Cubase is a music software product developed by Steinberg

Steinberg

Steinberg GmbH is a German musical software and equipment company based in Hamburg. It mainly produces music recording, arranging and editing software as used in digital audio workstations and VSTi software synthesizers.- History :...

 for music recording, arranging and editing as part of a Digital Audio Workstation

Digital audio workstation

A digital audio workstation is an electronic system designed solely or primarily for recording, editing and playing back digital audio. DAWs were originally tape-less, microprocessor-based systems such as the Synclavier and Fairlight CMI...

. It is one of the oldest DAWs to still enjoy widespread use. The first version, which ran on the Atari ST

Atari ST

The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was released by Atari Corporation in 1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals...

 computer and recorded via MIDI only, was released in 1989.

On January 17, 2011, Steinberg announced that the new version, Cubase 6, was ready and officially shipping.