SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Cakewalk is a company of musicians with a mission to help other musicians. We don’t just work here; we all use SONAR on a daily basis to make our own music. When it came time to design the new features in SONAR 8.5 we decided to focus on what we felt would be the absolute best enhancements to help us all be more creative and produce better sounding music. We’ve added new beat creation and arrangement tools, a new drum instrument loaded with stellar sounding kits, enhanced audio quantizing, new multi-stage effect plug-ins, and so much more. We’re excited about the new version 8.5, and we’re sure you will be too. SONAR 8.5—the musician’s digital audio workstation.

SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Alex Westner

Director of Product Managment

Instrument: Keytar, Vocals
Favorite SONAR feature: Matrix View

SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Blaine Perry

Systems Administrator
Instrument: Vocals, Drums
Favorite SONAR feature: Track Templates, Roland V-Vocal


SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Brandon Ryan

Director of Channel Marketing
Instrument: Keys, Guitar, Vocals
Favorite SONAR feature: Matrix View

SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Carl Jacobson

VP of Marketing
Instrument: Guitar, Sitar, Computer
Favorite SONAR feature: Loop Construction View

SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Dan Abreu

Director - U.S. Consumer Sales Channel
Instrument: Saxophone, Keys
Favorite SONAR feature: VX-64 Vocal Strip

SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Dan Kaplan

Graphic Designer
Instrument: Guitar, Keys
Favorite SONAR feature: Session Drummer 3


SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

David Guerette

Technical Support
Instrument: Tenor Sax, Keys, Drums
Favorite SONAR feature: Per-Track Arpeggiator

SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Feuler Tovar

Release Engineer
Instrument: Bass, Keys
Favorite SONAR feature: Matrix View

SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Gina Garda

Director of Business Development
Instrument: Guitar, Piano, Vocals
Favorite SONAR feature: Active Controller Technology (ACT)

SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Greg Hendershott

Founder and CEO
Instrument: Keys
Favorite SONAR feature: Matrix View


SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Ian Sutton

Marketing-Communications
Instrument: Pedal Steel Guitar, Guitar, Drums
Favorite SONAR feature: VX-64 Vocal Strip, Session Drummer 3

SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Jamie O'Connell

Software Engineer
Instrument: Bass, Guitar, Hawaiian Steel Guitar
Favorite SONAR feature: Per-Track Arpeggiator

SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

James Balnaves

Software Engineer
Instrument: Synth, Vocals, Clarinet
Favorite SONAR feature: Step Sequencer 2.0

SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Jimmy Landry

Artist Relations Manager
Instrument: Guitar, Piano, Drums, Bass, Vocals
Favorite SONAR feature: Per-Track Arpeggiator


SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Jim Lima

Principal QA Engineer
Instrument: Guitar
Favorite SONAR feature: Session Drummer 3


SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

John Sasor

Technical Support
Instrument: Guitar, Bass Guitar
Favorite SONAR feature: Session Drummer 3

SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Josh Langberg

QA Engineer
Instrument: Keys, Fiddle, Accordion, Autoharp, Scrap-metal drums
Favorite SONAR feature: Step Sequencer 2.0

SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Keith Albright

Software Engineer
Instrument: Keys, Drums, Recorder
Favorite SONAR feature: Step Sequencer 2.0


SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Lance Riley

Technical Support
Instrument: Vocals, Piano, Harmonica
Favorite SONAR feature: AudioSnap 2.0


SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Lars Wicklund

Customer Service
Instrument: Bass, Guitar
Favorite SONAR feature: Session Drummer 3

SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Marcus Dandurand

Direct Marketing Manager
Instrument: Guitar, Banjo
Favorite SONAR feature: Session Drummer 3, Dimension Pro

SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Matt Koelsch

MI Accounts Manager - Worldwide
Instrument: Vocals, Guitar
Favorite SONAR feature: VX-64 Vocal Strip


SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Mike Trujillo

Technical Sales Representative
Instrument: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Mandolin, Keys, Cello, Bazuki, Vocals
Favorite SONAR feature: 64-bit Technology


SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Morten Saether

Senior Technical Writer
Instrument: Guitar
Favorite SONAR feature: Flexible Bussing Architecture, AudioSnap 2.0

SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Noel Borthwick

Chief Technical Officer
Instrument: Guitar
Favorite SONAR feature: Bus Waveform Preview, Flexible Mixing and Rendering

SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Rich Curtis

Technical Sales Representative
Instrument: Drums, Keys, Vocals, Guitar, Bass
Favorite SONAR feature: Matrix View


SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Seth Kellogg

Technical Support
Instrument: Bass, Guitar
Favorite SONAR feature: Session Drummer 3


SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Stephen Cox

Technical Support
Instrument: Guitar, Keys
Favorite SONAR feature: Session Drummer 3

SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Steve Thomas

Director of Public Relations
Instrument: Guitar
Favorite SONAR feature: Faster than real-time rendering

SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Tara Zanett

Event Coordinator
Instrument: Vocals
Favorite SONAR feature: Roland V-Vocal 1.5


SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Zac Kenney

MI Accounts Manager
Instrument: Guitar
Favorite SONAR feature: Multitrack Recording, Track Folders


SONAR 8.5 - Created by musicians, for musicians.

Zyler Vega

Product Manager
Instrument: Reality Engineer
Favorite SONAR feature: Rapture LE

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