Clear speech is the most essential element in the audio narrative of streamed content, film and television. Nuendo 12 includes many new features and improvements to help make sure that dialogue is not only clearly heard, but sound designers and post-production studios can work as quickly, accurately and efficiently as possible. With headline new features for dialogue recording and editing, producing headphone-based binaural mixes and more, Nuendo 12 can truly be called the Home of Dialogue.

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EZdrummer 3 reinvents the role a piece of drum production software can play in a songwriting context. It gives you the creative reins to a comprehensive set of easy-to-use features that allow you to create full-fledged drum tracks without ever leaving the software.

Ready to write some songs? Meet your new drummer.

Fully resizable and scalable interface

Onboard grid editor, step sequencer and more

Find grooves using the Bandmate or Tap2Find

Designed for both songwriters and beat producers, Groove Agent 5 includes the very best of electronic and acoustic drums. One of the most detailed acoustic drum kits ever featured in Groove Agent sits alongside a wide variety of percussion, modern electronic drums and MIDI grooves, delivering an inspirational rhythmic composition tool for producers in every genre, from jazz, funk and rock to Trap and EDM. Support for VST, AU and AAX plug-in formats means Groove Agent 5 can be used with virtually any DAW.

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A new standard of dynamic acoustic drums; new kits for electronic music; new MIDI grooves; live sampling; Decompose feature for your own signature drum sound; 32 velocity layers; updated and resizable user interface… plus much more!

Padshop Pro is an enhanced version of Steinberg’s state-of-the-art VST granular synthesizer and comes with several new effects and opportunities to fit the requirements of professional sound designers and skilled creatives. The Pro version offers the import and manipulation of custom samples in a way that will alter your perception of sound forever.

Exclusive Padshop Pro features

Sample import via drag-and-drop for advanced sound design projects and custom presets

3-band parametric EQ per layer for clarity and smoothness in the mix

Algorithmic reverb to enrich your sound with fullness and athmosphere

50 new presets with athmospheric pads and evolving sounds

DORICO — THE NEXT-GENERATION MUSIC NOTATION SOFTWARE

Dorico helps you to write music notation, automatically producing printed results of exceptional quality — and plays it back with breathtaking realism. It is easy enough for anyone to learn, yet has hundreds of advanced notations, features, options and sounds to satisfy even the most demanding professionals.

Compose

Composing, arranging — or just writing and printing out music — is made much quicker and more efficient with Dorico. Thanks to its intelligent design, it automatically adjusts the notation as you write. With nearly 1,500 sounds included, arrangements can be played back with exceptional realism and, with no workarounds needed for advanced notation, Dorico produces excellent results much more quickly than has been possible before.

THE VANGUARD OF SPECTRAL EDITING AND REPAIR.

SpectraLayers delivers audio empowerment by showing sounds as visual objects. You can explore, reach in, take and transform, working wonders on tasks ranging from repairing and restoring audio to freeform sound design. Unmatched selection tools developed over many years are now joined by new artificial intelligence-driven audio extraction and repair processes, making this the most significant version of SpectraLayers yet.

A Gift to All Singers and Accompanists. Playback, transpose and print entire songs just over a single cup of coffee. Watch as recognized guitar fretboards and chord symbols instantly update as you transpose key signatures. Choose a rhythm style and let the automatic drum kit accompany your song. Sing along with your friends in Karaoke view.

Process practically any PDF music file you find on the Internet. Capture and recognize printed scores directly from your scanner. With 99+% accuracy of the lyrics and text and music*, you'll be astonished at how fast SmartScore 64's finishes your transcribing tasks. Transpose entire scores or individual parts by key or by clef. Reformat, resize and reprint an entire song in just minutes. Export finished scores to other notation programs via MusicXML or MIDI. The easy-to-use editor has been streamlined to speed up workflow. Multiple views include split screen, mulit-document tab views, continuous horizontal viewing of both the original scan (in yellow) and the fully-editable SmartScore window (shown in white).

HALion Sonic SE 3 is a stripped-down version of HALion Sonic 3 without giving up on sound quality and accessibility. The streamlined VST workstation lets you load and play a plethora of sound content: the SE libraries shipping with Steinberg’s digital audio workstations, VST Sound Instrument Sets for HALion and the custom user libraries created within the HALion 6 sampler and sound creation system

The flexible, intuitive Retrologue 2 emulates the warmth and fatness of classic analog synthesizers. Three virtual analog oscillators and a first-class set of filters produce a wealth of rich, inspring sounds; its adaptable arpeggiator, powerful modulation system and FX rack help make Retrologue 2 the first choice for producers everywhere.

Classic virtual analog synthesizer optimized for low CPU load.

Over 700 outstanding presets covering classic analog synth sounds and beyond

Intuitive interface for fast, creative sound design

Maschine 2 is a next-generation of powerful beat-production workstation with sampling, loop slicing, built‑in drum sequencing, improved browsing, arranging, new mixer, plug-in strip, and exclusive drum synths. With Maschine 2 you will get the most responsive, fluid, and musical beatmaking experience ever.

Native Instruments Maschine 2 GUI

Maschine 2 is built on an intelligent combination of timeless groove box and drum machine workflows, systematically refined and expanded to take advantage of the best aspects of computer technology. It brings together flexible step sequencing and real-time polyphonic recording in a forward-thinking pattern-based arrangement concept that makes it easy to jam out ideas, and turn them into full-blown songs in a way that is efficient, effortless and fun.