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• Integrated Step Sequencer view provides the most innovative step sequencer feature set available in any DAW today 
   
• Smart MIDI Tools—intuitively use one tool for multiple editing tasks; completely customizable
  
  
• Real-time Drag-Quantize allows selected notes and events to be quickly aligned with snap settings
  
  
• Multilane controller editing in Piano Roll view; controller data can be moved/copied across lanes; multiple controls can be viewed/edited per lane to economize screen real estate
  
  
• MIDI display features including MIDI Magnifier, MIDI Meters, and Velocity Colorizer
  
  
• Enhanced MIDI editing with functions for splitting, gluing, and muting notes
  
  
• More ACT (Active Controller Technology) presets for popular hardware
  
  
• New instruments: Session Drummer 2, Dimension LE (featuring Garritan Pocket Orchestra), Rapture LE, and DropZone Sample player/synth; Over 1000 instruments sounds
  
  
• Internal sidechaining for Sonitus:fx Compressor, Sonitus:fx Gate, and 3rd party VST plug-ins with sidechain (multi-input) capability
  
  
• External Insert Plug-in let's you insert and mix with external hardware effects and instruments with automatic delay compensation
  
  
• Boost 11 Peak Limiter
  
  
• Dim Solo keeps tracks in context by reducing volume of unsoloed tracks by 6, 12, or 18 dB instead of muting
  
  
• Drag & drop EQ settings across channels in the console view
  
  
• Shortcuts for assigning a series of audio inputs, and routing selected tracks/busses to the same input/output/main
  
  
• Original SMPTE time stamps now stored with clips with easy revert to original time stamp
  
  
• Right-click at cursor to Import audio/MIDI data
  
  
• Wave-64 support provides capabilities to record large scale (2 GB+) projects
  
  
• High bandwidth multi-track recording optimizations
  
  
• New file format import/export options including Sony Wave-64, AIF, CAF, FLAC, Sound Designer II
  
  
• Integrated Audio CD ripping and burning
  
  
• Cakewalk Publisher 2.0 for uploading and presenting music online