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SONAR 7 Academic Versions—Designed for Education
SONAR is developed by educated musicians who listen, understand, and respond to the discerning needs of our customers. Both SONAR 7 Producer Edition and SONAR 7 Studio Edition are widely used in the classroom by educators and students, and in professional studios by Grammy and Emmy winning producers, engineers, and composers.
And now, we have made the SONAR 7 Academic Versions even more powerul by including the SONAR Music Project teaching curriculum on an additional CD-ROM at no extra charge.
Check out the information below for more details on the included curriculum and the product features of SONAR 7 Producer Edition and SONAR 7 Studio Edition. To find out more about Cakewalk products in education, to learn about our generous academic pricing, and to find out where to purchase the Academic versions of SONAR 7 click here.

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SONAR Music Project teaching curriculum for SONAR 7
The Academic Editions of SONAR 7 include curriculum and teacher notes on an additional CD-ROM at no additional charge. This curriculum, developed by leading music educators will give you the tools you need to teach valuable skills to your students including:
- Improvising, producing, exploring and developing musical ideas
- Listening, analyzing, and comparing music with discrimination
- Adapting, refining, and improving work
- Expressive use of musical elements, devices, tonalities, and structures
- Exploring ways in which an arrangement can be created
- Devising an accompaniment to a given theme
- Developing Melodic Ideas, and creating melodic variations to fit a simple accompaniment
- Exploring the manipulation and extension of melodic ideas
- Developing formal structure
- Combining and arranging patterns and loops to achieve contrasts in rhythm and texture
- Using synthesizers, samplers, and audio effects to create original and appropriate sounds
- Using modified sounds as a basis for original ideas
- Combining ideas to create interest and contrast
- Balancing track levels to achieve a musical result
- Understanding how effects and EQ can enhance or change sounds
- Developing ideas to accompany video with a suitable musical atmosphere
- And much more
Download a sample of the SONAR Music Project teaching curriculum.
SONAR 7 Producer Edition
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SONAR 7 Producer Edition is the technology leading digital audio workstation that offers a remarkable experience at every step of your production—from its inspiring, open and customizable environment, to intuitive music creation and editing tools, to polished mixing, editing and delivery—with the recognized best audio quality in the industry.
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SONAR 7 Studio Edition |
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Built upon the same core feature set as SONAR 7 Producer Edition, SONAR 7 Studio Edition gives you the edge in music production—from recording audio and MIDI, composing with virtual instruments, remixing with loops, mixing with professional effects, to delivery of a polished final track—with the recognized best audio quality of the industry.
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