Introduction; Welcome - Steinberg CUBASE PRO 8.5 Guide Rapide

Introduction

Welcome!

Congratulations and thank you very much for purchasing
Steinberg's Cubase Pro 8.5 or Cubase Artist 8.5.
The product you have purchased has – by the standards of the software
industry – a very, very long and successful lineage, going all the way
back to 1989. Since the first version was released for the legendary
Atari computer Cubase has changed so much – for the better. It's why
over the last quarter century, millions of musicians, producers, DJs,
composers and audio engineers have chosen Cubase to be the home
of their musical creativity. And these include Grammy winners adored
by millions as well as people who make music at home purely for their
own pleasure; big name producers and small town hopefuls; rock stars
and high school music teachers. And all of these groups are equally
important to us in making this software.
The design goal for this version was to combine the technology with
creativity. To mix innovation with inspiration, and professionalism with
passion. And we believe that we've managed to deliver just that.
The list of new features in Cubase Pro and Cubase Artist is far too
long to repeat here. Some of them will be immediately visible to you on
opening the appropriate part of the program; some of the most
important are hidden from view deep within the program code itself. A
huge amount of engineering work has gone into making projects faster
to open and save, the software itself faster, more fluid and responsive.
All with the goal of making Cubase sleeker, more efficient and at the
same time even more creative than ever before.
If you are an upgrading customer, we thank you deeply for your
continued faith in our product. And if you are entirely new to Cubase,
we hope that the experience of opening up Cubase for the first time and
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