SONAR 7
Producer Edition

$499.00
 Windows
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by Cakewalk

SONAR has been the definitive choice for audio production since its introduction in 2001. As the 1st recording software to combine MIDI and audio, ACID-style looping, and virtual instruments, SONAR Producer 6 has been designed to take you from inspiration to masterpiece faster than ever before. At every step of your production—from composing with virtual instruments, to recording, mixing, and beyond—SONAR gives you the professional tools and inspiring canvas that adapt to your unique style of music creation. 

• Unmatched ease-of-use, efficiency, customization, and flexibility to speed your ideas to completion —faster than ever before. 

• The precision and power of a world class studio environment that delivers master-quality productions.

• The stability of a workstation designed and optimized exclusively for the Windows platform

  


 SONAR 7
Producer Edition
offers an amazing value with exclusive tools, instruments, and effects that makes it the best value and most complete recording software available for recording musicians today.

Check out the value of these included recording tools you receive FREE with the purchase of SONAR 6 Producer Edition:

• Radius time/pitch stretching = $400
  * Radius technology is available separately in $400 plug-ins from other manufacturers.
• VC-64 Vintage Channel = $200+
  * VC-64, developed by Kjaerhus Audio, is comparable with other channel strip plug-ins valued at $199 or more.
  
• Roland V-Vocal = $200
  * V-Vocal provides powerful vocal editing tools integrated right into SONAR. You could expect to spend $200 or more on similar functionality from a 3rd party plug-in.
  
• Perfect Space = $100+
  * Powered by Voxengo convolution technology, you could easily spend $100 or more, on a reverb and collection of impulse responses of this quality.
  
• Session Drummer 2 = $80
  * Session Drummer 2 is more than just a virtual instrument, it includes real multi-sampled drum kits paired with professionally recorded drum patterns from Smart Loops, an industry leader in rhythm content.

Cakewalk is the industry leader in empowering musicians through the latest computer technologies. Take advantage of the full power of your PC and lift your productions to new heights with SONAR 6 Producer.

Change the way you work with instruments forever with SONAR 6’s innovative new Active Controller Technology™ (ACT). Tighten up your entire band with the revolutionary new AudioSnap™ feature set. And sound better than ever with the new VC-64 Vintage Channel™ and SONAR’s industry-leading 64-bit double precision mix engine. Fast-forward your music production today with the unmatched music creation tools and sonic clarity of SONAR 6 Producer Edition.
 

Sonar  was the first native 64-bit digital audio workstation software on the market. Sonar  ships as both a 32-bit and 64-bit application, and the 64-bit double precision floating point engine is accessible in both 32-bit or 64-bit applications. Sonar sees a 20-30% performance gain when installed in in a 64-bit PC using Intel EM64T and AMD64 processor and Windows XP x64 Edition. In addition, Intel EM64T and AMD64 systems can access up to 128GB of RAM that opens up new worlds when using samplers and audio loops. 

Get higher-quality mixes with Sonar’s cutting edge 64-bit double precision floating point engine with full delay compensation 
Keep pristine audio quality with support for 32-bit float files and up to 500 kHz sampling rates. 

Sonar Producer Edition introduces Roland® V-Vocal™ to the world! Accomplish powerful vocal edits including pitch correction, phrasing adjustments, harmonization, and much more with Roland® V-Vocal™ . This new vocal processor features state-of-the-art VariPhrase technology—a producer's dream for working with vocals! Use this powerful tool to create perfect vocal tracks, accomplishing edits you never imagined possible.

• Based on VariPhrase technology—a unique technology developed at Roland that allows you to control the tempo and pitch of audio phrases in real time with virtually no sound quality degradation
• Powerful vocal processing: automatic pitch correction, vibrato, and more
• Adjust the phrasing and dynamics of your vocals or rephrase an entire audio region
• Easily add harmonies or choirs to your projects 
  

Flexible mixing with 30+ surround formats, effects, on-the-fly bussing, vector envelopes, pan laws, configurable meter ballistics, more.

Configure Sonar the way you like with custom layouts, color schemes, even use keystrokes from other audio applications. 

Prosoniq MPEX time scaling—a superior time scaling algorithm that is great for matching audio to video or for loop/sample authoring.

