Steinberg
Cubase 12
It’s one of the major DAWs, with a wealth of awesome features. Let’s see how the latest version 12 of this iconic application stacks up
£497
PC MAC
Cubase is one of the longest running and most successful DAWs available. In recent times it’s successfully streamlined its performance, and through a succession of regular version updates added new and requested features.
Big news
In Cubase 11 we saw both new and improved plugins, enhanced content and many operational refinements. To some extent it’s the same story in Cubase 12 and we look at some of these below. However, first some big news. Cubase has finally moved away from dongle protection to a new user-based system – Steinberg Licensing. We found the transition straightforward. The new system currently only applies to new versions of softwares, so you’ll now find your Steinberg account includes two separate product categories, one for Steinberg Licensing and one for existing eLicensors. Once we’d done our upgrade we were also left with a heritage eLicensor version of Cubase 11. One major advantage of the new licensing system is you can authorise up to three devices with your single licence.