Steinberg - Cubase Elements 8 - Windows, Mac OS

Cubase Elements 8 offers the world of Cubase in a streamlined, instantly accessible music production environment. Using the same technology platform as its larger siblings in the Cubase family, Cubase Elements 8 gives you plenty of features that help seize the moment when musical creativity strikes, including chord tracks and pads for intuitive songwriting, a range of instruments to fill out your musical ideas and a palette of studio-grade effects to help polish the results to a professional level. Cubase Elements 8 is your personal music studio incorporating professional workflows as used by countless professional artists around the globe.

• New features: Improved windows handling on PC, dockable rack and MediaBay, plus a redesigned track list.
• Instrument track 2.0: Supports multi-outputs and multi-inputs, and merges instrument tracks with the VST instrument rack.
• Chord pads: Let you playfully and creatively compose with chords.
• Groove Agent SE 4: Features over 120 drum kits and a smart user interface for creating beats and hits in no time.
• HALion Sonic SE 2: Gives you tons of fresh new sounds and a totally new synth.
• Plug-in manager: Arrange, sort and group your effects and instruments.
• Transient navigation: Tab to transients on audio events in the Project window thanks to the new instant hitpoint navigation.
• FLAC lossless compression codec: Allows recording, importing and exporting audio files.