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If you decide you don't want your order, you can return it within 14 days of receiving it. Provided your product hasn't been activated in that time, you can exchange it for a different product, or get a refund.
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This does not affect your statutory rights.
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If you decide your order isn't suitable for any reason you can return it - just let us know within 30 days of receiving it. Please keep hold of all the original packaging until you're sure you want to keep the order.
Eligibility for Money Back Guarantee
For hygiene and software licensing reasons, some items are only eligible for our Money Back Guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging with all software still "unregistered."
Details of exclusions are shown within the product descriptions.
Products include:
- Monitors and Headphones
- Earplugs and Ear Protection
- Reeds and mouthpieces for woodwind and brass instruments
- Mouth and Lip-Care Products
- CDs, DVDs and Software
We can collect your return for a small fee, or you can send it back to us yourself. The collection fee can be found in the returns information on each product's page on Gear4music.
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This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 60 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
We are unable to accept returns of any custom made items designed to work together as a unique package and some items are only eligible for money back guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging. For full information on our returns policy, please refer to our returns and refunds information guide.
Key Features
Cubase Pro 16 Upgrade from AI is an upgrade path that lets you access the latest flagship Cubase Pro 16. Cubase Pro 16 is a professional DAW designed for producers, composers, songwriters, and engineers working on demanding music productions. Providing a complete environment for recording, composing, editing, mixing, and mastering, Cubase Pro 16 combines advanced MIDI and audio tools with professional routing, monitoring, and mixing capabilities.
New Instrument Stacks let you combine multiple VST instruments into a single playable track, making complex sound design and orchestral arrangements easier to manage. Enhanced Stem Separation 2 introduces dedicated piano and guitar extraction, while new Spectral AudioWarp modes provide greater flexibility for creative audio manipulation.
Designed for large-scale studio sessions, Cubase Pro 16 features extended ASIO-Guard processing for increased CPU headroom, alongside comprehensive scoring tools, integrated Dolby Atmos mixing, and streamlined external hardware integration. Cubase Pro 16 is the perfect solution if you're producing electronic music, recording bands, or composing for film and television, Cubase Pro 16 provides the creative flexibility and technical control to manage every stage of your production.
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Create detailed instrument arrangements while keeping your project organised with the new Instrument Stacks feature. Cubase Pro 16 lets you combine multiple VST instruments, sampler tracks, and drum tracks into a single playable instrument, allowing you to build layered sounds without managing each instrument as a separate track. Individual filtering for each layer gives you control over how different sounds interact, making it easier to combine synth textures, reinforce bass sounds, or develop complex orchestral arrangements. With unified controls, you can manage your layered instruments more efficiently and spend less time navigating between tracks.
MIDI programming is also more flexible thanks to several Key Editor improvements. The new Strum function introduces adjustable timing variations between notes, helping programmed chords sound more natural and expressive. Meanwhile, the Stretch function lets you resize melodies, basslines, and chord progressions to fit different sections of your arrangement without manually repositioning individual notes. Expanded MIDI 2.0 expression support provides additional control over performance details and orchestral articulations, making it easier to develop expressive parts with greater precision.
Take greater control over recorded material with Cubase Pro 16's expanded audio editing capabilities. Enhanced Stem Separation 2 improves the quality of extracted audio elements and introduces dedicated piano and guitar separation, giving you more options when working with existing recordings.
New Spectral AudioWarp modes expand your creative processing options with extreme time-stretching and pitch-shifting capabilities. You can transform vocals, reshape instrumental recordings, manipulate drum sounds, or experiment with complete mixes while retaining detailed control over the processing. For projects involving imported recordings, the redesigned Tempo Detection workflow helps you identify and match tempo information more efficiently, reducing the amount of manual adjustment needed to synchronise audio with your session.
Cubase Pro 16 also includes integrated VariAudio editing, allowing you to adjust vocal pitch, timing, and intonation directly within your project. This gives you precise control over individual performances without having to move audio into separate editing software, helping maintain a consistent workflow throughout recording, editing, and mixing.
Cubase Pro 16 introduces a selection of new instruments, effects, and sound libraries designed to make music production more flexible. DrumChain provides a dedicated multi-effects processor for shaping drum sounds, allowing you to add punch, improve clarity, and reinforce low-end weight within a single processing environment.
For vocal production, VocalTouch offers streamlined controls for shaping vocal sounds, helping you make tonal adjustments quickly while keeping your attention on the overall mix. Omnivocal Basic provides an additional tool for developing vocal ideas during songwriting, making it useful when sketching melodies or experimenting with vocal parts before recording a final performance.
The new Module FM library expands HALion Sonic with over 200 presets based on FM synthesis, including leads, keys, basses, and evolving textures. These provide additional starting points for electronic production, sound design, and layered arrangements, reducing the need to build every sound from scratch. Five new sample packs also introduce material covering Afro House, Beats & Breaks, K-Pop, Latin Vibes, and Organic Sessions.
Alongside these additions, Cubase Pro 16 includes 11 virtual instrument libraries, 96 effects, and over 20GB of samples and loops. Integration with Waves Illugen also lets you generate and import custom samples into your projects, with a two-month subscription voucher included through your Steinberg account.
Cubase Pro 16 is equipped to handle complex recording, mixing, and scoring sessions, with processing improvements and expanded studio integration designed for professional workflows. Extended ASIO-Guard provides additional processing headroom when working with large track counts and CPU-intensive plug-ins, helping you manage demanding arrangements without constantly simplifying your project. Multi-core processing and plug-in delay compensation further support complex sessions, keeping your production environment responsive as arrangements and effects chains become more detailed.
With 16 sends and eight cue sends available, you have greater flexibility when configuring effects routing, headphone mixes, and monitoring arrangements. This is particularly useful for multitrack recording sessions where performers require different monitor balances, or for complex mixes involving multiple effects and signal paths. For immersive audio projects, integrated Dolby Atmos production provides the tools needed to create and mix spatial audio directly within Cubase.
Film composers and post-production engineers also benefit from comprehensive scoring and notation features, alongside support for multiple video outputs. This makes it easier to work with picture across different displays while developing detailed musical arrangements. Additionally, the redesigned Settings window brings preferences, key commands, project configuration, and audio connections into one searchable interface, with changes applied without closing the window. Combined with customisable workspaces, macros, and Logical Editors, these improvements help you build a production environment around the way you prefer to work.
