SONAR Home Studio
Version 7 Info

SONAR Home Studio 7 and SONAR Home Studio 7 XL feature the power of Cakewalk's flagship product SONAR paired with a feature set, price-point, and ease-of-use geared towards home studio owners and budget-conscious musicians.

SONAR Home Studio Version 7 Highlights

  • Streamlined user interface for better workflow
  • Enhanced Loop Explorer to find and audition both audio and MIDI loops
  • Workflow enhancements to help users quickly create new tracks and audio routings for better mixes
  • Instrument Tracks to demystify the soft synth experience
  • Tutorials to get users up and running quickly, even with no prior recording experience

SONAR Home Studio 7 XL

SONAR Home Studio 7 XL is the premium-edition of SONAR Home Studio that ships with additional instruments, effects and loop libraries. SONAR Home Studio XL Exclusives:

  • Studio Instruments back up band (individual VSTis for Drums, Electric Bass, Electric Piano, and String Section) with a new expansion pack from Digital Sound Factory
  • Dimension LE combining real and synthesized instrument sounds
  • Garritan Pocket Orchestra for Dimension LE providing high quality orchestral sounds
  • Studio Devil VGA+ Guitar Amp Simulator
  • Step Sequencer for programming drum parts and synth lines
  • Boost 11 Peak Limiter for maximizing the punch of your final mix

Media  

SONAR Home Studio 7 ships with one DVD. SONAR Home Studio 7 XL ships with two DVDs.

U.S. Pricing and Availability

  • SONAR Home Studio Version 6 has a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $139 U.S
  • SONAR Home Studio Version 6 XL has an MSRP of $209 U.S.

All registered Home Studio 6 customers can upgrade to SONAR Home Studio Version 7 directly for $59.00 U.S. Existing Home Studio 6 XL customers can upgrade to SONAR Home Studio Version 7 XL for $59.00

Pricing and Availability Outside of the U.S.

SONAR Home Studio 7 and SONAR Home Studio 7 XL will ship with English, French and German printed documentation; the included electronic Quick Start guides will ship in these languages as well as Italian and Spanish.

SONAR Home Studio 7 is available through Roland and Edirol distribution partners. In Europe, SONAR Home Studio 7 has a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of €105.00/£71.00 inc. VAT, and SONAR Home Studio 7 XL has an MSRP of € 158.00/£107.00 inc. VAT.

Upgrades are available to registered SONAR Home Studio customers and other Cakewalk customers in Europe direct from Cakewalk.com or through the retail channel starting at €37.00/£25.00.

For Localized Pricing and Availability visit:

System Requirements

Minimum

Recommended

Operating System

Windows XP (32-bit) / Vista (32-bit) / Mac OS X with Boot Camp

Processor Speed

Intel® Pentium® 4 1.3 GHz, or AMD™ Athlon XP 1500+ or higher

Intel® Pentium® 4 2.8 GHz [EM64T], or AMD™ Athlon 64 2800+or higher

RAM

512 MB

1 GB or higher

Graphics (resolution, color depth)
1024 x 768, 16-bit color
1280 x 960, 32-bit color

Hard Disk Space

100 MB for core program

6 GB for program and content

Hard Disk Type
Any
EIDE/Ultra DMA (7200 RPM) or SATA
MIDI Interface*
Windows-compatible
Audio Interface**
Windows-compatible
Optical Drive
DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R, or DVD+/-RW for installation, CD-R or CD-RW capability required for CD audio disc burning
Web Server Access***
Available web server space with FTP access priviledges


* Required to connect to external MIDI devices
** Required for audio playback. See www.cakewalk.com/PCresource/ for a complete list of recommended audio devices
*** Cakewalk Publisher requires you to have available web server space with FTP access privileges. An internet connection is required for music uploading. A broadband connection is recommended


Note: SONAR does not support Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, or NT. QuickTime support requires QuickTime 6 or higher.

 

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