With Black Friday (and Cyber Monday) right around the corner, we’ve compiled a collection of the best deals in tech from around the internet into one nice article.
While Best Buy, Target and Amazon have most of the better deals in retail, there are great offers scattered throughout the web directly from brands, and you can usually get the lowest prices on products and services directly from the companies themselves.
pCloud
Click the image to access pCloud’s BF Sale!
pCloud, an emerging cloud storage provider – has one of the best deals for their service with up to 85% off a Lifetime subscription. Black Friday savings brings prices down as low as $139 for a premium lifetime 500GB account.
Users can get up to 85% OFF for pCloud’s Lifetime plans: Starts 21.11.22 ends 27.11.22
– 500GB Premium Lifetime – 75%OFF ($139) (original price $570) = > Saving more than 400$! – 2TB Premium Plus Lifetime – 75% OFF ($279) (original price $1 140) => Saving around 900$! – 10TB Custom Lifetime – 85% OFF ($890) (original price $6 000) => Saving more than 5000$!
Steinberg’s Advanced Mobile DAW is 50% off for Cyber Week
Cubasis, a Mobile Music Creation System available on Android and iOS has a Cyber Week special going on.
For the next 7 days, you can also get 50% off all in-app purchases. This means you can equip your smartphone or tablet with the most studio-quality tools available for under $100.
Musical ideas can happen at any time. Rhythms and melodies tend to come at you while your during the most mundane tasks, like mowing the yard or cleaning your space. While memory has stood the test of time as our internal scratchpad, technology has gotten more capable, more compact, more accessible each generation.
Many people don’t know the smartphones and tablets they carry on their person everyday is several times more powerful than the most iconic 4-track recorders, drum machines and groove boxes. When an iPhone or Galaxy device is running GarageBand, Cubasis or FL Studio Mobile, paired with a modest MIDI controller like the ATOM SQ by PreSonus or the Akai MPK Mini – the creative abilities are on par with a recording studio that would have cost tens of thousands 15 years ago.
To celebrate the times and plethora of tools available for creatives and musicians alike, we’re sharing a hip-hop/trap beat made in Steinberg’s Cubasis 3 on an iPhone 13 Pro and opened in the same app on Android to confirm compatibility. Check it out in the video:
Demonstrating the power and potential we all have within our reach at any given time with the capabilities of our smartphones alone, Tre’mendous shares his Cubasis session with aspiring creatives and allows us to follow along in the session, remix, or record your own vocals to one of his beats titled “Out Your Feelings”.
Steinberg, the company responsible for the concept of the Digital Audio Workstation and VST plug-in technology – has released the mobile version of its flagship product. Cubasis 3, is “a new app redesigned and developed from the ground up with all new code opposed to bringing an update of Cubasis 2”, according to the developer. Is it an all-new app, or simply an incremental update to the former version? Let’s find out.
Cubasis is a “Mobile Music Creation System” which gives you an unlimited amount of audio, MIDI, and Send tracks to produce original music. It has four main views: the default Arrangement view, the Media (Where all of your audio files, projects, presets reside), Keys/Pads, and Mixer view.
Arrangement (default) View
The arrangement view is where the recording, performing, editing and, you guessed it – Song Arrangement takes place. All of your beat imports, MIDI parts, vocal phrases, and audio takes go here – in the default view. Any MIDI performances are played in the Keys View.
Keys View
Keys View allows you to play your selected instruments and capture your performances. Cubasis has drum pads, that allow you to play percussive sounds and drum kits in a more traditional manner.
Pads View
Lastly, you have the Mixer View, which allows you to get your song mixes down to perfection. And even has the ability to achieve quality masters – if you’re up for the task.
Mixer View
Instruments and Effects
Cubasis has a nice collection of instruments and effects, many are mobile versions of Steinberg’s desktop VSTi and VSTfx Collection. MiniSampler, MicroSonic, Micrologue, and Classic Machines – the latter as an in-app purchase that comes with 12 drum machines.
MiniSampler
The MiniSampler allows you bring in custom sounds, and set start and end cue points to create you own samples from any audio file on your device;
Microsonic
MicroSonic is a mobile take on Steinberg’s Halion Sonic virtual instrument, which features its own sample library of real-world instruments…
Micrologue
Micrologue – the mobile version of Cubase’s resident synth Retrolouge, gives you a streamlined version of the desktop virtual instrument. It’s a Polyphonic Synthesizer with two Oscillators;
Classic Machines
And Classic Machines is a collection of the most used drum machines in modern music.
The internal effects cover all of the essentials, EQ, Reverb, Delay, Compressor, Chorus, etc. Each audio track you add to your session has a channel strip in one of the four effect slots by default. The Channel Strip combines a cut filter, noise gate, compressor, and saturator which can all be bypassed in the signal line individually. There is a similar plug-in, the Master Strip, which combines a Multiband Compressor, Stereo Imager, and Loudness Maximizer to help you bring your mix closer to a final master.
Then there are plug-ins for more creative purposes, like the Micrologue ARP, and Spin FX -which gives you Dubstep, Hip-Hop, and Trap DJ style transitions and drops at the press of a button.
Conclusion
Cubasis 3 is a near-identical replica of it’s motherDAW Cubase, from the UI to the UX – minus the pop-up and dropdown menus of the Desktop interface. Standing in place of those options is a touch-friendly MediaBay with drag and drop functionality, and access to Audio Units and IAA instrument and effect expansion if you’re on iOS, though the Android version is identical with the exception of the latter.
What Steinberg has given the masses is the ability to have a Digital Audio Workstation with an interface customized for touchscreens, that’s just as useful and fully-featured as a Studio One or Pro Tools – without all of the excessive bloat and fat. It runs on the iPhone, iPad, and all but the cheapest budget Androids. It’s a nearly indispensable tool for a music producer or mix engineer with a modern smartphone and a very low bar-to-entry for aspiring artists and beatmakers. If you are a creative who likes the idea of being able to lay down an idea asap, from anywhere – that can be transferred to the “Studio” if need be – you might want to give Cubasis 3 a close look.
