Cubasis 3 - DAW & Music Studio 12+
Audio, Midi, Mixer & Sequencer
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH
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- $69.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Quickly and easily capture your musical ideas as soon as they arrive and turn them into professional-sounding songs with the multi-award winning Cubasis 3. Enjoy performing, recording, mixing and sharing your music in no time, wherever you are, right there on your iPhone and iPad. Meet one of the fastest, most intuitive and complete audio and MIDI DAWs available on iOS today: Cubasis 3.
Computer Music Editor’s Choice Award 2020・MusicTech Choice Award 2020・NAMM TEC Awards 2025 Finalist
"Cubasis 3 marks a great leap to the iPhone, and maintains Cubasis’ status as the DAW to beat on the iOS platform." — Computer Music
"Cubasis has always represented the best balance between features and usability in any iOS DAW/sequencer, and in Cubasis 3, Steinberg have raised a high bar even higher." — Sound On Sound
"Cubasis 3 is far and away the most powerful and user-friendly mobile DAW around." — ASK Audio
"Cubasis has been invaluable for me when I just need to create a quick demo before the plane lands." — Rob Swire (Pendulum, Knife Party, Deadmau5)
Learn more about Cubasis at www.steinberg.net/cubasis
NEW IN CUBASIS 3
• Universal app support: Run Cubasis on the iPhone and iPad
• Tempo and signature track support
• Group tracks: Easily combine individual tracks to groups
• Full-screen mixer: Easily extend the size of the mixer and more
• New look, same feel: Enjoy creating more efficiently
• Free Cubasis 2 IAP transfer: Freely transfer previous in-app purchases to Cubasis 3
• 960 PPQN MIDI resolution: Precise audio and MIDI event editing at the highest level
• 8 insert, 8 send effects: Create great-sounding tracks with flexible effects options
• FX rearrangement: Quickly rearrange plug-ins and change their pre/post fader position
• 75 new effects presets: Make tracks sound great with these ready-to-use presets
• Undo with history list: Quickly jump back to earlier versions of your song
• Redesigned instruments and effects: Modern styling with more precise operation
• Audio, MIDI and automation editors revisited: File editing is much more effective
• Revised MediaBay: Your all-new control center for file and project management
• UI scale presets for iPhone and iPad: Quickly change the size and arrangement of Cubasis
• MicroSonic instruments refill: Get creative with great-sounding new instruments
HIGHLIGHTS
• Unlimited number of audio and MIDI tracks
• 24 assignable physical inputs and outputs
• 32-bit floating-point audio engine
• Audio I/O resolution of up to 24-bit/96 kHz
• Real-time time-stretching and pitch-shifting featuring zplane’s élastique 3
• Micrologue virtual analog synthesizer with 126 ready-to-go presets
• MicroSonic with over 120 virtual instrument sounds
• MiniSampler to create your own instruments (includes 20 factory instruments)
• Mixer with studio-grade channel strip per track and 17 effects processors
• Sidechain support
• Fully automatable DJ-like Spin FX effect plug-in
• Over 550 MIDI and time-stretch-capable audio loops
• Virtual keyboard with chord buttons, chord and drum pads with intuitive note repeat
• Audio editor and MIDI editor with MIDI CC support
• MIDI editor for programming and editing MIDI tracks quickly and efficiently
• MIDI Learn, Mackie Control (MCU) and HUI protocol support
• MIDI auto quantize and time-stretch
• Track duplicate
• Automation, MIDI CC, program change and aftertouch support
• Core Audio and MIDI-compatible hardware supported
• Keyboard shortcut and mouse support
• MIDI over Bluetooth LE support
• Audio Unit including Instrument Multi Out support, Inter-App Audio and Audiobus 3 support
• Ableton Link Support
• Import audio via iTunes, iCloud Drive, Files app, AirDrop or use AudioPaste
• MIDI clock and MIDI thru support
• Export to Cubase, iCloud Drive, external hard drives, wireless flash drives, Dropbox, AudioCopy and email
Technical support
http://www.steinberg.net/cubasisforum
If you like Cubasis, please support us by rating this app in the App Store! Thank you!
What’s New
Version 3.7.1
What’s New in Cubasis 3.7.1
This supplemental update includes improvements and is recommended for all Cubasis users.
For the complete list of improvements, issues and solution please visit us at www.steinberg.net/cubasisforum.
If you like Cubasis, please support us by rating this app in the App Store! Thank you!
What's New in Cubasis 3.7
Capture your ideas and turn them into exceptional sounding tracks with Cubasis, our award-winning mobile DAW app for iOS and iPadOS. Create in 3/4, 7/8, 15/16 or whatever time signature matches your inspiration. Go even further and easily add multiple tempo and time signature changes or ramps in just a few steps. Celebrate Yamaha's Synth 50th Anniversary with 384 additional legendary DX7 patches in the free FM Classics IAP update. Or, as the owner of the brand new Iconica Sketch for iOS app, create inspiring orchestral masterpieces on the go with the free additional Cubasis plug-in version. Go create wherever you are – with Cubasis on your iPad and iPhone.
