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    SONAR 7
    Producer Edition


    What's new

    Key features

    Step-sequencer

    Smart MIDI

    MIDI enhancements

    Instruments

    LP-64 Mastering EQ

    LP-64 Multiband

    Boost 11

    Sidechaining

    External hardware

    Mixing and recording

    Delivery

    Evolution

    System requirements

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    SONAR 7 Brochure

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    Evolution

    You're getting more than just SONAR 7 when you upgrade

    SONAR 7 Producer Edition is the ultimate production and music creation environment built on Cakewalk's experience of over 20 years of creating music software. In 2000, our flagship program, SONAR, was rolled out to rave reviews. With every new version SONAR adds more groundbreaking features, new instruments and effects, interface refinements, and more. In fact, when you upgrade to SONAR 7 from SONAR 1 for example, you're adding 7 years worth of exciting new features! Looking at the "new features" list for SONAR 7 Producer Edition doesn't always tell the whole story—read on to see what else you get when you upgrade today.

    Added in SONAR 2

    SONAR 2 refined many of the innovative features introduced in SONAR 1. This update brought extended compatibility into the picture along with many virtual instrument related refinements and essential project management tools. ReWire support added the capability to easily interface with other 3rd party audio applications like Reason or Project5. The Synth Rack was introduced, giving users an easy way to manage their virtual instrument plug-ins from one window. Multiple output support for virtual instruments allowed for a new generation of multitimbral synths, while the new custom MIDI drum mapping features made interfacing with hardware and software instruments easier than ever before. And who could forget the awesome loop-rearrainging capabilities of Cyclone DXi—it's still a secret weapon in many soft synth arsenals.

    SONAR 2 Highlights

    • ReWire 2.0 Support
    • Multi-port drum editing w/grid and pattern based enhancements and custom drum mapping
    • Multi output synth support and enhanced soft synth integration
    • Synth Rack
    • Improved automation
    • Cyclone DXi
    • Advanced project management: per project audio folders, intelligent file naming and more

     

    SONAR 3
    The Mixing Upgrade

    Among SONAR 3's many interface and workflow improvements, Cakewalk introduced a brand new Console view and enhanced bussing known as Universal Bus Architecture. With Universal Bus Architecture, you have an unlimited number of sends and busses at your disposal and nearly limitless routing capabilities. Mixing large projects is easier than ever before. Producer Edition also added the Lexicon Pantheon reverb, a per channel EQ and the brilliant Sonitus:fx Suite (which is now available in both Studio and Producer Edition). And let's not forget VST support, which allows SONAR users to incorporate a wider variety of effects and instruments into their mixes.

    SONAR 3 Highlights

    • Completely overhauled user interface
    • Enhanced Console view
    • Universal Bus Architecture
    • Track inspector—Always have access to a console strip from the track view
    • MIDI Groove Clips—roll out MIDI just like an audio loop
    • Confidence Recording—waveforms draw as you record
    • VST Support for both effects and instruments
    • Advanced MIDI Routing and Synth layering.

    SONAR 3 Producer Edition Highlights:

    • Per-track EQ
    • Sonitus:fx Suite
    • Lexicon Pantheon Reverb

     

    SONAR 4
    The Editor's Upgrade

    For virtually every user, it's the innovative editing tools introduced in SONAR 4 that will make your day-to-day work much, much easier. Easily comp together multiple takes of audio and MIDI with track layers and the new mute tool. Track folders allow you to group multiple tracks, including audio, MIDI, and instrument tracks for better organization and editing. The navigator view allows you to see an overview of even the most massive projects in once glance. Freeze instruments and effects for easy editing and to reduce the strain on your CPU.

    For professionals, SONAR 4 Producer Edition added true surround busses to SONAR's mix engine and over 30 surround formats for professional surround mixing. Not to mention we included great surround effects and SurroundBridge, which lets you use even stereo and mono plug-ins as surround plug-ins! Composers and broadcasters rely on the Video Thumbnail Pane and the ability to export video in multiple formats. POW-r Dithering was also introduced in SONAR 4 Producer Edition, which helps keeps the quality of your audio spotless when you render down to 16-bit for CD delivery.

    SONAR 4 Highlights:

    • Track Folders
    • Track Layers
    • Mute Tool—perfect for comping tracks
    • Multi-Clip editing (Slip, fades, etc.)
    • Freeze
    • Navigator View
    • Audio Metronome

    SONAR 4 Producer Edition Highlights

    • Surround mixing in over 30 formats
    • SurroundBridge
    • Sonitus:fx Surround Compressor
    • Video Thumbnail Pane and enhanced audio for video features
    • MPEX time scaling
    • POW-r Dithering


    SONAR 5

    Musician's Choice. Producer's Edge.

    SONAR 5 introduced an industry first: a 64-bit double precision audio engine, providing greater headroom than typical 32 bit audio engines. Clip-based effects allow you to process individual snippets of audio easily. Track Icons make it simpler to organize even the largest, most cluttered projects. Edit MIDI parts directly from the Track View with the convenience of inline MIDI editing.

    SONAR 5 Producer Edition introduced exclusives like Roland V-Vocal, the pitch correction and editing tool that makes vocal fixes painless. Perfect Space Convolution Reverb accurately recreates the ambience of natural room sounds, hardware and more. And let's not forget the assortment of awesome instruments including RXP REX player and Pentagon I, the monster analog-style synth designed by Rene Ceballos.

    vvocal ghost

    SONAR 5 Highlights

    • 64 Bit audio engine
    • Track Icons
    • 32 bit floating point audio file support
    • Clip based effects
    • Inline MIDI
    • New freehand and shape automation with tempo sync

    SONAR 5 Producer Edition Highlights

    • Roland V-Vocal
    • Perfect Space Convolution Reverb
    • Roland Groove Synth
    • REX file support with RXP REX Player
    • SFZ Sound Font-based sampler
    • PSYN II Synth
    • Pentagon I Synth


    SONAR 6

    Total Control >> Track Perfection >> Superior Sound

    SONAR 6 brought Total Control, Track Perfection and Superior Sound to your projects.

    SONAR 6 changed the way you work with instruments forever through its innovative new Active Controller Technology (ACT). SONAR 6 helped you tighten up your entire band with the revolutionary new AudioSnap feature set. And it helped you sound better than ever with the new VC-64 Vintage Channel and much more

     

    VC64 Vintage Channel

    SONAR 6 Highlights

    • AudioSnap
    • Active Controller Technology
    • iZotope Radius technolgy
    • New synth rack
    • Input Quantize
    • Crash recovery
    • Custom color schemes
    • Vista support

    SONAR 6 Producer Edition Highlights

    • VC-64 Vintage Channel
    • Session Drummer 2
    • AudioSnap multitrack audio quantize

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