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Cubasis 3.8, Verve, Etude & Iconica Sketch 1.1 – Available Now!
Dear all,
I hope you’re doing well!
I’m excited to share the news about our latest releases!
Cubasis 3.8 (and Cubasis LE 3.8)
Download Cubasis on the App Store
Verve for iPhone and iPad and AUv3
Download Verve on the App Store
Etude for iPhone and iPad and AUv3
Download Etude on the App Store
Iconica Sketch 1.1for iPhone and iPad and AUv3
Download Iconica Sketch on the App Store
Cubasis 3.8 introduces legendary guitar and bass amp tones, a new tuner, enhanced audio routing with Bluetooth audio recording support, portrait and windowed app modes, external display compatibility, and full iOS 26 integration, exclusive plug-ins for Verve and Etude users and much more.
We’re also proud to present two new premium piano apps for iPhone and iPad:
- Verve: A beautifully captured felt piano from Yamaha Studios, perfect for emotional scoring and atmospheric textures.
- Etude: The soul of a Yamaha C3X concert grand, delivering rich tone and dynamic realism for a concert-level experience on the go.
Finally, Iconica Sketch 1.1 brings improvements and fixes for an even smoother orchestration experience.
From December 17, 2025 to January 7, 2026, enjoy special introductory offers and additional deals.
For details, please visit: https://steinberg.net/promotion/
We’d love to hear your thoughts on these releases!
If you enjoy the updates, please support us by rating Cubasis 3.8, Verve, Etude, and Iconica Sketch on the App Store.
Wishing you a wonderful holiday season and lots of creative inspiration!
Enjoy being creative
& stay well,
Lars
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Verve and Etude Tutorial
Cubasis 3.8 Tutorial
New in Cubasis 3.8
Cubasis 3.8 transforms your iPhone and iPad into a powerful mobile studio for musicians of all kinds. With Cubasis 3.8, plug in your guitar or bass to access legendary amp tones and presets, stay in tune with the new tuner, and enjoy smoother sessions with improved audio routing and Bluetooth support. Work in your way with portrait mode, external display support, and full iOS 26 integration. Plus, get exclusive Cubasis plug-ins if you own our all-new Verve and Etude for iOS piano apps and more.
Cubasis Bass Amp
So you've laid down a great bass track – now it deserves to sound its absolute best. That’s where our Bass Amp Suite shines, featuring an arsenal of the most sought-after, great-sounding iconic bass amps, paired with a wide range of EQ, compression, and dedicated bass effects like Chorus, Phaser, Flanger, Envelope Filter, Octaver, and many more. Of course, we’ve included a huge selection of pro-sounding presets for all kinds of genres – whether as a starting point or for that final polish, the choice is yours.
Cubasis Amp Rack
Your guitar track demands more than just volume – it craves character, tone, and impact. Cubasis Amp Rack delivers a rich collection of legendary amp models, paired with a versatile suite of guitar-focused effects. Whether you're chasing vintage warmth or modern edge, Amp Rack will get you there with ease, making it simple to dial in your perfect sound. And with a wide range of genre-ready presets, you’re set to quickly shape your tone– or fine-tune it to perfection.
Cubasis Tuner
Before you bring your next musical idea to life, ensure your tuning is spot on with the all-new Cubasis Tuner. Discover one of the most beautifully designed tuner plug-ins, blending sleek visuals with intuitive controls and lightning-fast response. With both simple and advanced interface modes, it enables fast tuning with pinpoint accuracy. Stay perfectly in tune and keep your creative momentum going, without any distractions.
Smarter Sound, Portrait Mode, Bigger Screens & iOS 26 Ready
Cubasis 3.8 introduces audio input and output device selection alongside Bluetooth audio recording, giving you full control over your routing and mobile capture setup. Enjoy greater workflow flexibility with portrait mode and windowing support, plus full support for external displays to expand your creative space. With full iOS 26 compatibility, Cubasis is ready for whatever you create next.
*Using Bluetooth audio may introduce system-related latency.
Additional Verve and Etude Cubasis Plug-in Versions
Verve and Etude, our brand new piano apps for iOS and iPadOS, deliver world-class piano sounds – ideal for scoring, classical, jazz, pop-oriented pieces and more. Use them standalone on your iPhone or iPad, or seamlessly integrate them into any AU-compatible DAW. Plus, if you own both Cubasis and Verve or Etude, you’ll get an additional Cubasis plug-in version of the instrument at no extra cost for enhanced integration and peak performance.
Improved MIDI File Support
Cubasis 3.8 now supports import and export of Tempo and Signature track data in MIDI files, making it easier to preserve timing and structure across apps and devices. These enhancements improve compatibility and streamline your workflow when arranging and sharing projects. Additional refinements also make working with MIDI files smoother and more flexible than ever.
