{"product_id":"cubase-artist-16-upgrade-from-ai","title":"Cubase Artist 16 Upgrade from AI","description":"\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUpgrade from a qualifying Steinberg Cubase AI license to Cubase Artist 16 and expand your music production capabilities with a comprehensive set of recording, editing, MIDI sequencing, and mixing tools. Designed for musicians, songwriters, composers, and producers, Cubase Artist 16 provides unlimited audio, MIDI, and instrument tracks, 12 included instruments and libraries, 75 effects, more than 2,600 sounds, and over 20 GB of samples and loops.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCubase Artist 16 introduces powerful creative tools, including Instrument Stacks for combining multiple VST instruments, sampler tracks, and drum tracks into a single playable track. DrumChain provides dedicated drum processing, while the Module FM library adds contemporary FM-based sounds. 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