SONAR 7 - Incredible 64-bit Sound and Processing Power!
SONAR 7 takes the popular Cakewalk DAW program to new heights, adding a ton of new features to accelerate the music-making process. Cakewalk graciously included new tools in SONAR 7 to further aid your musical aspirations, including new plug-ins, comping tools to assemble the perfect take, virtual instruments, and the necessary tools to add the finishing touches to your mixes including the Boost 11 peak limiter and Lexicon Pantheon SE Reverb. Add in the fact that it's Vista compatible and the only DAW taking advantage of 64-bit end-to-end processing, and SONAR 7's a real winner!
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SONAR 7 Studio Edition at a Glance:- Unlimited Potential
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Unlimited Potential
SONAR 7 Studio Edition gives you the power to record, edit and mix unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI, and includes an ample array of audio effects, virtual instruments, and innovative technologies to maximize your creativity. These include the Boost 11 peak limiter, Revalver SE MKII guitar amp simulator, Dimension LE and Rapture LE virtual instruments, Active Controller Technology AudioSnap non-destructive audio quantize, audio and MIDI looping tools with ACID-loop support, and much more. These are complemented by two virtual instruments from Roland, the Lexicon Pantheon SE Reverb, AudioSnap rendering with iZotope Radius, thousands of instrument sounds, over a gigabyte of sample content, and much more.
Powered by the Latest Technology
SONAR takes full advantage of the power of your machine; it's a powerhouse on today's multi-core PCs and Intel-based Macs (using Bootcamp). You can feel confident that you'll never be left behind, no matter how technology changes. Cakewalk has been first to innovate on Windows Vista, x64 processing, multi-core and multi-processor support, and 64-bit double precision audio quality, and we incorporate it seamlessly so all you need to think about is making music.
Make it Your Own
SONAR gives you the freedom to configure your studio to meet your unique needs. It's compatible with your choice of WDM or ASIO hardware from the stock sound card that ships with your PC all the way up to an SSL AWS 900+ console. If you're switching to SONAR you can load presets of keystrokes from your favorite applications and you can make your own. It features the best support for control surfaces and MIDI controllers, and you can expand your creative abilities with DSP cards, and third party VST, DirectX, and ReWire effects and instruments. Plus you can customize menus, toolbars, layouts, channel presets, track icons, color schemes, and more just the way you like it.
- Record and edit unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI.
- Get the perfect take with the best comping, editing, and take management tools available.
- Maximize finished tracks with Boost 11 Peak Limiter
- Internal sidechaining for Sonitus:fx Compressor & Gate, and 3rd party VST plug-ins with side-chaining capability
- Insert and mix with external hardware effects and instruments in SONAR's tracks and busses with automatic plug-in delay compensation
- Make music with new instruments including Dimension LE (featuring Garritan Pocket Orchestra), Rapture LE, DropZone
- Full-featured Step Sequencer, perfect for programming beats or bass lines
- MIDI Input Quantize with per-track quantize settings and presets
- Intuitive new Smart MIDI Tools - use one tool for multiple tasks
- Enhanced MIDI editing with functions for splitting, gluing and muting notes
- Augmented tools and display options for MIDI Controller data
- MIDI display features including MIDI Magnifier, MIDI Colorizer and MIDI Meters
- Rename MIDI ports for easy identification
- More ACT presets for popular hardware and usability enhancements
- Innovative Dim Solo keeps tracks in context, by reducing volume of unsoloed tracks by 6, 12 or 18 db instead of muting
- Optimizations for high bandwidth multi-track recording
- Record large projects with 2GB+ wave files
- New file format import/export options including Sony Wave-64, AIF, CAF, FLAC, Sound Designer II
- Shortcuts for assigning series of audio inputs, and routing selected tracks/busses to the same input/output/main
- AudioSnap enhancements for smoother-sounding audio
- Drag & drop EQ settings across channels in the console view
- Original SMPTE time stamps now stored with clips with easy revert to original time stamp
- X-Ray Windows to make windows transparent to access and edit views and plug-ins below.
- Bit Meter VST plug-in to monitor digital activity of your audio stream.
- Large Now Time display in track view
- Field recorder support
- Import/export Color Schemes:
- Upload songs and web players directly to Internet with Cakewalk Publisher
- Rip CDs and burn your mixes directly to CD from SONAR