More Features and Improvements
Features alone don’t make a great app – usability and reliability do. Alongside its exciting new features, Cubasis 3.8 delivers thoughtful refinements such as significant Tempo and Signature track improvements, addressing user feedback for a smoother, more enjoyable experience… and much more. Renowned for its usability, Cubasis now offers even greater performance and long-term stability. For the full list of fixes and enhancements, please visit: steinberg.net/cubasisforum.
If you like Cubasis, please support us by rating this app in the App Store!
Verve for iPhone/iPad + Etude for iPhone/iPad
Verve – Felt Piano Redefined
Warm, intimate, and cinematic. Verve is a beautifully detailed felt piano, perfect for emotional scoring, ambient textures, and expressive songwriting. Captured at Yamaha Studios with absolute precision, Verve offers a deeply personal playing experience. Included textures – crafted from metal, glass, dry ice, and more – blend seamlessly with the piano to create immersive, atmospheric soundscapes.
Etude – A Grand Piano in Your Hands
Etude brings the soul of a Yamaha C3X concert grand to your mobile setup. With breathtaking tonal richness and dynamic realism, it’s like composing with a world class piano. Ideal for songwriting, performing, and producing with unmatched authenticity, Etude delivers a concert level experience wherever you are.
• Two stunning pianos: Felt and grand
• Studio quality sound, mobile-ready
• Seamless AUv3 integration with Cubasis and more
• Perfect for scoring, songwriting and live performance
• Verve includes cinematic textures for emotional depth
Cubasis 3.8 Version History
New Features
• Added Bass Amp with iconic amps, cabs, stomp effects, and pro preset library.
• Introduced Amp Rack with legendary amps, guitar effects, and genre-ready presets.
• Added Tuner with simple and advanced modes for fast, accurate tuning.
• Added Verve and Etude Cubasis plug-in versions for users of the iOS apps.
• Improved MIDI File support with Tempo and Signature track import/export.
• Enabled portrait mode support on iPad and Android tablets.
• Added full screen and windowed app support for iPadOS 26.
• Added Bluetooth recording support, as well as AirPods high-quality recording on iOS 26.
• Added audio input/output device selection on iOS.
• Enabled stereo recording with internal mics of iOS devices.
UI & Workflow Improvements
• Effect rack now has a preset display with arrows for browsing.
• Selecting an effect preset now enables the effect.
• Double-tap on an event in select mode now opens the editor.
• MIDI recording doesn’t create a new event anymore if the editor is open.
• Keyboard now remembers open panels.
• Horizontal scrolling with mouse and trackpad in arranger view supported.
• Routing popups now positioned correctly and close when tapped again.
• Zoom panel no longer overlaps automation handles.
• Fixed hidden instrument list back arrow after adding an AU multi-output track.
• iOS keyboard shortcut hint “close view” is now displayed correctly.
Performance & Stability
• Instrument content is now shared between Cubasis 3, Cubasis 3 LE, and Steinberg’s AUv3 instrument apps on iOS.
• Optimized hardware-accelerated UI rendering.
• Improved undo reliability.
• Fixed a crash when launching on external display connected to iPad.
• Fixed crashes on some Android devices (Pixel Fold) after content download.
• Fixed an intermittent crash when launching Cubasis on iPad 7th generation.
• Improved stability when changing Iconica Sketch presets.
• Fixed audio hiccups when loading projects during playback.
Audio & MIDI Enhancements
• EQ bypass state is now correctly exported/imported in DAWproject files.
• Improved tempo track recording and playback sync.
• MIDI file export moved from the Mixdown to the MediaBay’s Share dialog.
• MIDI file import and export consider tempo and signature tracks.
• Improved MIDI file import/export handling of drum channels.
• Muted notes are no longer exported to MIDI files.
• Fixed crackling noise when removing or toggling effects or switching presets.
• Fixed crackling noise when switching Micrologue presets.
• Fixed audio playback issues when converting stereo to mono during playback.
• Fixed issues with the ruler’s grid and labels when using the signature track.
• Automation points are no longer cropped at the top and bottom.
• Send level automation points no longer lie outside the editor.
• HALion Sonic Selection, NeoFM, FM Classics and LoFi Piano now respond to CC7 volume control.
• HALion Sonic Selection octave, coarse, fine and pitch-bend knob arcs now start from the center.
Bug Fixes
• Undo of event copying via handle works as expected.
• Undo of effect and instrument parameter changes works as expected.
• Dry mixdown or track freeze with a send effect now works as expected.
• Audio Unit UIs are no longer hidden while the undo info popup fades out.
• Keyboard shortcuts now work while undo info popup is visible on Android.
• Corrected folder behavior when opening effect rack after saving an AU effect preset.
