| Award-winning Cubase 32-bit floating-point audio engine | yes | yes |
| Number of audio tracks | unlimited | unlimited |
| Number of MIDI tracks | unlimited | unlimited |
| Instrument tracks | unlimited | unlimited |
| Physical inputs/outputs | 256 | 128 |
| Group channels | 256 | 256 |
| FX Send channels | 8 | 8 |
| FX Return channels | 64 | 64 |
| VST audio effect insert slots | 8 | 8 |
| MIDI effect insert slots | 4 | 4 |
| VST instrument slots | 64 | 32 |
| VST3 plug-in support | yes | yes |
| Rewire support | yes | yes |
| Number of mixer views | 3 | 2 |
| Control Room | yes | no |
| Extended Channel EQ (VST3 Studio EQ) | yes | no |
| Extended Mixer view | yes | yes |
| Sidechain inputs | yes | yes |
| 5.1 surround and true multichannel audio path | yes | no |
| External FX | yes | no |
| External instruments | yes | no |
| Automation modes | Touch, Auto-Latch, Cross-Over, Trim | Touch, Auto-Latch, Cross-Over, Trim |
| Volume envelopes | yes | yes |
| Automation panel | yes | yes |
| Hardware controller support | yes | yes |
| Channel Batch Export function | yes | yes |
| Unlimited Undo and Redo functions | yes | yes |
| Offline Process History | for built-in audio and all plug-ins | for built-in audio |
| MediaBay and VST Sound support | full | limited* |
| Track presets | yes | yes |
| Studio connections | recall + audio | recall |
| Workspaces (virtual desktops) | yes | yes |
| Project Browser | yes | yes |
| Recording modes: Mix, Overwrite, Normal, Merge, Stacked | yes | yes |
| Recording from busses | yes | yes |
| Editors: Key, List, Basic Score | yes | yes |
| Drum Editor | yes | yes |
| Logical Editor | yes | yes |
| Project Logical Editor | yes | no |
| Inplace Editor (MIDI editing in Project Window) | yes | yes |
| Advanced options in Tempo Editor | yes | no |
| Extended Track Inspector (shows VSTi channel for MIDI tracks) | yes | yes |
| MIDI devices (Device Maps and Editors) | yes | no |
| Professional score layout and printing functions (incl. MusicXML Import + Export) | yes | yes |
| Arranger Track | yes | yes |
| Global Transpose Track | yes | yes |
| Signature and tempo tracks in Project window | yes | yes |
| VariAudio | yes | no |
| Audio Warp (real-time time stretching + pitch shifting) | yes | yes |
| Time Warp tool | yes | yes |
| Pitch Shifting/Time Stretching algorithm | real time + MPEX | real time + MPEX |
| Dithering | Apogee UV22HR | Apogee UV22HR |
| Key command macros | yes | yes |
| Pool Import and Export | yes | yes |
| Track archives | yes | no |
| Extended Freeze for VST instruments and audio tracks | yes | yes |
| Track Quick Controls | yes | yes |
| Full MP3 Fraunhofer encoding | yes | available as update |
| Windows Media WMA Pro encoding | yes | yes |
| OMF import/export | yes | no |
| Sequel Project import | yes | yes |
| Number of VST MIDI effect plug-ins included | 18 | 18 |
| Number of VST audio effect plug-ins included | 56 | 44 |
| Number of VST instruments included | 8 | 3 |
| Number of instrument sounds included | 1,000+ | 600+ |
| Full printed operations manua | yes | no |
| Mac OS X Universal Binary | yes | yes |
| Multi-processing support | yes | yes |
| Vista 64 native Cubase 64-bit version | yes | yes |
