Cakewalk SONAR 8 Studio Edition Recording, Sequencing DAW Software

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SONAR 8 The Leading Choice in Digital Audio Workstations

SONAR 8 Studio offers the best creative tools, and the most power of any digital audio workstation in its price range. Built upon the same core feature set as SONAR 8 Producer, SONAR 8 Studio gives you the edge in your productions—from recording audio and MIDI, composing with virtual instruments, remixing with loops, mixing with professional effects, to delivery of a polished final track—with the recognized best audio quality in the industry.

Create: SONAR 8 is the only DAW that offers one-of-a-kind music creation tools that actually help in the songwriting process. Whether you are searching for new ideas or looking to add musical parts to existing songs, SONAR 8 can help you break through those creative blocks. SONAR 8 Studio has no shortage of instruments included!

• Loop Explorer 2.0 - lets you browse and preview audio and MIDI groove clips and patterns. Quickly build backing tracks for your song and preview MIDI with the virtual instrument of your choice.
• Integrated Step Sequencer - the easiest way to create beats, grooves, and lines for all your instruments. Use your mouse or the included drum patterns to get a project started or to add new parts.

Record: SONAR 8 provides the most comprehensive recording features of any DAW on the market today. It's designed to meet the needs of even the most demanding professional—whether recording a solo performance, a band, or even an orchestra.

• Recording without limits — unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI, unlimited simultaneous inputs, loop recording, and the ability to record for hours without stopping means you'll be able to capture all your ideas, no matter how big.
• Stay inspired - new Dynamic Transport offering true rewind, fast forward, and pause; improved jog, shuttle, and scrub; audition and anytime recording for on the fly arming/unarming of tracks.
• Track Templates - make it easy to get your project started, SONAR includes a variety of templates for audio, virtual instrument tracks, and even entire projects. Save your own templates any recall them instantly any time you need that sound.
• Pure power - SONAR pioneered support for multicore and multiprocessor computers, Windows Vista, and x64 processing, now in version 8 we've optimized for high track count/low latency performance and a more responsive user experience.

Edit: SONAR 8 offers precision editing tools you won't find in any other DAW. Whether you're editing audio or MIDI, it's easy to make pinpoint edits and fix issues you didn't think were possible.

• AudioSnap - allows you to non-destructively fix audio timing, make instant tempo changes to an entire project—even quantize audio like you would MIDI.
• Comping - with SONAR it's a breeze! Powerful tools that take the headache out of getting the perfect take. Easily select the best performance from multiple takes and piece it together to sound like one flawless track.
• Smart MIDI Tools - SONAR 8 revolutionizes MIDI editing by providing you with a powerful and customizable workflow innovation. Three tools can each be configured to perform multiple operations, saving you valuable time.

Control: SONAR 8 gives you deep control over virtual instruments, mixing, and more with innovative breakthroughs like Active Controller Technology

• Active Controller Technology - get total control of virtual instruments, effects, and mixing from your MIDI controllers and control surfaces. Now includes even more ACT mappings.
• Control Surfaces - SONAR 8 supports popular control surfaces including those from Edirol, Mackie, Euphonix, and Frontier Design. Enjoy the best control surface support in the industry.
• MIDI Controllers - easily add popular MIDI controllers including the Edirol PCR series for serious control of your virtual instruments. Even use ACT to mix your project via a MIDI controller.
• Synth Rack - SONAR 8 includes a Synth Rack for easy access to all the virtual instruments in your project. Easily manage all the instruments in your project through one simple view.

Mix: SONAR 8 offers the perfect mixing environment for any professional engineer. SONAR's industry-first, end-to-end, 64-bit double precision floating point mix engine allows you to mix with sonic clarity using a suite of versatile effects, powerful mixing tools, and endless routing possibilities.

• Configurable Console - control volume, EQ, sends, pan, and much more just like a hardware mixer. You can also easily integrate most popular Control Surfaces or MIDI controllers.
• Channel Tools - provides easy and powerful zero-latency channel processing for adjusting L/R channel placement, gain, pan/width, and phase; and more.
• External hardware support - allows you to use hardware gear right in SONAR. Tracks stay tight with automatic plug-in delay compensation for external and internal plug-ins. Perfect for outboard gear, stomp boxes, and more.
• 64-bit audio mix engine means you are mixing with the best audio quality in the industry today. Best of all, you can take advantage of this audio engine on both 32-bit and 64-bit PCs.