• Fixed wrong file naming when doing a mixdown to separate files.
• Instrument list browser updates correctly when switching between AU tracks.
• StudioEQ curve and band switching issues resolved.
• Fixed broken UI after loading large MIDI projects.
• Fixed punch-out functionality in cycle mode.
• Fixed missing popup when AUs are unavailable.
• Fixed chaotic automation lines when pasting.
• Fixed wrong gluing results with different audio event states.
• MIDI output notes at the cycle start are no longer cut off if no instrument is assigned.
• Fixed the file name when sharing to Google Drive on Android.
• Fixed broken insert slots in a new project in Cubasis LE 3.
• Fixed broken MediaBay icons in Cubasis 3 LE for Android.
• Shop demos now play correctly on all Android devices.
Technical Updates
• Updated Android API target to API level 36.
• Updated Android audio engine to Oboe 1.9.3.
• Updated Ableton Link to LinkKit 3.2.1.
This is awesome, but will we ever get Groove Agent on iOS @LFS ? I'd prefer that to using Koala as a drum module.
Thanks, Lars and team.
A really big update that I wasn't expecting. This puts Cubasis way ahead of the competition.
Amazing work @LFS
Thank you for the early Christmas gifts. 👊🏽💗🎚️
@LFS Piano roll when zoomed in goes under the toolbar, hope it’s an easy fix
Hi @Samu,
Good catch! A quick and easy workaround is to reduce the zoom factor slightly - can you confirm this?
Thankfully, it’s just a small cosmetic issue. Will share this with our engineering.
Thanks again,
Lars
Yeah, it’s a purely cosmetic thing.
Really enjoying the vertical mode too
Thank you @LFS, great update! How large is the download size for Verve and Etude?
Thanks @Jer4
Etude - 737 MB
Verve - 1,5 GB
Hope that helps!
Best,
Lars
I must say Verve sounds good to my taste.
I definitely didn't need any more pianos but they are very nice and the only way left I could pay Steinberg for all their work. As a huge fan of Yamaha pianos I'm sure I'll find a use for them.
How does one engage the portrait mode btw?
Hi @Krupa,
Normally, simply holding the iPad in portrait mode should make Cubasis appear in portrait mode.
Are you on iPadOS 26?
Best regards,
Lars
Thanks for the update, well appreciated 👊❤️🧠
Really nice update! Amazing to see lots of little stability and flexibility improvements too! 🙏🙏🙏
While we’re all here, a few things I’d absolutely love to see in a future update are:
Plugin Delay Compensation (talked to death, but I’ve had many tracks get wonky due to the lack of this, feels necessary personally for me to rely on CB3).
Groups:
A ) I’d love to see groups behave more like folders, where you can fold tracks down in big projects to help organisation.
B ) More flexible group routing - I want to send groups to groups. For example, I’ll have a load of vocal tracks that I want to mix/process in their own separate groups (main vocals, harmonies, ad libs), which then I want to process all together, perhaps for side-chaining or for automating transitions. Or maybe I want to process sections of a kit in different ways (multiple kicks, multiple hats, snares/claps), then bring them back together to run them through a tape sim/compression or again some transition FX. I do this sort of stuff all the time in Logic and regularly hit the 3 summing stack limit!
Definitely a bit less crucial to me than the above points, but it’d be amazing to be able to do comping in CB3! Logic’s comping on iPad sucks, so there’s still nowhere on the platform with proper take lane functionality, which would be huge for my process personally!
Hi @somblebeats
Thanks for your kind feedback and to share feature requests with us!
Best,
Lars
how do you change to portrait mode on iphone ?
The update log says it's for "iPads and Android tablets" only.
I’ve been playing guitar a lot more into my iPad, so the amp sims should be cool to try! Input/output selection is great, so it’s having a built in tuner. Portrait mode is a nice option.
What does external monitor support entail? Same with Bluetooth recording can someone elaborate a bit?
If we get multi out AUv3 fx then Cubasis would be the first music program I launch without fail. I’m really itching for a multi-threading/core host with multi-out fx.
Congrats to the Cubasis team, sounds like a great release! And you got it shipped before year-end, now enjoy your holiday!
Hey Lars - really hope you guys consider portrait mode for the iPhone. I think this would be huge as no app has really done this yet.
Portrait on iPhone would be great but I expect it would need a lot more changes to the UI layout.
The update doesn’t seem to be available on ios 16.7 (the most recent available for my ipad). The appstore show 3.8, but there’s no option to update and no explanation about minimum o.s. Requirements. It’s a shame, because Cubasis 3 still works pretty well for me.
i feel like would use portrait mode on iphone more than in ipad. how it comes eventually
Ah, thanks, I missed that. Still a shame, though, but I guess times move on.