Steinberg Cubase 12

Cubase have just announced version 12 of Cubase, so in our excitement we’re doing a news special to give you the full lowdown on what to expect

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Spring is most definitely in the air, and what better way to kick off this most uplifting of seasons than an uplifting update. Cubase of course needs no introduction, and its decades of service to the music production community are well documented. Given its awesome feature set, Steinberg could probably keep Cubase ticking over, making tweaks here and there. But recently they’ve actually set themselves a pretty demanding release timetable, issuing new version updates with reassuring regularity, listening to user requests and supersizing this already big-hitting application into the creative powerhouse its users deserve.

When we get a new version of a major DAW, all eyes are inevitably on the headline features, and with two new audio plugins, a new instrument and new metering modules, Cubase 12 certainly looks like a valuable update. However, for existing users it’s often the enhancements to established features that really count. 2020’s Cubase 11 brought with it some great new features (documented in