Cakewalk Sonar 7 Producer Upgrade

Sonar 7 Producer Upgrade description:

This is an upgrade for Sonar Users with Studio 6 and Sonar 5 Studio, Producer, and Power Studio.

There are many upgrades available for existing Sonar users and a competitive upgrade for Cubase, Logic and Pro Tools users (see alternative prodcts).

Take a fresh look at your evolving music creation and production needs, and turn to SONAR 7 Producer Edition, the technology leading digital audio workstation.

SONAR 7 Producer Edition offers a remarkable experience that excels at every step of your production—from its inspiring, open and customizable environment, to intuitive music creation and editing tools, to polished mixing, editing and delivery—with the recognized best audio quality in the industry. SONAR 7 Producer Edition places no limits on your track count, bus routing, effect or instrument inserts.

Sonar 7 comes with an ample array of audio effects, virtual instruments, and innovative technologies to power your productions. These include the precision LP-64 EQ & LP-64 Multiband linear phase mastering plug-ins, Z3TA+ Waveshaping Synthesizer, Dimension LE and Rapture LE, Active Controller Technology, AudioSnap, and much more. These are complemented by two Roland virtual instruments and the V-Vocal processor, the Lexicon Pantheon Reverb, Perfect Space Convolution Reverb powered by Voxengo, VC-64 Vintage Channel powered by Kjaerhus Audio, AudioSnap rendering with iZotope Radius, POW-r dithering, thousands of instrument sounds, over a gigabyte of sample content, and much more.

SONAR 7 Producer Edition 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 SONAR incorporates it seamlessly so all you need to think about is making music.

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 or 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 want it.

Smart MIDI Tools revolutionizes SONAR’s MIDI editing workflow by providing users with an innovative and powerful user customization feature. Users can configure and use up to three flexible MIDI tools sets to work best for their editing style. With up to 20 different mouse actions that can be performed including slip-edits and transposition. Out of the box SONAR provides one smart MIDI tool that you can use to draw, select, erase and edit notes and controllers.

SONAR 7 Producer Edition main features include:

• Developed for musicians by musicians
• Record, edit, and mix unlimited tracks with the best audio quality in the industry—64-bit end to end
• Create music with Cakewalk’s Z3TA+, Dimension LE, and Rapture LE; Roland’s GrooveSynth and TTS-1; and 8 more instruments
• Get amazing ambience with Perfect Space Convolution Reverb, and lift, punch and warmth with VC-64 Vintage Channel – 34 FX in all
• Deliver polished final tracks with Boost 11 Peak Limiter, and LP-64 EQ & LP-64 Multiband linear phase mastering plug-ins
• Sophisticated mixing with flexible bussing, internal sidechaining, and automatic plug-in delay compensation for both internal plug-ins and outboard hardware effects
• Use AudioSnap to non-destructively fix audio timing, make instant tempo changes, and lock tracks into the same groove
• Fix pitch, phrasing, and dynamics of vocals and create harmonies with Roland V-Vocal 1.5—now with pitch to MIDI conversion
• Get total control of your instruments, effects, and mix with Active Controller Technology
• Assemble a perfect take with intuitive comping and editing tools
• Build backing tracks with ACID-format loops, MIDI Groove Clips, Session Drummer 2, and RXP REX groovebox
• Works with any Windows-compatible ASIO or WDM audio hardware, multiple control surfaces, DSP cards, multicore and multiprocessor PCs (8 cores and beyond), and DirectX, VST, and ReWire plug-ins
• Compatible with Windows XP & Vista (both 32- & 64-Bit), run SONAR on 32-bit or 64-bit PCs or an Intel-based Mac (requires Bootcamp)