• Tempo and signature track support
Take your music creation with Cubasis to the next level, now featuring tempo and signature track support. Easily adjust tempo and time signatures on the fly to match your creative vision. Effortlessly create tracks with unique time signatures, explore new rhythmic patterns, and craft dynamic music that keeps listeners hooked. Unleash your creativity and make every beat count with tempo and signature track support.
• Iconica Sketch for iPhone and iPad, plus additional Cubasis plug-in version
Iconica Sketch, our brand-new iOS/iPadOS app, includes a comprehensive orchestra with 34 different instruments and 140 articulations. Paired with brillant audio quality and magical simplicity, it allows you to create musical masterpieces on the move, on your iPhone and iPad, as well as with every AU-compatible DAW. Plus, as the owner of Cubasis and Iconica Sketch for iPhone and iPad, you get a free additional Cubasis plug-in version of the instrument for improved integration and maximum performance.
• Free FM Classics (IAP) voice ROM update
Cubasis' FM Classics IAP comes with all the classic DX7 and TX81Z factory sounds, which match the originals as close as it’s possible to get. To celebrate Yamaha’s Synth 50th Anniversary, you can enjoy the free DX7 voice ROM 101∼106 update, which adds 384 keyboard, plucked and tuned percussion, wind instrument, sustain, sound effect and synthesizer patches, bringing the golden sound of the 1980s back to life.
• Improvements
Cubasis assures you always stay focused on your creativity. Cubasis 3.7 matches powerful features and improvements with unmatched usability, ensuring maximum performance and enduring stability, supporting you by helping you to capture your ideas and polish them into amazing sounding tracks. For the complete list of improvements, issues and solutions please visit us at http://steinberg.net/cubasisforum.
Ratings and Reviews
What happened?
I’ve been using Cubase for more than 20 years and Cubasis since it came out. Cubasis 1 was great, Cubasis 2 also good but Cubase 3 has got me working extra hard, trying to get it work with Music Studio, Pure Synth, SynthMaster One and my other apps. I have yet to have success. It works wonderfully with iGrand but what about all the rest? Some of my other apps that were available in the older Cubasis don’t even appear on Cubasis 3’s menu. Why is that? Is it perhaps time for me to move on to something that is more compatible or am I just doing something wrong?
Developer Response ,
Hi Lourenso, Thanks for your Cubasis review and rating! There should be no options to use your 3rd party plug-ins within Cubasis 3. You may launch the Stand Alone app versions of the plug-ins first, before loading them within Cubasis. Does this help to resolve your current issue? Please let me know via your updated app review and rating! Thanks Lars
Very Good
To date this has been my favourite Daw on iPad OS. I’ve been using a 12.9 inch iPad M1 and the experience has been very enjoyable thus far. I’m not sure why but I just seem to have a propensity of working, creating and playing music using the iPad. After years of struggling with the bloated complicated mess of Pro Tools and thankfully eventually moving to Studio One Professional and after spending umpteen thousands of dollars in computer desktop software. I find myself happier and more creative in the confines of simplicity without all the ongoing technical issues and hurdles that was a prevalent reality within the desktop realm. I am hoping that the developers of Cubasis will keep up the good work and continually develop the software and have ongoing improvements and features and I would graciously pay for ongoing development towards major upgrades.
Developer Response ,
Hi Theewanderingsoul, Many thanks for your kind Cubasis review and rating. We are very glad to read that using Cubasis on your iPad leads to more creativity, which is great. We try our best to improve the app with every new update. Enjoy being creative & stay safe and sound! Warm greetings to Canada, Lars
Excellent
The addition of tempo track and signature track has resolved my constant ios daw searching. I remember begging Mr Lars for a tempo track years ago and now I have it. Stability is fantastic on M4 Pro 13 iPad. I have now removed competitor daws from my device definitively.
With Fab Filter in the chain Cubasis has become a good reliable platform.
Developer Response ,
Hi Jaryi G, HNY2025!! Thank you very much for your updated review and rating! We are very glad to read that you seem to enjoy using Cubasis 3.7!! Thanks again and stay well, Lars
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Hi Jaryi G, Thank you very much for your kind Cubasis review and rating - greatly appreciated. Cubasis 3.6.6 has been released this morning and resolves the Mixdown issue, as well as a few other problems. Please find out more at: https://forums.steinberg.net/t/cubasis-3-6-6-hotfix-available/915823. Warm greetings, Lars
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Information
- Seller
- Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH
- Size
- 1.2 GB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information
- Copyright
- © Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, 2025
- Price
- $69.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Waves Tune Real-Time $6.99
- Classic Machines $9.99
- Micrologue ARP Arpeggiator $6.99
- Waves Plug-in Bundle $24.99
- FX Pack 1: Reverbs & Delays $9.99
- FX Pack 2: Vintage FX $9.99
- HALion Sonic Selection $24.99
- FM Classics $19.99
- Neo FM $19.99
- Waves AudioTrack $9.99
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Family Sharing
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