: This version pioneered the ability to treat external hardware processors as VST plugins within the mixer, complete with automatic delay compensation.

Steinberg Cubase SX 3.1.1.944, released in late 2005, represents a significant milestone in the history of Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs). It was one of the last major updates in the "SX" series before Steinberg rebranded the software simply as "Cubase" starting with version 4. Key Features of Cubase SX 3.1

: Real-time time-stretching and pitch-shifting allowed loops to automatically sync to the project tempo, similar to features found in ACID or Ableton Live at the time.