Make the Most of Your Home Studio with SONAR Home Studio 4!
Bring the professional power of SONAR to your home PC with SONAR Home Studio! There is no better software for musicians taking the first step into digital recording. The newest member of the SONAR family comes with a comprehensive feature set that turns your computer into a multitrack recording studio, giving you everything you need to take your music from inspiration to finished CD.
Cakewalk SONAR Home Studio 4 at a Glance:- Includes many features of SONAR 4
- Easy to record any instrument
- Make pinpoint edits using a variety of views and tools
- Create backing tracks in seconds!
- Mix and add effects
- Handles audio and MIDI recording with equal ease
- Included instruments and ReWire support
- Great for remixers
- Music notation built in
- Edit video sound tracks
Includes many features of SONAR 4
SONAR Home Studio is built with the same core features as Cakewalk SONAR 4. Its intuitive tools make it easy to record, edit, mix, and arrange professional quality music. SONAR Home Studio 4 includes powerful tools such as built-in instruments and effects, support for DirectX, VST, ReWire, and MFX instruments and effects, support for ACID-format loops; and much more.
Easy to record any instrument
With SONAR Home Studio 4, recording any instrument is easy. Just plug in, check your levels, and hit record. Confidence Recording will draw the wave shape on to your screen as you record so you know you are getting the take. Hear internal effects on input, even while you record. If you need help getting a project started, choose from hundreds of preset sounds that will help ignite your creativity. Once you have recorded your tracks, you can visually arrange, edit, and mix your music with point-and-click ease-all in one view.
Make pinpoint edits using a variety of views and tools
With different views including Arrange, Piano Roll, Drum Editor, and Loop Construction, you can zoom in and make pinpoint edits to your project. Change the tempo and pitch; normalize or reverse the audio; preview, move, extend or cut certain sections; add track envelopes. Use many of the same advanced features found in SONAR including multi-clip edits, loop-rolling, fade drawing, and more. And with non-destructive editing, and unlimited undo/redo, you can always change your mind about an edit at any time.
Create backing tracks in seconds!
SONAR Home Studio 4 lets you create backing tracks in a matter of seconds. Find the perfect loop in the Loop Explorer, then click and drag it to start building your arrangement. You can chop up your beats, add dynamics, and create remixes with just a few clicks of the mouse. The enhanced Loop Construction View allows you to take control of your loops-tweak the pitch, pan, and gain of slices in any ACID-format loop. SONAR Home Studio includes a loop library to get started, and you can create loops out of any recorded audio.
Mix and add effects
Mixing in SONAR Home Studio is easy with new Track Icons - no more guessing which track contains guitar or which track has the vocals. Mute, Solo, Pan, and change the Gain all in one view to achieve the best mix. Add effects to your mix, and A/B them with just a click of a button. Professional metering provides the visual feedback you need for better real-time mixing. Mix in a more traditional studio console view or use your own control surface hardware to get the feel of real knobs and faders.
Handles audio and MIDI recording with equal ease
In SONAR Home Studio 4, everything is laid out in an intuitive interface that lets you quickly record, edit, arrange, and mix your music. No matter what you want to record-guitars, keyboards, vocals, live turntable scratches, CD samples, or any other sound-SONAR Home Studio puts it all together seamlessly.
Included instruments and ReWire support
SONAR Home Studio gives you hundreds of sounds to get started. It includes the Virtual Sound Canvas (modeled after the famous Roland instrument), Dreamstation vintage analog synth, and Sfz SoundFont player. In addition, you can add your favorite DXi or VSTi instruments-available separately. Get more synth sounds by patching Project5, Kinetic, Reason, ReBirth, and other ReWire compatible synths right into SONAR Home Studio's Synth Rack. Or add advanced audio recording, mixing, and editing capabilities to Kinetic or Reason.
Great for remixers
SONAR Home Studio is great for Remixers and DJs who need powerful looping tools. The Loop Explorer allows you to find perfect loop, preview it in the tempo and key of your song, and quickly drag it into your project. Browse through the included Cakewalk Loops sample library, or create your own loops using any MP3, WAV file, or your own recorded tracks.
Music notation
SONAR Home Studio integrates notation tools that allow you to create and print your own musical scores. Record and transcribe performances using any MIDI instrument, or just point and click to edit notes directly on the staff. Print up to 24 staves per page, with chord charts and symbols, lyrics, dynamic markings, and more.
Edit video sound tracks
SONAR Home Studio provides a fast and effective way to create, edit, and dub sound tracks for digital video files. Just import and sync a Windows AVI, or MPEG video to your SONAR Home Studio project. Make and edit soundtracks and sound effects for band videos or home movies.
- Record and play back 64 audio tracks and unlimited MIDI tracks
- Support for multi-channel audio cards
- Record up to 24-bit/96 kHz audio
- Real-time mixing console
- Loop-based song construction tools
- Import WAV, ACID-format WAV, and MP3 files
- Complete library of ACID-format audio loops
- Support for DXi 2.0 (Synth Rack, Multiple outputs) third-party soft synth plug-ins
- Includes Virtual Sound Canvas DXi and Dreamstation DXi soft synths
- Real-time DirectX audio effects: Amp Sim Lite, Reverb, Chorus, Delay, Flange, EQ
- Multi-port Drum Grid Editing
- Support for hundreds of available third-party DirectX audio plug-ins
- ReWire support to integrate Home Studio 2004 with Project5, Reason, and other ReWire synths
- Support for VST instruments and effects with Cakewalk VST Adapter
- Edit and print notation, along with chord symbols, guitar chord grids, lyrics, dynamic markings
- Unlimited edit undo
- 24-bit and 16-bit audio support
- Multitrack Piano Roll view
- Drum editing grid with pattern brush
- Import and synchronize AVI video to music projects
- Non-destructive slip-editing of audio and MIDI clips
- Per-track audio meters
- Support for all Windows compatible audio hardware through ASIO, MME, or WDM
- Pyro Express CD-maker and WAV ripper
