What's New in SONAR 4

The information in this article applies to:

• SONAR 4 Producer Edition
• SONAR 4 Studio Edition

• Surround Mixing (SONAR Producer only)
• SurroundBridge (Surround Effects Linker) (SONAR Producer only)
• Joystick Support (SONAR Producer only)
• Lexicon Pantheon Surround Reverb (SONAR Producer only)
• Sonitus Surround Compressor (SONAR Producer only)
• Video Thumbnail Track (SONAR Producer only)
• Track Folders
• Freeze Synths or Tracks
• Loop Construction View Enhancements
• Bus-able Audio Metronome
• Group Editing (Multi clip Slip-Editing, fades, and splits)
• Take Management and Comping Enhancements
• Track layers
• Powerful crossfade tool for cropping overlapping clips
• Mute Tool - Clip-based (Clip Mute) or time-based within a clip, and Isolating (Clip Soloing)
• Video Export to QuickTime, Windows Media Video, and AVI
• Enhanced Key Bindings
• Nudging
• Navigator view
• Audition (Selection Playback)
• Cakewalk TTS-1 DXi Synth
• POW-r Dithering (SONAR Producer only)
• Prosoniq MPEX Time Scaling (SONAR Producer only)
• Configurable RMS and Peak Meter Ballistics
• Six stereo panning laws
• Powerful presets for frequently used export settings
• Export buses and tracks into a composite mixdown, or as individual files
• WMA9, 5.1 WMA9 Pro, and WMA9 Lossless Encoding
• Open support for external command-line encoders
• Color Enhancements (Console view and clips)

Please see the New Features in SONAR 4 section in the online Help for more information. You can access this Help topic from Help-What's New.

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