Steinberg Cubase Pro 8, Cubase Artist 8 User guide

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Cristina Bachmann, Heiko Bischoff, Christina Kaboth, Insa Mingers, Sabine

Pfeifer, Kevin Quarshie, Benjamin Schütte

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Table of Contents

6 Introduction

6 Welcome! 7 About the Documentation and the Help 9 Typographical Conventions 10 How You Can Reach Us

12 System Requirements and Installation

12 System Requirements 13 Installing the Program 15 Activating Your License 16 Registering Your Software 16 Hardware Installation 19 Setting up Your System

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Introduction

Welcome!

Congratulations and thank you very much for purchasing Steinberg's Cubase Pro 8 or Cubase Artist 8.

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 8 and Cubase Artist 8 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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About the Documentation and the Help

exploring the incredible new possibilities open to you is as thrilling as we hope to make it. It's why we work at this company and do the job we do.

Either way, please keep in touch with us about your experience with Cubase through our internet forums at www.steinberg.net/forum or through the contact channels for your region, more information on which you can find at our website.

Most sincerely yours, Your Steinberg Cubase Team

About the Documentation and the Help

The documentation are available in the PDF format and divided into the following sections:

• To open the help in the program, select Help > Documentation.

• On Windows systems, you open the PDF documents via the Start menu, from the Steinberg Cubase folder.

• On Mac OS X systems, the PDF documents are located in the

/Library/Documentation/Steinberg/Cubase

8 folder.

To read the PDF documents, a suitable PDF reader application must be installed on your computer.

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