A Tremendous Music Creation, Production, and Publication Suite!
SONAR 8 Producer Edition is Cakewalk's ultimate music production and music creation software suite, giving you all the tools you need to see your inspiration through to radio-ready, final projects - and then some! SONAR 8 Producer Edition is packed with all the world-class virtual instruments and pro audio effects included in the Studio Edition, yet adds 18 more premium effects, tools and instruments to really polish and professionalize your tracks. Ready to start creating, sequencing, mixing, mastering, and publishing music? It's all inside Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition.
Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition at a Glance:- Start to finish - all the tools you need to make and produce music
- Intuitive environment to work within
- Includes a tremendous amount of virtual instruments
- More professional plug-ins and audio effects than any version of SONAR
- Unlimited tracks and track templates, for getting infinitely creative
- Flexible tools for editing MIDI information
- Automatic plug-in delay compensation saves you from frustrations
- Tools to conserve PC processing power and balance CPU processing
- Burn and rip CDs right inside SONAR and save in virtually any audio format
- Easily upload songs to the Internet and build song players for your website
Start to finish - all the tools you need to make and produce music
If you're taking your first step into professional computer-based music creation and production, Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition is designed to swiftly propel your craft. It provides a serious amount of inspiring musical instruments, so you can easily develop everything from electronic grooves to acoustic orchestrations. And if you're recording audio, SONAR 8 Producer Edition gives you an extremely high level of editing tools and plug-in effects, so you can lay out your tracks, polish them, and then publish them - just like the professionals. In short, Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition excels at every step of the music-creation and music-production process. It's an incredibly powerful, comprehensive software suite.
Intuitive environment to work within
The creative work environment is as important as the actual tools - and fortunately, Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition gives you the best of both. Not only do you get a complete artillery of editing tools and time-saving tricks, but it's also all couched within an intuitive environment. Enjoy fast-access to all the essential controls and parameters within SONAR 8 Producer Edition and rapidly create your music.
Includes a tremendous amount of virtual instruments
With Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition, you can explore a diverse landscape of sounds and musical instruments right from the moment you open the box. You get tons of premium virtual instruments, ranging from vintage analog synthesizer leads to drum hits to organic, acoustic sounds. Just use your favorite MIDI keyboard controller to play in phrases expressively and layer one on top of the other to create incredible-sounding backing tracks and inspiration for new songs. The suite includes Dimension Pro 1.2 Cakewalk's award-winning virtual instrument, offering everything from rich acoustic sounds to atmospheric pads with plenty of tweakability. You also get incredible guitar amp and pedal modeling, courtesy of Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3 LE. Or, for modern electronic sounds, you've got Rapture LE, and PSYN II in addition to grooves, drum patterns, and more, thanks to DropZone, Pentagon I, RXP, Roland GrooveSynth, Roland TTS-1, and Session Drummer 2.
More professional plug-ins and audio effects than any version of SONAR
The difference between a good song sketch and a professional track rests in the polishing. You need reverb to add just the right amount of room ambience, maybe a touch of compression to fatten up the kick and bass, EQ to sculpt each sound and the overall mix, and then pro-quality mastering tools to give your mix the punch it needs to stand up next your favorite CDs. Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition puts all of these tools right into your hands, so you're ready to create at the top level. You get a serious amount of audio effects and tools, including the Sonitus:fx Suite that's packed with reverb, equalization, compression, wah, and even more tools. Plus, you get the Lexicon Pantheon Reverb that's based on the legendary Lexicon hardware. And for giving your mix that crucial last "kick," the acclaimed Boost 11 Peak Limiter is included, as well. Other tools include the LP-64 EQ Multiband linear phase mastering compressor/limiter, the TS-64 transient shaper, the TL-64 tube leveler, the VC-64 Vintage Channel with sidechaining capabilities, the Roland V-Vocal with Pitch to MIDI conversion, Perfect Space Convolution Reverb, and more.
Unlimited tracks and track templates, for getting infinitely creative
Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition puts no limits on your creativity, so you can create as complex of orchestrations as your imagination churns out. There are no track count limits or similar restrictions. And to jump-start the creative process, Cakewalk even added a host of project and track templates that instantly load your favorite sounds. Just call one up and fill it up with music.
Flexible tools for editing MIDI information
Using Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition's extensive, customizable Smart MIDI editing tools, you can get inside your MIDI information and quickly tweak it to achieve perfect virtual instrument tracks. A few tools in the extensive MIDI-editing toolbox include Drag-Quantize, for quickly aligning selected notes and events with snap settings, a multilane Piano Roll view, a MIDI magnifier, and a velocity colorizer.
Automatic plug-in delay compensation saves you from frustrations
With Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition, you don't have to worry about "nudging" your audio tracks to make up for latency problems caused by plug-ins, or even by outboard hardware effects. The automatic plug-in delay compensation feature keeps your head in the music, instead of calculating minute delay times every time you decide to enrich your sound with another plug-in.
