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The table below shows a comparison between the versions of Cubase, It is reproduced from a document created by the creators of this industry-standard brand of sequencer. There is an update to this page pending. The excellent budget version, Cubase SE is now available separately. The mid-range version, Cubase SL is a very capable package at an affordable price. Cubase SX is the fully featured professional version of the application. |
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| Feature | Cubase SE | Cubase SL 2.0 | Cubase SX 2.0 |
| Native audio - no additional DSP hardware required | x | x | x |
| Simultaneous playback of hundreds of audio tracks | 48 | x | x |
| Unlimited number of MIDI tracks | x | x | x |
| Physical Inputs/Outputs | 8 | 128 | 256 |
| Inserts | 5 | 5 | 6+2 |
| Group channels | 8 | 128 | 256 |
| FX channels | 8 | 128 | 256 |
| VST Instrument Slots | 16 | 16 | 64 |
| MIDI insert plugins | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| Rewire 2 support (number of channels) | 8 | 256 | 256 |
| Adaptive and configurable track mixer | o | o | x |
| Number of mixer views | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Extended Mixer view | o | o | x |
| Automation modes | touch fader | touch fader | touch fader, x-over, autolatch, trim, overwrite |
| New VST 2.3 audio engine | o | x | x |
| Surround: True multichannel audio path | o | o | x |
| 24-bit/96 kHz audio resolution | x | x | x |
| 32-bit floating point audio resolution | o | x | x |
| Unlimited Undo and Redo functions | 1 | x | x |
| Offline Process History | single undo | for built-in audio processes | for built-in audio processes and all plug-ins |
| VST System Link | x | x | x |
| New Look & Feel | o | x | x |
| Configurable Toolbar & Track Controls | o | x | x |
| VST Connections Window | o | x | x |
| User-Definable window layouts | o | x | x |
| Project Browser | o | x | x |
| FX Return Channels | o | x | x |
| Video Thumbnail track and preview | x | x | x |
| Recording Modes: Mix, Overwrite, Normal, Merge, Stacked | excl. stacked | x | x |
| Editors: Key, Drum, List, SysEx, Score | x | x | x |
| Logical Editor | o | x | x |
| Audio/Tempo analysis and Audio/Groove analysis | x | x | x |
| Slice & Stretch for audio loops, automatic tempo matching | x | x | x |
| Professional Score layout and printing functions | o | o | x |
| Improved handling of multiple parts (audio and MIDI) | o | x | x |
| Musical Timebase | x | x | x |
| Linear Timebase | o | x | x |
| Soft Quantize | x | x | x |
| Time Warp Tool | o | x | x |
| Spectral Analysis | o | o | x |
| Statistics functions | o | o | x |
| Pitch Shifting/Time
Stretching algorithm |
3 modes | 3 modes | 3 modes plus MPEX |
| Dithering |
Apogee UV22 | Apogee UV22 | Apogee UV22/UV22HR |
| User-definable macros | o | x | x |
| Pool import/export | o | x | x |
| Cubase VST 5.x song import | x | x | x |
| Freeze for VST Instruments | o | x | x |
| Hardware Controller Support | Houston, Generic & Tascam US-428/224 only | x | x |
| Supports LTB for high-precision MIDI Timing (w/ Midex 8) | x | x | x |
| MTC/MMC support |
send MIDI clock only | x | x |
| CD audio grabbing | x | x | x |
| Full MP3 Fraunhofer Encoding | available as update | available as update | x |
| Windows Media WMA Pro surround encoding | o | o | x |
| A1, LM7, VB1 VST instruments included | o | x | x |
All information subject to change without notice. All rights reserved. Steinberg Media Technolgies GmbH, September 2003
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