectivity alongside advanced technologies such as DSP-powered reverb and channel strip effects with zero-latency monitoring.

Steinberg UR824 and Steinberg UR28M audio interfaces share a host of quality features, including state-of-the-art 24-bit/96 kHz A/D and D/A converters and Yamaha’s acclaimed D-Pre Class-A microphone preamps – a strong combination when it comes to crisp and crystal-clear audio quality. Plus, the DSP-powered dspMixFx technology boasts latency-free monitoring in conjunction with the included REV-X reverb and Sweet Sport Morphing Channel Strip effects. And with the included Cubase AI 6 version you can start recording music right away.

Steinberg introduces for SAE students Steinberg LE Pack SAE Edition

Steinberg announces that Cubase LE 6 and Wavelab LE 7 will become a welcome profile package for more than 1600 new students of SAE (School of Audio Engineering) in 26 school facilities across Europe. The offer from Steinberg is named Steinberg LE Pack SAE Edition and gathers, as it says, the light editions of Cubase 6 Music Production Software and Wavelab 7 Audio Editing Software.

“It is eminently important to us that our students learn the established methods and tools of trade. Steinberg’s software most certainly falls into that category. We are therefore pleased that our audio engineer students now receive the Steinberg LE Pack SAE Edition here in Europe. Especially Cubase, with its many flexible tools, is suitable for the different working methods and helps our students make good use of their creativity in the production process, right from the start,” commented Rüdi Grieme, director of operations for SAE Europe.

Coming Autumn 2011 from Steinberg … New Controller for Cubase ?

We don’t know what is it and we don’t know when exactly it will come … We are sure that the launch date is near because it is September 1st today so it is autumn … And, yeah, it is coming from Steinberg.

Updates | Steinberg updates Cubase to the version 6.0.3 (Maintenance Update)

Steinberg announced today that Cubase has reached version 6.0.3. It is more about a maintenance update rather than a major one. Cubase 6, Cubase Artist 6 and Cubase Elements 6 – all are now available as version 6.0.3 and can be downloaded from Steinberg Site.

VST (Virtual Studio Technology) is 15YO

VST – Virtual Studio Technology describes a protocol that makes possible the simulation of traditional recording / music production studios with software by using DSP / Digital Signal Processing. Practically is an interface between audio synthesizer and effects plugins and hard disk recording systems. The technology as the interface and also SDK was developed and released by Steinberg in 1996, exactly the year of the birth of Cubase 3.02. The first available VST formats was included with Cubase (Espacial, Choirus, Stereo Echo and Auto Panner). The VST interface as tech specs was updated to version 2.0 in 1999 and a major update was done in 2008 when was upgraded to version 3.0. Now we talk about version 3.5 since february 2011 and I have a feeling that the road does not come to an end yet.

So … if Steinberg gave birth to VST in 1996, the world’s leading audio interface is celebrating these days 15 year of existence.

Music Production 2 Go | Zoom R8

The guys from Zoom Corporation took one of the best product they sale – R24 – and made it smaller for an ultra-portable music production solution. We have now R8 – The Mobile Studio in just 257(W) x 190(D) x 51(H) mm. Like Zoom R24, the R8 combines four production tools in one versatile device. In addition to being an 8-track recorder that uses SD memory, the R8 is an audio interface, a DAW control surface and a sampler complete with drum pads and a rhythm machine.