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
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Cubasis 3 FAQ
Is Cubasis 3 free?
Yes, Cubasis 3 is free to download, however it contains in-app purchases or subscription offerings.
Is Cubasis 3 legit?
🤔 The Cubasis 3 app's quality is mixed. Some users are satisfied, while others report issues. Consider reading individual reviews for more context.
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How much does Cubasis 3 cost?
Cubasis 3 has several in-app purchases/subscriptions, the average in-app price is €11.59.
Hi, The main reason why I don’t use your product is because the undo button is not visible on the keyboard ”view”.
Every time you record something with the on screen keyboard and the take isn’t good enough you have to close the keyboard to get back to the track view to undo the take.
That really kills the flow.
I hope you can add the undo-button to the keybord”view” so you can just remove the bad take with one press of a finger.
Maybe you could add a small strip of custom buttons to the keyboard view while your at it so everyone could choose few commands they feel they need while recording (like quantize would bee nice so you could instantly try if the take you did would work with a little bit of quantizing?).
Otherwise I really like your product but that undo-thing really is a dealbreaker for me. One more thing that would be great would be a upgrade to the keyboard so it would support (the ancient) 3d touch and maybe MPE style controls. I have been holding on to an iPhone Xs Max 512 for all these yaers just because of the 3d touch really turns iPhone in to an instrument with the right apps/instruments.
Only a sketchpad
No tempo track or any other way whatsoever to change tempo mid song? Similarly, no way to change time signature? You can not be serious.
Obviously, there is music with no use for tempo changes other than half-time and double-time, but most people looking to utilise this app at all ”seriously” should find this tragic omission severely crippling.
Shifting time signature is admittedly a tad more novel compositional element, but still quite necessary to many songwriters.
I am hardly a dev, but I, for one, find it fairly challenging to imagine as to how could it be so tricky an implementation that it has been left out? Possibly a dev could answer?
I suppose one could create separate songs for different tempos and/or time signatures and then bounce and downmix back and forth like a rabid clown, but that should prove woefully tedious.
Please tell me I am just missing something.
This effectively renders the app to a mere sketchpad to put down ideas, riffs, ostinatos, simple passages and whathaveyou. Accelerando? Ritardando? No.
I feel devastated to leave such an unforgiving rating, although I must give an additional star for true potential, however missed. Additionally, always a delight to see a design sans the vexing eyesore of skeuomorphism (can’t everybody just abandon it already).
Undo history disappears entirely from time to time making experimental changes rather perilous.
Disappointed.
PS. Devs, can you please let us know if tempo track is going to be implemented in any foreseeable future?
Spyware?
Keeps using the microphone even if you kill the app. Only way to to solve is to restart iPad. German intelligence spyware?
Great but...
it’s missing aux sends and eq’s on mixer view. Also signal routing possibilities are poor : It would be nice to get a channel(s) for aux return(s) for example.
Promising but broken
It’s possible to select an instrument for a track that you don’t own yet. After this the app forces you to its own store if you want to change it to another instrument, essentially making the track unusable and destroying your work.
Cubase in your pocket!!!
I love how I can sketch an idea on my phone or iPad and easily transfer my idea to my home computer and fully develop it on Cubase.
This Is The Best DAW for IOS you can BUY!
With the latest update this is a complete full fledged DAW and you can BUY it for the price that some others charge to rent for a month!
Record and edit audio
Record and edit MIDI
Mix and add effects
Master!
It comes with a plethora of instruments and you can get more (really low prices) in the in app shop
They update it consistently
Easy to use and there are ton of tutorials online
I don’t need a computer to record anymore! I can a carry a recording studio with me!
Best DAW there is
With Cubasis 3.7 iOS, iPhone, and iPad have the best DAW there is. Sound wise it has everything you could ask for, from instruments to drums to synths with HALion, Neo FM, FM Classics, and now Iconica Sketch. Time signature and tempo tracks have made this on par with Logic. The user interface is the best in the business, the UI is beautiful, and the UX is seamless. With the upcoming updates, I hope to see Groove Agent and PDC (plugin delay compensation), but as it stands, Cubasis is now the king of iOS DAWs. Keep it up Steinberg, you have a dedicated customer for life.
Best Daw on IPAD
So power
So user friendly
So they listen to there customers also!!
Thank you for such a great software
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