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Cubase Elements welcomes you to the world of Cubase, offering a streamlined music production environment with plenty of features that help seize the moment when musical creativity strikes. Sharing the same pristine audio quality as its larger siblings in the Cubase family, Cubase Elements provides the perfect starting point for intuitive song writing, studio-grade recordings and finalizing your mix. Do you want to elevate your sound to a new level? Cubase Elements is your next step.

Follow the flow

Cubase Elements can keep up with the pace with which your ideas flow. Whether you want to record your instruments and vocals or program cutting-edge beats, you will find all the creative tools and features in Cubase Elements that will guarantee an efficient and rewarding workflow. Improve your tracks with professional and precise editing and mixing capabilities and polish you productions with the top-notch channel strip in the integrated MixConsole — just exactly to the standards you expect from a Cubase-line product.

Get your private assistants

Composing music consists of finding an idea that you can elaborate into a full music composition. Cubase Elements makes it easy to harmonize and arrange your music with the innovative and unique Chord Pads and Arranger Track. Regardless whether you’re looking for further inspiration, a quick and easy way to play chords or try out different arrangements, Cubase Elements offers you maximum flexibility combined with a lightweight user interface to refine your ideas and get the best out of your music.

Your sound of music

Stay a step ahead of the rest with powerful instruments and awesome sounds. HALion Sonic SE, Groove Agent SE and Prologue — Cubase Elements provide a vast array of high-end sampled instruments, uplifting acoustic and electronic drums and grooves, state-of-the-art synths and experimental sound design tools. With the acclaimed VST Amp Rack tone suite all the amps you need stand right by your side to give your music that very individual tone.

Top 10 key features:

Award-winning 32-bit floating-point Steinberg audio engine, flexible routing and full automatic delay compensation
Simultaneous playback of 48 audio tracks, 64 MIDI tracks and up to 24 physical inputs and outputs
MixConsole for pro mixing desk experience and integrated high-end channel strip with dynamics and EQ
Three outstanding virtual instruments comprising the HALion Sonic SE workstation, Groove Agent SE drum machine and Prologue synthesizer
Over 40 audio effect processors, including high-end VST Dynamics, Pitch Correct for vocal intonation correction and the VST Amp Rack guitar tone suite
Powerful sample editor covering all common editing tasks and providing creative freedom while editing audio
Chord Track and Chord Pads for playfully and creatively composing with chords
Comprehensive content library with thousands of instrument sounds, MIDI construction loops and audio samples
Basic score editing features for music notation and composition
Full upward compatibility with Cubase Pro and Cubase Artist for seamless upgrading to the next level

Cubase Elements eXTended:

• Number of audio tracks up to unlimited
• Number of MIDI tracks up to unlimited
• Number for instrument tracks up to unlimited
• Physical inputs and outputs up to 256
• Group channels up to 256
• FX return channels up to 64
• Number insers up to 16
• Number of included audio effect plugins up to 64
• Max samplerate up to 384 kHz
• OMF, AAF, MXF import/export
• Nuendo project import
• 5.1 surround
• ARA2 extension support