The VST Tour will showcase Steinberg's popular Cubase VST 32, Virtual Studio Instruments, Virtual Studio Instruments, plus Steinberg's new Midex 8 MIDI interface and the Houston control surface.

The VST System is a collection of components and tools to make creating and recording music faster, easier and more enjoyable than ever before. Steinberg offers a no compromise system, at a fraction of the cost of other systems, with the highest level of integration and functionality.

Cubase VST 32, Steinberg's flagship audio sequencing application, is the heart of The VST System and offers up to 128 tracks of 32-bit audio, unlimited MIDI tracks, and true tape recording for analog tape sound. Apogee UV-22 dithering allows you to maintain the 32 bit floating point sound throughout the final mixdown stage. Linear Time Base, or LTB, found in the Midex 8 MIDI interface delivers the highest precision MIDI timing available. Cubase VST also includes 4 software instruments and Steinberg's Inwire Internet collaboration feature. ASIO drivers and Rewire make Cubase the most compatible and functional program available.

Mike Richardson will demonstrate the wide range of Virtual Studio Instruments from Steinberg and Native Instruments, including the new Waldorf Attack percussion synthesizer, HALion 32-bit sampler, LM-4 32-bit Drum Module, Model E Analog Synth, Waldorf PPG Wave 2.V classic wavetable synthesizer, and plug-ins from Native Instruments including B4, Battery, Pro 52, Dynamo, and Reaktor. Virtual Studio Instruments are the intelligent way to integrate new MIDI devices into your studio. They have many benefits over hardware instruments including low cost, sample accurate timing, integration in the 32 bit VST mixing engine as well as amazing sound quality.

Richardson will also demonstrate the Midex 8 and Houston. The Midex 8 is a new 8 in 8 out USB MIDI interface featuring a new concept in high speed MIDI Time Stamping techniques called Linear Time base. Simply put, the Midex 8 has its own hardware sequencer built into the interface, which bypasses the OS, for sub-millisecond timing accuracy. Houston is the first control surface designed specifically for Steinberg's Cubase and Nuendo, allowing just about every parameter to be accessed without a mouse including transport, volume, pan, effect sends, EQs, plug-ins as well as Virtual Studio Instruments parameters. Houston is the perfect companion piece to every Cubase and Nuendo user.

Users will have the opportunity to win a full VST Computer System, an $8000 value.