One slight change is that the installer now downloads the latest Cubase build from the Web during installation, so you'll need to make sure your computer has an Internet connection (or, alternatively, you can download this core Cubase installer from another computer and run it after the main installer has finished). Installing Cubase 7 is relatively easy, and, as with previous major releases, it's possible to install Cubase 7 without disrupting an earlier 6.5 installation. And, as ever, there's a host of smaller improvements including workflow-enhancing tools, new plug-ins, and much, much more. Secondly, a new Chord Track enables musicians to explore harmonic progressions in different ways. Firstly, there's a redesigned mixer called, appropriately enough, MixConsole, which represents a radical departure from the virtual mixers both in previous versions of Cubase and, in some ways, other applications. This time, the two most significant new features seem to go deeper into the program than any of the aforementioned developments. So what better way for Steinberg to celebrate a decade of the modern Cubase era than to release a major new version? Cubase 4 dropped the 'SX', adding VST 3 support and Media Bay, Cubase 5 gave us VariAudio and Expression Maps, and Cubase 6 took this even further with Note Expression. SX2 presented the Time Warp tool and saw the return of much classic Cubase functionality, while SX3 extended warping to audio and introduced the Arranger Track, Device Panels and in-place editing.

It's been 10 years since Steinberg introduced Cubase SX to the world, and since then the program has changed a great deal. Steinberg's DAW software has received perhaps its biggest shake-up to date, with a redesigned mixer and some clever chord functions.

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