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Powerful Music Production for Your PC!

Cakewalk's SONAR Artist DAW software hooks you up with all the tools you need to create high-quality tracks on your Windows PC computer. With plenty of power under the hood the customizable Skylight user interface onboard SONAR Artist is as perfectly well-suited for professional SONAR users and total novices alike and is now touch-control enabled. A suite of amazing virtual instruments and a full selection of plug-in processors and other creative tools make creating and mixing music a ton of fun. And with cool new tools for sharing your projects with the outside world, you really can take your ideas and turn them into finished tracks all inside Cakewalk SONAR Artist.

Play

Rock out with top-notch virtual instruments and killer guitar tones

One of our favorite things about SONAR at Sweetwater is the sheer amount of content you get. Cakewalk packed SONAR Artist with 11 killer virtual instruments. If you play guitar or bass, then you'll love SONAR's 16 new drag-and-drop amps. These virtual amps go beyond emulating ones that already exist, they allow you to create the amps of your dreams for tone you could never pull from a real-world amp. Combined with an impressive low-latency audio engine, these fun guitar effects are even perfect for recording everything from bluegrass to thrash. On top of this, you also get loop construction tools, a unique step sequencer, and amazing take comping tools.

Record

Flexible tools simplify your recording workflow without limiting your potential

With unlimited audio, MIDI, and instrument tracks at your disposal, SONAR Artist sets the bar when it comes to basic recording capability. But the basics are hardly all this DAW has to offer. For starters, it's built around a phenomenal sounding 64-bit/384kHz audio engine, which keeps your sound as pristine as possible for mixing and editing. It also provides you with a huge collection of useful recording options, including the ability to record multiple takes directly to separate take lanes in the same channel.

Edit

Perform pro-level editing techniques effortlessly with the Skylight interface

One of the things that really sets Cakewalk SONAR Artist apart from other DAW programs is its amazingly simple yet totally customizable Skylight user interface. This flexible interface lets you organize individual modules as you like them (arrangement view, piano roll, mixer, etc.) and then lock them together into a single window. With SONAR Artist's extremely clever Smart Tool, you can move from module to module and always have the functions you need just a mouse click away. You'll have over 50 FX chains at your fingertips — from simple utilities to boutique guitar pedals, you'll never be at a loss for inspiration. And with powerful conveniences like the pattern tool, efficient control bar, FX stacking abilities, expandable sends, and multi-touch control, getting your songs just right is easier than ever.

Mix

Refine your tracks with a host of amazing mixing tools and virtual processors

Cakewalk certainly doesn't skimp when it comes to virtual processors. From the moment you install SONAR Artist, you'll have over 25 amazing plug-in effects and processors — including the Essential Suite — you can use to bolster your sound and smooth out your mix. The mix recall function allows you to save and switch between your mix scenes for easy A/B listening. And since you can also mix for radio, video, podcast, or MP3 and bounce all of them at once, SONAR Artist saves you serious time when it comes to tackling many advanced mixing tasks.

Deliver

Distributing your latest masterpiece is just a few mouse clicks away

With the tracking, editing, and mixing behind you, there's only one thing left to do, and that's to share your work with the rest of the world. Whether you need to simply burn a CD or you want to toss your latest tune up to SoundCloud, save it to the cloud via Gobbler, or export video direct to YouTube, Cakewalk SONAR Artist lets you do it all — without ever leaving the program! That's not all. SONAR Artist also supports DSD (Direct Stream Digital) imports, exports, and conversions to provide you with high-resolution, archive quality audio.

Cakewalk's Command Center keeps you up to date

Cakewalk's engineers work constantly to make your recording experience with SONAR Artist better, faster, and easier, and now you don't have to wait until the next version is released to take advantage. When you activate your SONAR membership you will automatically receive updates to features, content, presets, and more for an entire year via the Cakewalk Command Center. The Command Center is your place for the latest and greatest improvements to SONAR Artist. And even if you don't renew your membership, you lose nothing — everything you've updated in SONAR Artist will still be there.