With Cakewalk's acquisition of RGC:audio in 2005, synth-development legend René Ceballos joined the Cakewalk development team. As a result of our continued collaboration and development, SONAR 7 now offers one of the most comprehensive and best sounding instrument collections available today. With the new instruments in SONAR 7 you get well over 1000 new instrument sounds and 1 GB of sample content.

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New instruments for SONAR 7 Producer Edition include:

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• Z3TA+ 1.5 — is an award-winning Waveshaping Synthesizer. It is a top-of-the line analog-style synthesizer with incredible sound shaping capabilities. The exclusive bandlimited Waveshaping technology has made Z3TA+ one the best and most respected synths in the industry. As a complete instrument, Z3TA+ is oriented to the professional musician and sound programmer looking for uncompromised sound quality and features. Visit the Z3TA+ product pages for a more in depth look at this instrument.
  
  "A favorite among soft synth fans, it offers custom waveshaping, killer filters, and built-in effects. This will be reason enough for many SONAR users to upgrade." — Computer Music
  
  
• Dimension LE — is a special version of the acclaimed Dimension Pro instrument from Cakewalk. Dimension LE features over 400 sound programs, ranging from real bass, organ and electric piano samples to cutting-edge synth sounds and rhythmic grooves. In addition, you get the special edition of the Garritan Pocket Orchestra, expressively programmed for Dimension LE, featuring orchestral instrument libraries of unrivaled quality that include strings, brass, woodwinds, keyboards, and percussion sounds. Dimension LE is powered by Cakewalk's Expression Engine providing several types of synthesis capabilities including multi-sample rendering, wavetable synthesis, waveguide synthesis, and, REX playback and manipulation.
  
  "The sounds are beautiful and useful." — Keyboard
  
  
  
  
• Rapture LE — this special version of the award winning Rapture synthesizer from Cakewalk makes its debut in SONAR 7. It includes over 200 programs and hundreds of oscillator shapes. Capable of producing rich, hypnotic, and rhythmic basses, leads, and pads, Rapture LE is perfect for performing and designing the modern synthesized sounds igniting today's pop, dance, and electronic music.
  
  

  "There are some amazing things the programmers are doing with modulation accross the six-element voices that make up Rapture patches."—Sound on Sound

• DropZone — is a drag & drop sampler and REX loop Editor. Just drop in a sample and the loop points and slices are visually displayed then you can quickly start manipulating and triggering slices or the entire loop. It has a keyboard display to show sample key mapping; 300MB of samples including pads & atmospheres, basses, pianos, drum kits; Dance & Hip Hop REX loops, and hundreds of wavetables.