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  SONAR 6 Producer Edition is Here!
One of the most eagerly anticipated products of 2006 is Cakewalk's SONAR 6 Producer Edition, and we're happy to report that this 64-bit Dual Core-ready software is in stock right now, ready to ship right to your door! What's so special about SONAR 6 (aside from the enhanced 64-bit sound quality, of course)? Glad you asked. SONAR 6 Producer Edition can handle a project with up to 150 tracks, 17 real-time virtual instruments, 42 effects plug-ins, plus full-screen video playback, all synced up perfectly and running simultaneously using just one Dual Core PC! SONAR 6 also provides users with a unique feature set that includes:

• AudioSnap for multitrack audio quantization.
• VC-64 Vintage Channel, which delivers a buttery smooth sound, dual EQ and compression stages, analog component modeling, and presets created by top producers and engineers.
• Session Drummer 2 with true pro-quality multi-sampled drum kits and hundreds of usable drum patterns.
• Roland V-Vocal Variphase Processor.
• Surround Mixing in over 30 different formats.
• SurroundBridge technology for adapting stereo VST effects into SONAR's surround sound environment.
• Many more powerful features!

  New In Stock At Sweetwater

• Sony Vegas 7 + DVD Architect - The Vegas+DVD Production Suite combines Vegas 7, DVD Architect 4, and Dolby Digital AC-3 encoding software to offer an integrated environment for all phases of professional video, audio, DVD, and broadcast production. This suite allows you to edit and process DV, HDV, SD/HD-SDI, and all XDCAM formats in real time, fine-tune audio with precision, and author surround sound, dual-layer DVDs. Buy Vegas 7+DVD from Sweetwater between October 1, 2006 and December 31, 2006 and receive a $75 rebate plus Cinescore software (a $249.95 value!). Requests must be postmarked by January 14, 2007.
• Fender Classic Player Baja Telecaster - The Classic Player Series started off with Custom Shop builders creating their own "dream list" of features and specs. No ideas would be off limits and no feature would be excluded in creating these customized, affordable guitars, which would be built in Fender's state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Ensenada, Mexico. Master Builder Chris Fleming came up with this '50s-style Tele, which boasts features like a soft "V" neck profile, vintage-style hardware, custom wiring, and special 4-way switching. The Classic Player Baja Telecaster also sports custom pickups (a "Twisted Tele" in the neck with a Broadcaster in the bridge) and a single-ply parchment pickguard.

  Guitar Of The Day
Nestled at the base of Takamine Mountain in Sakashita, Japan (which is where the company got its name) Takamine has spent over 40 years perfecting the art and craft of guitarmaking. What began as a small family business has evolved into one of the industry's leading manufacturers. And nothing illustrates Takamine build quality better than the TF250SMC natural-finish Flame Maple Jumbo. This natural blond beauty features a single-cutaway jumbo body with solid Sitka spruce top and a premium figured maple back and sides. Takamine craftsmen inlaid gorgeous pearl and abalone position markers on the ebony fingerboard, while the soundhole rosette also shimmers with the beauty of hand-inlaid abalone. Played acoustically, the TF250SMC delivers all the smooth fundamentals and gossamer overtones you'd expect from a guitar built with such exquisite tone woods. What's more, jumbos can fill a room with sound better than almost any other acoustic guitar. But that's just part of the story, because this jumbo also comes standard with Takamine's CTP-1 "Cool Tube" preamp, an onboard acoustic-electric preamp that utilizes a 12AU7 dual-triode vacuum tube. With bass and treble tone controls, semi-parametric midrange, a second source input and blend control plus a chromatic tuner, the CTP-1 packs an astounding number of features into a compact package that doesn't compromise the instrument's "unplugged" tone. The "Cool Tube" preamp gets its name from Takamine's unique technology that allows the tube to run at very low voltages, so it doesn't glow or produce high levels of heat. In fact, the tube runs at only two or three degrees above ambient temperature. Naturally a guitar this special ships with a deluxe plush-lined hardshell case.