Everything you need for Cubase
A free harmony starter, a free preset pack with a Cubase install guide, our own packs at real prices, and a short list of plugins that genuinely cost nothing.
Start free: the Cubase harmony starter
Chord MIDI, pad loops and a written setup guide for Cubase. We wrote every file, and the same material is free elsewhere, so we do not charge for it.
- DAW packFree
Harmony Starter for Cubase
16 progressions, 4 pad loops and a setup guide for Cubase — free
A free harmony starter for Cubase: chord-progression MIDI written one chord per bar, matching pad loops at 90 BPM, and a written setup guide covering importing, quantising and voicing the files in Cubase. Original files, royalty-free, no account needed.
- 16 chord-progression MIDI files (4 progressions × 4 keys)
- 4 pad loops at 90 BPM, key named in every filename
- Setup guide for Cubase: import, tempo, quantise, voicing
- Royalty-free for personal and commercial releases
.zip — 16 × .mid + 4 × .wav + guide
Plugins & presets for Cubase
The synth is Vital, which is free from its makers — we do not host or resell anyone's plugin. What we made is the sound: six patches programmed here, plus a step-by-step install guide for Cubase. Lab Module 10 walks you through installing them.
- Plugin packFree
ChordCraft Plugin & Preset Pack for Cubase
6 original synth presets, 4 chord MIDI files and a Cubase install guide — free
Six patches we programmed ourselves for Vital, the free wavetable synth: a wide pad, soft keys, a pluck, a sub bass, an air bell and an evolving stack. They install as ordinary preset files, and the guide walks you through getting them into Cubase and re-saving them as track presets so they open like any other instrument. Four chord MIDI files are included so you can hear each patch on a real progression.
- 6 original .vital presets: pad, keys, pluck, sub, bell, motion stack
- 4 chord-progression MIDI files at 90 BPM in C
- INSTALL.txt: installing Vital, the presets and and re-saving them as track presets
- Suggested free mix chain for each patch
- Royalty-free for personal and commercial releases
.zip — 6 × .vital + 4 × .mid + install guide
Free: the mix chain pack
Four harmony MIDI parts to practise on and six written mix chains — chord bus, bass, drum bus, vocal or lead, master and gain staging — using only the plugins already in Cubase. Free, and ours.
- Template packFree
ChordCraft Mix Chain Pack
Four harmony MIDI parts and six mix chains for Cubase, FL Studio and Ableton — free
A practice mix and the chains to mix it with. Four of our own MIDI parts at 90 BPM in C give you something real to work on, and six written sheets take the guesswork out of the chord bus, the bass, the drum bus, a vocal or lead, the master and gain staging. Every setting uses plugins that already came with your DAW. Lab Module 13 builds all of it lesson by lesson.
- 4 harmony MIDI parts: two chord parts, a bassline and a top line
- 6 mix chain sheets: chord bus, bass, drum bus, vocal/lead, master, gain staging
- Stock-plugin settings named for Cubase, FL Studio and Ableton Live
- Royalty-free for personal and commercial releases
.zip — 4 × .mid + 6 chain sheets + install guide
Free: the mastering pack
Four harmony MIDI parts to bounce and master, and six written sheets for the mastering chain — references and monitoring, corrective EQ, glue compression, stereo width and saturation, the limiter and loudness targets, and the export QC — using only the plugins already in Cubase. Free, and ours.
- Template packFree
ChordCraft Mastering Pack
Four harmony MIDI parts and six mastering sheets for Cubase, FL Studio and Ableton — free
A finished mix to master and the sheets to master it with. Four of our own MIDI parts at 90 BPM in C bounce into a real stereo mix, and six written sheets walk the mastering chain: references and monitoring, corrective EQ, glue compression, stereo width and saturation, the limiter and loudness targets, and the export QC. Every setting uses plugins that already came with your DAW. Lab Module 14 builds all of it lesson by lesson.
