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Cubase 5 has a few features and functions that Cubase Studio 5 does not offer. Rather than having to go through the huge table that Steinberg had the courage to set up, here is a summary of it, only emphasizing the differences between both versions !

The Sequencer

• Physical inputs/outputs, 128 instead of 256
• VST instrument slots instead of 64
• 2 mixer views instead of 3
• No Control Room
• No Studio EQ
• No Surround
• No External FX
• Offline Process History only for build-in Audio
• Limited MediaBay : no detail search, no separate tag editor, no user tags
• Studio connections : only Recall, Recall and Audio in C5
• No advanced options in Tempo Editor
• No MIDI devices (Device Maps and Editors)
• No VariAudio
• No track archives
• Full MP3 Fraunhofer encoding available as update
• No OMF import/export
• 44 VST audio effect plug-ins included instead of 56
• 3 VST instruments included instead of 8
• 600 instrument sounds included instead of 1000
• No full printed operations manual

Plug-ins missing from Studio 5

• Cloner
• DeEsser (SPL)
• EnvelopeShaper
• Expander
• GEQ-10
• GEQ-30
• Mix6to2
• MixConvert
• ModMachine
• MultibandCompressor
• MultiScope
• REVerence
• SMPTE Generator
• SoftClipper
• StudioEQ
• Surround Panner
• Test Generator
• Tonic
• VintageCompressor

VST Instruments missing from Studio 5

• Embracer
• LoopMash
• Monologue
• Spector
• Mystic

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