Master: SONAR 8 allows you to deliver the final polish to your tracks with high-end effects that were designed specifically for the task of mastering.

• Boost 11 - a peak limiter that gives your final mix maximum volume and punch. With Boost 11's simple interface, you'll have your songs, radio- and duplication-ready in no time at all.
• 64-bit Mastering - a reality in SONAR with end-to-end 64-bit audio from native 64-bit audio files, tracks, busses, mastering effect inserts, to file export, your audio always retains its sonic integrity.

Collaborate & Deliver: SONAR 8 offers various options for collaborating with other studios as well as delivering to virtually any format including CD, video, surround, and even the web.

• Flexible Import/Export - SONAR has you covered: AIF, Broadcast WAV, FLAC, SD2 (Sound Designer II), QuickTime video, and many other audio & video file formats.
• Collaborate - with studios and musicians using DAWs like Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, and more—regardless if they are using a PC or Mac. Simply export your project as an OMF or Broadcast WAV files.
• Share your music - finish a project and immediately burn CDs or upload your music to the web. SONAR includes integrated CD ripping and burning, and Cakewalk Publisher to create streaming flash players to post on the Internet.

Included Instruments: SONAR 8 Producer includes the best collection of included virtual instruments found in any DAW. Whether you're looking for acoustic or electric instrument sounds, emulations of classic gear, modern synthesized tones, drums, or a groovebox, you need to look no further than SONAR 8. You may be surprised to find that some of these included plug-ins would cost hundreds of dollars if purchased separately.

• Rapture LE - LE version based on the award-winning Rapture wavetable synthesizer; Searing synthesized sounds, leads, basses, pads, sequences, and more; Nearly 200 patch presets, expandable
• Session Drummer 2 - Drum and Percussion Sequencer; Programming multi-layered, realistic drum parts either a la carte or using included patterns; 4 kits with over 55 drum presets in varying styles - Rock, Swing, Shuffle, Reggae, more
• Cyclone - 16-pad groove sampler; Perfect for drums and other loop-based music; Load, edit, and trigger your own Groove Clips and ACID®-format loops
• Roland TTS-1 - 16 channel multi-timbral GM2 instrument; Keys, horns, strings, guitars, drums, more; 256 patch presets, 9 drum kits
• Pentagon I - Vintage analog sounds; Sound design, all the controls you need to replicate virtually any analog synth; 6 banks, with 550+ patches
• PSYN II - Subtractive synthesizer; Bass, leads, pads, more; 8 banks with 550+ patches
• RXP - REX loops/sample player; Programming and sampling drums and other pattern/groove based content; Over 250 MB of REX loops included
• SFZ - SFZ SoundFont sampler; High Quality band limiting sample-playback engine for SF2 files; 256 voices of polyphony, unlimited layers per voice
• Roland GrooveSynth - Groove synthesizer; Genuine Roland® synths and beat boxes including the legendary 808 and 909 sounds;30 different instrument categories
• DropZone - Drag and Drop Sampler, REX editor; Bass, piano, pads, drums, vocals, REX-format loops, and more; Nearly 300 MB of programs, REX files, and multisamples

Inlcuded Effects: SONAR 8 Producer provides an extensive array of audio effects. We pride ourselves on giving our customers serious processors and sound sculpting tools that you will really use, rather than padding the plug-in count with useless effects. In many cases you'll find more than one choice for a desired effect, giving you options when mixing or designing a sound

• Amp, Tape & Tube Simulation - Amp Sim; Tape Sim
• Dynamics Processing -
  • Sonitus:Compressor (sidechaining)
  • Sonitus:Gate (sidechaining)
  • Sonitus:Multiband
  • DSP-FX Compressor
• Channel Strips, Stereo & Panning - Channel Tools L/R—sample delay and Panwidth control, MS Decoding; Sonitus:Surround
• Delays & ModulationSonitus:Delay
• Sonitus:Modulator
• Sonitus:Phase
• DSP-FX Delay
• DSP-FX Flanger