- 4 harmony MIDI parts: two chord parts, a bassline and a top line
- 6 mastering sheets: references, EQ, glue compression, stereo & saturation, limiter & loudness, export QC
- Stock-plugin settings named for Cubase, FL Studio and Ableton Live
- Royalty-free for personal and commercial releases
.zip — 4 × .mid + 6 mastering sheets + install guide
Paid packs — original ChordCraft material
These are the packs we record, program and write ourselves: MIDI, drums, samples and written synth and mix recipes. They load in Cubase exactly as they do in any other DAW, and they are royalty-free for your releases.
- MIDI$12
Producer MIDI Pack
48 progressions, eight styles, six keys each
Chord-progression MIDI written one chord per bar so you can drag a file onto any instrument track and hear the harmony instantly. Styles cover pop, minor lift, jazz ii-V-I, lo-fi, house, trap, gospel and cinematic.
- 8 progression styles × 6 keys (C, D, Eb, F, G, A)
- One chord per bar, 4/4, channel 1 — transposes cleanly
- Works in FL Studio, Ableton Live, Cubase and anything that reads MIDI
- README with import steps for each DAW
.zip — 48 × .mid
- Drum kit$15
ChordCraft Drum Kit One
22 one-shots plus 6 groove patterns
A small, clean kit designed for writing rather than showing off: punchy kicks, dry snares, tight and open hats, layered claps — plus GM-mapped MIDI grooves so you have a beat under your chords in seconds.
- 6 kicks, 6 snares, 6 hats (closed + open), 4 claps
- 6 groove MIDI patterns: four-on-floor, boom bap, trap, half-time, shuffle, breakbeat
- GM drum mapping (36 kick / 38 snare / 42 hat)
- 44.1 kHz 16-bit mono WAV
.zip — 22 × .wav + 6 × .mid
- Sample pack$19
Sample Pack Vol. 1
12 chord & pad loops, 12 tonal one-shots
Playable harmony you can chop, filter and layer. Every loop is four bars at 90 BPM with the progression named in the filename, so it lines up with the MIDI pack note for note.
- 6 chord loops + 6 matching pad loops, 90 BPM
- 6 bass one-shots and 6 pluck/key one-shots
- Key and progression named in every filename
- Royalty-free for personal and commercial releases
.zip — 24 × .wav
- Presets$14
Preset & Template Pack
Synth recipes, mix chains and DAW templates
DAW-agnostic recipe sheets: every synth patch is written out parameter by parameter so you can build it in Serum, Vital, Sylenth, Massive or your DAW's stock synth — no installer, no version mismatch.
- 5 synth recipes: warm analog pad, pluck lead, sub bass, lo-fi keys, wide stab
- 3 mix chains: vocal, drum bus, master
- 3 session templates: FL Studio, Ableton Live, Cubase
- Plain-text sheets that never expire with a plugin version
.zip — 11 × .txt
- Bundle$39
Producer Toolkit — Complete Bundle
All four packs, one download
Everything above in a single zip: the MIDI pack, drum kit, sample pack and preset/template pack. $21 less than buying them separately.
- Producer MIDI Pack (48 files)
- ChordCraft Drum Kit One (28 files)
- Sample Pack Vol. 1 (24 files)
- Preset & Template Pack (11 sheets)
.zip — contains all four packs
Free plugins worth installing for Cubase
We do not sell other people's software. These are free downloads from the makers themselves — follow the link, read their licence, and install from their site. Names are listed only so you know what works with Cubase; no affiliation or endorsement is implied.
- Free
Vital
by Vital Audio
Wavetable synth with a generous free tier — the synth every ChordCraft preset runs on.
Get it from Vital Audio - Free
Surge XT
by Surge Synth Team
Open-source hybrid synth with hundreds of patches when you want a sound rather than to build one.
Get it from Surge Synth Team - Free
LABS
by Spitfire Audio
Free sampled strings, keys and choirs that sit well under a chord progression.
Get it from Spitfire Audio - Free
TDR Nova
by Tokyo Dawn Records
Free dynamic EQ, used in the chord-bus chain in the template pack.
Get it from Tokyo Dawn Records
Learn it, then use it
The packs make more sense once you have run the Cubase lessons — the course covers the same windows and moves the setup guide refers to.
Cubase and the plugin names above are trademarks of their respective owners. MooneChild Enterprise, LLC is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by them, and sells only its own original files.