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.

Steinberg announces Nuendo Live

Steinberg announces Nuendo Live, an advanced recording software dedicated to live engineers. Steinberg Nuendo Live makes recording sessions a whole lot easier by combining the usability, the stability and the audio quality of well known parent DAW. Steinberg Nuendo Live comes with a single window very intuitive user interface which keeps you focused on your recording session. Transport control, marker insertion, recording options – everything is close at hand and can be accessed with just one click. And the convenient Record Panel gives you an instant overview on all relevant parameters, even in hectic situations.

“Nuendo Live is your devoted recording software application for professionals in the live recording industry,” said Timo Wildenhain, product marketing manager for Nuendo. “Ushering in a new product era with Nuendo Live, we at Steinberg continue to pursue our goal to conceive and design tools and technologies tailored to the specific requirements of our customers.”

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.

Steinberg News | Halion has been updated to version 4.0.1

Steinberg released the 4.0.1 maintenance update to its VST sampler and sound creation system, HALion 4. The update resolves several issues and improves the overall stability of HALion 4

What’s new in version 4.0.1 of Steinberg Halion

Issues that occurred when individual MegaTrig modules of a program were disabled have been corrected.
An issue that appeared when undoing paste on a program that is already assigned to a slot has been corrected.
CoreAudio2ASIO has been updated to correct issues with some USB devices.
Missing presets of the REVerence reverb have been added.
Issues when loading programs into the program table after selecting something within the program tree have been corrected.
Issues within FL Studio 10 that cause the message “There was an error getting the state of the VST 3 pluggin HALion 4. The state wasn’t saved” have been corrected.
Issues that occurred when “Auto Visibility” was enabled have been corrected.
Changes on the program layer (level/pan/tune) won’t affect any programs in subsequent slots any more.

Steinberg News | Sequel 3 has been released

Steinberg announced today that Sequel 3 the latest version of their popular music creation and performance software is available. Steinberg Sequel 3 comes with new creative tools and an impressive collection of quality loops and instruments. The new Beat Page harnesses the power of the Groove Agent ONE drum station and the Beat Designer step sequencer to provide direct access to floor-filling drum sounds and easy programming of rhythmical patterns – all in one spot. Thanks to the latest Virtual Studio Technology (VST), Sequel 3 also includes first-class instruments and effects, such as HALion Sonic SE with more than 500 sounds ranging from funk-drenched guitars to majestic strings over to evolving pads. Plus, the included VST Amp Rack SE turns the computer into a flexible guitar tone suite that covers everything from vintage smooth to earth shuddering crunch sounds. Best of all, the enhanced performance mode in Sequel 3 allows for on-the-fly arrangements and intuitive live remixes.

IOSONO announces special offer on Spatial Audio Workstation 2 Upmix

Right in time for the release of Steinberg Nuendo 5.5, IOSONO is offering a special discount on its production software SAW 2 Upmix! Until October 31st, 2011 all customers can get the full version of the Spatial Audio Workstation 2 Upmix! at the reduced educational pricing of EUR 369 and save EUR 200 on the standard pricing.

“The Spatial Audio Workstation 2 Upmix! is the ideal tool for fast and easy creation of immersive surround sound experiences,” says Katja Lehmann, Junior Marketing Manager at IOSONO. “We’ve received very positive feedback from audio professionals regarding our spatial sound solutions. With this offer we want to give sound designers and mixers the chance to enjoy the advantages of object based surround mixing without the usual investment you would expect from such an advanced solution.”