Description
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Cubase 15 is the ultimate music production solution, designed to elevate creativity and streamline your workflow. From composition to mixing, it offers an extensive suite of tools suitable for beginners and professionals alike. The new Melodic Pattern Sequencer enables the creation of expressive melodic patterns with monophonic and polyphonic modes, custom scales, step input, shape generators, and a powerful randomiser. Advanced Expression Maps enhance articulation control with deep integration into the Key and Score Editors, while AI-powered Stem Separation simplifies remixing, rebalancing, and sampling. Automation has been refined to prioritise last-touched parameters, allowing lightning-fast editing. The redesigned Hub offers a smoother project startup with previews, filters, and audio setup tools. Cubase 15 also includes fresh synth libraries, six new modulators, UltraShaper dynamics processing, and real-time Pitch Shifting. With new drum kits, loop packs, Chord Pad presets, Omnivocal Beta, and improvements across Groove Agent SE 6 and Sampler Track, inspiration is always at your fingertips. Full-screen macOS support, scalable plugins, and enhanced Score Editor workflows ensure an immersive, professional, and highly flexible music production environment.
Key Features
- Melodic Pattern Sequencer:
Create complex melodic patterns with monophonic and polyphonic modes, step input, scales, shape generators, and a deep randomiser for limitless creative possibilities. - AI-Powered Stem Separation:
Quickly extract stems from mixed audio for remixing, sampling, and editing, giving you full control over individual elements in your tracks. - Advanced Automation Tools:
New shortcuts prioritise your last-touched parameters, simplifying automation workflows and allowing for precise and rapid adjustments during mixing.
Enhanced Composition and Sound Design:
Cubase 15 introduces modernised Expression Maps, fresh writing room synths, and six new modulators to expand your creative toolkit. Chord Pads offer 30 ready-to-play presets across genres such as jazz, pop, and soul, while new pattern presets for basslines, leads, chords, and arpeggios jumpstart your compositions. The integration of Groove Agent SE 6 and the Sampler Track Hot Swap functionality makes drum and sample editing faster and more intuitive, enhancing both live performance and studio production workflows.
Professional Mixing and Editing:
The new UltraShaper plug-in delivers transient shaping, clip limiting, and EQ sculpting for polished, professional-level sound control. Pitch Shifter allows real-time pitch adjustment with formant preservation and stereo unlinking. Automation improvements prioritise last-touched parameters for quicker edits. Track Controls now let you manage volume and pan directly from the track view, while native full-screen support on macOS creates an immersive editing environment for focused work on your projects.
Inspiration and Workflow Enhancements:
The redesigned Hub ensures smoother project startup with resizable sections, audio setup, project previews, and advanced search and filter options. Songstarter Packs, new drum kits, loops, and Omnivocal Beta offer endless creative inspiration. The updated Score Editor and DAWproject format enhance notation and collaboration, allowing seamless sharing across all editions of Cubase and supported DAWs. Scalable plugins and pinch-to-zoom gestures on macOS further improve workflow efficiency, keeping your creativity at the forefront.
Specifications
- Supported operating systems (Windows): 64‑bit Windows 10 (version 22H2 or newer) or 64‑bit Windows 11 (version 24H2 or newer)
- Supported operating systems (macOS): macOS 14 or later (e.g., macOS Sequoia, Sonoma, Tahoe)
- CPU (Windows): Intel Core i5 (8th generation) or AMD Ryzen 3000-series, or equivalent multi-core processor
- CPU (macOS): Intel Core i5 (late 2018 or newer) or Apple silicon (M-series)
- RAM: Minimum 8 GB
- Hard-disk / Storage: Approximately 84 GB free space recommended (some sources list ~60 GB minimum for core install)
- Display resolution (minimum): 1440 × 900 pixels (100% UI scaling)
- Graphics (Windows): Graphics card with native Windows 10 support (Microsoft Basic Display Driver not recommended); recommended AMD “R or RX” series or NVIDIA 700 series or newer
- Graphics (macOS): GPU must support Metal (modern graphics card supported by macOS)
- Audio hardware: OS-compatible audio hardware; ASIO-compatible audio interface recommended for low-latency performance (Windows)
- Internet connection: Required for license activation, account registration, and installer download
- Plugin support: VST‑3 (64-bit) supported; 32-bit and VST2 plugins not officially supported. On Apple silicon, VST2 plugins may work via Rosetta, without official support