Tools to conserve PC processing power and balance CPU processing
SONAR 8 Producer Edition is designed to take advantage of the power of today's cutting-edge multi-processor PCs, including eight cores. SONAR 8 intelligently balances its processing load across all the available resources, so you enjoy the best performance possible. And if you want to harness even more horsepower as you concentrate on different parts of your mix, you can freeze tracks, instruments, and effects to conserve processing power - great for pulling together a ton of juice as you lay down another part or print a CPU-hungry virtual instrument track to audio.
Burn and rip CDs right inside SONAR and save in virtually any audio format
Once you're inside the SONAR 8 Producer Edition environment, you can stay there. Rip a CD right into SONAR, to sample your old tracks or save them as a more e-mailable file format. In fact, you can save your SONAR projects in just about any recognized audio format, including Sony Wave-64, AIF, CAF, FLAC, SD2, WAV, QuickTime, MP3, and WMA. You can also export to OMFI and Broadcast WAV, for tweaking your tracks within other DAWs. And when it's finally time to complete your project, SONAR 8 Producer Edition offers integrated CD burning, making it a true one-stop destination for music creation, production, and final publication.
Easily upload songs to the Internet and build song players for your website
The Internet is already an integral part of the music process - not only for promoting your band, songs, studio abilities, and more, but also distributing your music. Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition is there for you after you've completed your mix with helpful tools for taking your audio straight from your computer and publishing it to the 'net. Using Cakewalk Publisher, you can even build a song player for your website to showcase your latest creations.
- Unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI
- Track templates that instantly load your favorite sounds
- Dedicated Step Sequencer
- New Instrument Tracks
- Plug-in direct to access fresh and versatile tones with the included suite of 31 audio effects
- Build audio and MIDI tracks fast using Groove Clips and the redesigned Loop Explorer
- Record at virtually any bit depth/sample rate up to 24-bit/384kHz
- New responsive Transport for on-the-fly recording
- Manipulate the timing and feel of audio, just like MIDI, with AudioSnap
- Track Layers powerful comping and editing tools
- Quickly edit MIDI with state of the art Smart MIDI Tools
- Streamline your workflow and project organization using Track Folders
- Edit multiple tracks at once with group editing
- Freeze audio and instrument tracks for optimal performance
- 64-bit audio engine
- Active Controller Technology
- Console view
- Get sophisticated mixes with flexible routing options, unlimited submixes and sends, and internal sidechaining
- Bus Waveform Preview
- Automatic Delay Compensation
- Multi-core/multi-processor support
- ReWire compatible
- Flexible export options and faster than realtime rendering
- Import/export AIF, Broadcast WAV, FLAC, SD2 (Sound Designer II), QuickTime, and many other audio & video file formats
- Upload music directly from SONAR to the web using Cakewalk Publisher to create online streaming flash players
- Rip and burn CDs right from within SONAR
- Preset patterns for the Step Sequencer offering useful beats to get your productions started
- New and updated ACT mappings for popular control surfaces and MIDI controllers
- New Project and Track Templates to get you set-up instantly
- LP-64 EQ linear phase mastering
- LP-64 Multiband linear phase mastering compressor/limiter
- TS-64 Transient Shaper
- TL-64 Tube Leveler
- VC-64 Vintage Channel with sidechaining capabilities
- Roland V-Vocal 1.5 with Pitch to MIDI conversion
- Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3 LE
- Perfect Space Convolution Reverb
- Lexicon Pantheon Reverb
- Sonitus Surround Compressor
- Dimension Pro 1.2 virtual synthesizer with Classic Keys Expansion Pack
- TruePianos Amber VSTi
- Beatscape looping instrument
- Hollywood Edge Sound FX library for Dimension Pro
- Z3TA+ waveshaping synthesizer
- Surround mixing in over 30 formats
- SurroundBridge technology to use stereo FX in surround
- POW-r dithering
- Rapture LE - modern electronic sounds for today's music
- DropZone - easy-to-use drag and drop sampler with REX support
- Pentagon I - access vintage analog sounds
- PSYN II - full-featured subtractive synthesizer
- RXP - easy-to-use REX player/groove box
- Roland GrooveSynth and TTS-1 with genuine Roland Sounds
- Session Drummer 2 - create drum parts easily with a live feel, includes popular drum patterns to get started
- Sonitus:fx Suite - Reverb, EQ, Delay, Compressor, Wah, and more
- Boost 11 Peak Limiter for maximum punch from your final mix
- Channel Tools - essential stereo enhancement, utilizing sample delay, MS Decoding, and independent left/right panning
- Garritan Pocket Orchestra for Dimension LE provides a complete set of orchestral instrumentation
