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Cubase is a computer program for music production. The program offers recording, producing and mixing of sounds in order to make music production for distribution on CDs or the internet. Most of the facilities in recording studios are now available for computer owners using Cubase or other similar products.

Cubase is a series of MIDI, music sequencer and digital audio editing computer applications (commonly known as a DAW - Digital Audio Workstation), created by the German firm Steinberg. Its first version, which ran on the Atari ST computer, was released in 1989.

Operation

Cubase creates projects which allow the operator to edit MIDI files, raw audio tracks, and other associated information like lyrics, and to present them in a range of formats including musical scores, editing console, event lists, etc. The operator can also mix the various tracks down into a stereo .wav file ready to be burned onto a CD in Red Book format or .mp3 burnt to CD or DVD as files or to be published on the web.

While MIDI is a fairly ubiquitous standard for representation of digital music, there is no broadly accepted standard for the interchange of complete projects containing both MIDI and audio between Cubase and other competing recording/editing software (e.g. Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Digital Performer, or Cakewalk), so while actual pure recorded audio information can be exchanged, it is hard to import a whole project (with specific edits, instrument information and automation) in its native format from Cubase to another application and vice versa. The cross-platform OMFI format (which is supported by Cubase SX) resolves this issue to some extent.

Origins

Steinberg's Cubase (at first briefly known as 'Cubit') started life on the Atari ST in 1989, as the successor Sequencer to Steinberg's professional sequencer Pro-24 - it was a complete software re-write. Cubase's most obvious benefit over Pro 24 was its vastly superior arrange page ? in fact, Cubase's arrange page is now widely regarded as the first sequencer to 'get it right', and its paradigm was later wisely incorporated into virtually all the major sequencers (for example, Logic).

However, as the Atari market slowly diminished, Cubase was ported to the Apple Macintosh and ******oft Windows platforms and subsequent versions introduced features for recording raw audio (Circa late 1992). This porting re-invigorated the Mac sequencer developers, and as time passed, they began to gradually catch-up with their European challengers.

The original Cubase used its own operating system called MROS (MIDI Real-time Operating System) which ran on top of the computer's own operating system. MROS did not initially work well on Windows 3.0, which was not intended for real-time applications. However, modern operating systems are designed to support multimedia applications, so modern versions of Cubase no longer use MROS.

The release of Cubase in 1993 on the Atari Falcon was a breakthrough in DSP software technology as realtime manipulation of audio was possible without the assistance of additional processor cards, as was the case with the more costly Pro Tools and other similar systems.


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