Cinematic projects for Cubase: 33 free project files with notes on what each one demonstrates, linked to their original sources.
33 free project files
This is a free Cubase 15 template for Cinesamples Musio 1, built by HaPe Stoll of Audio-Worx. It comes with pre-built Musio instrument tracks organized with the Audio-Worx naming, colour and icon scheme, plus group and…
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Hiroaki of R-Koubou maintains a free, MIT-licensed collection of articulation mappings that is converted automatically into formats for several DAWs, including Cubase.
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Audio-Worx (HaPe Stoll) offers a free Cubase template for Spitfire's free LABS instruments, covering both Cubase 14 and Cubase 15.
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Audio-Worx (HaPe Stoll) offers a free pre-built Cubase template for The Crow Hill Company's Vault and Pocket Strings. The template has one track per Vault instrument and long, short and pluck tracks for Pocket Strings…
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HaPe Stoll of Audio-Worx built this free Cubase 15 template for Native Instruments Komplete 15 Ultimate. It provides pre-built instrument tracks for the Komplete libraries, organized with the Audio-Worx naming, colour…
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Audio-Worx (HaPe Stoll) offers a free pre-built Cubase template for Orchestral Tools Berlin Free Orchestra. The template has legato, long and short tracks for each instrument, keyswitch articulations with expression…
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Composer Masaharu shares a free expression map for Cinematic Studio Strings made for Cubase 15, whose refreshed expression maps add a delay compensation parameter.
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Audio-Worx (HaPe Stoll) offers a free pre-built Cubase template for Spitfire Symphony Orchestra Discover. The template has performance, long and short tracks for each instrument in Kontakt 7, keyswitch articulations…
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This free Cubase 14 template from Audio-Worx (HaPe Stoll) is built for Spitfire Audio's Albion One. It lays out the ensemble orchestral tracks by legato, long and short articulations, includes expression maps, and…
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Audio-Worx (HaPe Stoll) provides this free Cubase 14 template for EastWest's Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra running in the Opus player.
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EastWest's EW Templates 2 update adds a Hollywood Orchestra-only template, and this is its free Cubase version, introduced in a walkthrough video.
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Audio-Worx (HaPe Stoll) offers a free orchestral Cubase template for Spitfire Symphony Orchestra, provided as a Cubase 14 version (v6.0) with a separate v7.0.1 build for Cubase 15.
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Kamil Rzeczkowski shares the Cubase orchestral template behind his video on getting a cinematic orchestral sound with no expensive libraries.
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Spitfire Audio's Customer Experience team built official DAW templates for BBC Symphony Orchestra, and this is the Cubase Pro template for the free BBCSO Discover edition.
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Composer Alex Pfeffer walks through how he builds a clean orchestral Cubase template for film and trailer music and shares the finished template.
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Audio-Worx (HaPe Stoll) offers a free pre-built Cubase template for Orchestral Tools SINEfactory. The template has long and short tracks for the free SINEfactory libraries such as Lucent, Rotary, Ratio, Crucible and…
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Audio-Worx (HaPe Stoll) offers a free pre-built Cubase template for Fracture Sounds' free Blueprint libraries. The template has long and short tracks for each Blueprint instrument in Kontakt 7 and 8, keyswitch…
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This free Cubase 14 template by Audio-Worx (HaPe Stoll) combines ProjectSAM's Symphobia 1 and 2 with the free The Free Orchestra 1 and 2.
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Audio-Worx (HaPe Stoll) built this free Cubase 14 template for Spitfire's free BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover plugin. It contains per-instrument tracks with expression maps, the Audio-Worx naming, colour and icon…
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EastWest Sounds provides an official Cubase template on its 'Start Making Music' page as part of the ComposerCloud+ template set.
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Film and TV composer Guy Michelmore explains how he builds an orchestral template in 2024, working in Cubase, and offers the finished template for free.
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This is Steinberg's official Iconica Sketch orchestral template for Cubase 13, highlighted in a MIDI playthrough of the demo piece 'Unshaken' by Martin Wiese, which was written using it.
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Audio engineer and composer Tormod Liseth of Sifter Studios builds a modular film-scoring template for Cubase across three videos, and this third part covers arrange and mix window configurations, miscellaneous tracks…
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The Japanese site aredo.jp reproduces the opening theme of the NHK drama 'Kirin ga Kuru' using nothing but Cubase Pro 10.5, as an exercise in orchestral-style writing with bundled tools.
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Composer and audio director Dara Crawford shares free Cubase and Nuendo expression maps for Audio Imperia's Nucleus orchestral library, made when no maps were available for it.
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Sound designer and composer Stefano Maccarelli shares a hybrid cinematic scoring template for Cubase Pro 10 and 10.5, built around Zero-G's ETHERA Gold 2 vocal library.
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Forum user Macster shares two free Cubase drum maps for the Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 Orchestral expansions 1 and 2 on the Steinberg forums.
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Yves Stadler shares eleven free Cubase expression maps for the Native Instruments Symphony Series orchestral libraries on GitHub.
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EastWest offers EW Templates 2 as a free download for ComposerCloud+ and Hollywood Orchestra users, and this is the Cubase version of the ComposerCloud+ template.
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ThinkSpace Education offers Guy Michelmore's templates for Musio, the Cinesamples sample library subscription. The package includes empty templates for Cubase 12 and Logic Pro X to start composing with Musio quickly…
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Tobias J. Escher of OrchestralTemplates.com shares two free Cubase expression map downloads on the site's Resources page.
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zwaves offers a single Cubase expression map for the Lite Ensemble patch of Cinematic Studio Strings as a free preview of the creator's full set of CSS maps.
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leBlom.com, a site of notes on sampling, Kontakt and Cubase, offers a page of free Cubase expression maps packed as one zip per library.
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