Steinberg Cubase Artist 12 Upgrade from Cubase AI 12

FREE Upgrade to Artist 13 upon registration.

This is an Upgrade version and can only be authorised to registered owners of Cubase AI 12.

Cubase Artist is focused purely on music creation and production, with a wealth of dedicated tools for composing, songwriting, recording and mixing. Its cutting-edge audio technology was developed through decades of music software expertise and is based on the same technologies used and appreciated by leading musicians around the world. Cubase Artist inspires musicians from any genre with instantly accessible features, exciting instruments and effects and a next generation mixing environment. Write songs, record band demos, create beats and mix your music using the acclaimed Cubase audio and mixing engine.

Main Features

• Award-winning 64-bit floating-point Steinberg audio engine with up to 192 kHz
• Unlimited number of audio/MIDI/Instrument tracks
• Complete effect suite with over 70 high-end audio and MIDI VST effect processors
• Four outstanding VST Instruments with over 2.500 included instrument sounds, HALion Sonic SE 3, Groove Agent SE 5, Padshop 2 and Retrologue 2
• NEW: Improved MIDI Remote controller integration
• NEW: FX Modulator - advanced, multi-effect modulation
• NEW: Improved AudioWarp with phase-coherent multi-track warp
• NEW: Scale Assistant in VariAudio
• NEW: Audio to MIDI chords
• NEW: Verve - a beautifully atmospheric felt piano.
• Native Apple silicon support

What’s New in Cubase Artist 12

MIDI Remote Integration
MIDI controllers are essential to every music production setup and, in Cubase 12, integrating them has reached a new level.

VariAudio with Scale Assistant
The Scale Assistant in VariAudio brings two powerful tools together to make pitch editing a breeze.

Audio to MIDI Chords
Just drag your audio recording to the Chord Track and Cubase will lay out the chord progression for you.

FX Modulator
You can really breathe life into your sounds with the advanced, multi-effect modulation of FX Modulator.

AudioWarp Improvements
The Free Warp tool lets you now edit your audio recordings and correct timings directly in the Project window.

Editing Workflow Improvements
When deadlines are tight, you need to work fast. We have improved the editing workflows with new functions and key commands to help.

Sample Accurate Volume Automation
Volume automation is now near sample accurate and completely independent from the buffer size.

Verve – A Sonic Masterpiece
A felt piano that is so beautiful and warm, so dreamy and melancholic, so detailed and pure.

Goodbye Dongle
Cubase 12 ushers in a new era with a licensing system that doesn’t need a physical copy protection device and also lifts many restrictions of the past.

Performance Improvements
Steinberg are constantly working on the overall performance of Cubase and, with Cubase 12, they are proud to present significant improvements in several areas. They have upgraded its performance when navigating and zooming within huge projects. Cubase 12 is faster and snappier than ever before.

Import Tracks From Project Improvements
You can now import tempo and signature tracks from other projects and track archives, making for seamless exchange between projects.

Smooth Waveform Drawing
Cubase 12 introduces new smooth waveform drawing. It’s easier on the eyes and makes it even easier for you to edit audio with pinpoint accuracy.

Native Apple Silicon Support
For those using the latest Macintosh computers, Cubase 12 introduces native Apple silicon support.

Bluetooth MIDI in Windows
Cubase now supports MIDI over Bluetooth in Windows 10 or higher.

ARA Improvements
ARA Extensions can now be applied at track level, letting you conveniently edit all events within that track.

New SuperVision Modules
Steinberg have added several amazingly useful new modules to SuperVision, including a VU meter, spectrum keyboard, phasebalance, level and loudness histograms. Monitoring every aspect of your projects is now even better!

Audio Export With Sidechain Support
Audio export of individual channels or stems now allows you to print audio, including taking side-chain input from tracks outside of the stem group into account.

Advanced Crossfade Editor
The advanced crossfade editor offers more control, new operations and advanced editing, to help you create the perfect blend.

System Requirements

Operating Systems (Windows)
64-bit Windows 11 (version 21H2 or higher) 64-bit Windows 10 (version 21H2 or higher)

Operating Systems (Mac)
macOS Monterey macOS Big Sur

Apple Silicon-Based Mac
Native App Rosetta 2 App

CPU Minimum (Windows)
®Intel Core™ i5 (4th Generation) or AMD Ryzen™

CPU Minimum (Mac)
®Intel Core™ i5 (mid 2013 or later) or Apple silicon

CPU Cores
4 or more

RAM Minimum
8GB

Hard Disk Free Space (Full Installation)
70GB

Display Resolution Minimum At 100% UI Scaling
1440 x 900

Graphics Minimum (Windows)
Graphics card with native Windows 10 support (Microsoft Basic Display Driver is not recommended)

Graphics Recommended (Windows)
AMD R or RX series and later or NVIDIA Series 700 and later

Graphics (Mac)
Graphics card with Metal support

Graphics (GPU memory)
4 GB or higher for 4k displays

OS compatible audio hardware is required. ASIO-compatible audio hardware is recommended for low-latency performance.

An internet connection is required for activation, account setup and personal/product registration. A download is required for the installation.

Note: This software version does not support 32-bit plug-ins. VST 2 plug-ins only run in Rosetta 2 mode on Apple silicon-based Mac computers. Cubase does not support VST 2 when running natively on Apple silicon Macs.