A Comprehensive PC Music Creation and Production Environment!
Combine Cakewalk SONAR 8 Studio Edition, your creativity, and a PC, and experience endless possibilities! This music production and music creation powerhouse software suite gives you all the professional tools you need to see inspiration through to radio-ready, final projects. In fact, SONAR 8 Studio Edition is packed with 11 world-class virtual instruments - from the electronic-infused to the most articulate, natural acoustic sounds - as well as 31 pro audio effects, killer beats, and more. Ready to start creating, sequencing, mixing, mastering, and publishing music? It's all inside Cakewalk SONAR 8 Studio Edition.
Cakewalk SONAR 8 Studio Edition at a Glance:- Start to finish - all the tools you need to make and produce music
- Intuitive environment to work within
- 11 world-class virtual instruments - from grand pianos to drums to synths
- Polish and professionalize your tracks with 31 audio effects and tools
- 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 Studio 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 Studio 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 Studio 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 Studio 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 Studio Edition and rapidly create your music.
11 world-class virtual instruments - from grand pianos to drums to synths
With Cakewalk SONAR 8 Studio Edition, you can explore a diverse landscape of sounds and musical instruments right from the moment you open the box. You get 11 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 LE, a special version of Cakewalk's award-winning Dimension. Dimension LE offers everything from rich acoustic sounds to atmospheric pads with plenty of tweakability. 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.
Polish and professionalize your tracks with 31 audio effects and tools
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 Studio Edition puts all of these tools right into your hands, so you're ready to create at the top level. You get 31 audio effects in all, including the Sonitus:fx Suite that's packed with reverb, equalization, compression, wah, and even more tools. Plus, you get the Lexicon Pantheon SE 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.
Unlimited tracks and track templates, for getting infinitely creative
Cakewalk SONAR 8 Studio 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 Studio 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 Studio 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 Studio 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 Studio 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 Studio 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 Studio 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
- 11 total instruments included
- Includes 31 audio FX and 7 MIDI FX
- Dimension LE - a special version of this award-winning instrument that combines real & synthesized sounds
- 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
- Lexicon Pantheon SE Reverb based on legendary Lexicon® hardware
- Garritan Pocket Orchestra for Dimension LE provides a complete set of orchestral instrumentation
