Cubase 1.0 Atari

Cubase For Atari – Monochrome monitor

April 1989 — Originally called Cubit, but changed to Cubase due to copyright reasons, this was the much awaited succesor to Pro-24. Cubase for Atari was MIDI only and ran on the Atari 520ST and Atari 1040ST. Although it would run on a colour screen the best resolution was obtained by using the SM 124 monochrome monitor which gave, for its time, an impressive resolution of 640×400

The main innovation of Cubase for the Atari was the graphic arrange page. The Arrange Page, since copied by just about every other similar product, allowed for the graphic representation of the composition using a vertical list of tracks and a horizontal timeline.

1990 — Cubase 1.0 is released for the Apple Macintosh