Amazing Reverbs - Sonar Producer Edition features some of the finest reverbs on the market today including new Perfect Space™ Convolution Reverb, Lexicon® Pantheon™ Stereo and Surround Reverbs. Create virtually any acoustic space you desire!

• Perfect Space™ Convolution Reverb
  • Low latency, 64-bit convolution processing for the sweetest sounding reverbs 
  • Includes 250 impulse responses sampled from professional hardware reverbs and real spaces 
  • Reproduces actual room ambience with perfect accuracy 
  Includes non-destructive impulse editing, Linear phase EQ, and SSE/SSE2 and 3DNOW optimizations
  
• Lexicon® Pantheon™ Reverbs
  • World-class, pristine sounds of Lexicon reverbs in both stereo and multi-channel environments up to 5.1 
  • Features numerous factory presets and full editing capabilities for creating custom presets 
  • Full control over many different parameters including pre-delay, room size, mix, spread, roll off, and more
  

Sonitus Surround Compressor
Supporting stereo as well as surround-sound techniques, this compressor adds that professional touch to all your recordings

POW-r Dithering
POW-r Dithering provides the highest-quality, ultra-transparent digital-audio bit reduction; reducing 20, 24, and 32 bit audio to CD 
standard 16-bit format, while retaining perceived dynamic efficiency with very low noise.

SurroundBridge™
A primary barrier to making the leap to the 64-bit environment has been the lack of compatible plug-ins. Sonar’s BitBridge™ sweeps aside any resistance by enabling the use of 32-bit VST effects and instruments in Sonar’s 64-bit environment. BitBridge technology extends the viability and use of your favorite VST plug-ins; ensures future compatibility of freeware, even for the most obscure, independently developed shareware plug-ins.

Additional Features in Sonar Producer...

• Active Controller Technology (ACT): dynamically re-maps effect, mix and instrument parameters to hardware controllers
• AudioSnap™ Multitrack Audio Quantize
• AudioSnap suite of tools includes: 
  Non-destructive audio quantize 
  Lock multiple tracks into the same groove 
  Apply seamless tempo changes to audio 
  Convert audio beats to MIDI 
  Slip-stretch clips to a new time or length 
  High-quality time stretching algorithms including iZotope Radius™, Percussion Mode, more
• VC-64 Vintage Channel™—warm sound, dual EQ and compressor stages, analog component modeling, presets by professionals
• Session Drummer™ 2 instrument with professional multi-sampled drum kits, hundreds of live-recorded, vital patterns
• New Synth Rack makes managing, controlling, and automating your instruments simple
• Console view redesigned for ergonomic mixing
• Modular Transport provides easy playback control and vital visual feedback
• Analyst spectrum analyzer
• Clip editing enhancements including lock to time, clip data lock with options for specific atributes (position, duration, both) 
• Work seamlessly with VST plug-ins—VST support is now integrated into SONAR 6 and no longer requires an external VST to DX adapter
• Automation enhancements: read/write controls for tracks and plug-ins, enable automation during playback and record, visual automation cues, more
• Fast Zoom enables fast, precise edits without losing your place
• Mouse wheel support for parameter control and zoom
• Crash Recovery safeguards your projects against faulty plug-ins and other sources of crashes
• Automatic file versioning: back up projects with time/date stamps for easy access to old versions
• Customizable user interface: put favorite features right at your fingertips
• User-customizable plug-in menus for easy organization and grouping
• Friendly driver naming (user-customizable audio hardware port names)
• Custom color schemes with saturation, hue, and brightness controls and color categories for easy customization

Exclusive Features for SONAR 6 Producer Edition:

• AudioSnap™ Multitrack Audio Quantize

• VC-64 Vintage Channel™—warm sound, dual EQ and compressor stages, analog component modeling, presets by professionals

• Session Drummer™ 2 instrument with professional multi-sampled drum kits, hundreds of usable drum patterns

• Roland® V-Vocal™ VariPhrase Processor 

• Surround mixing in over 30 formats

• SurroundBridge™ technology for using stereo VST effects in SONAR’s surround environment 

• Sonitus Surround Compressor

• POW-r dithering

• PSYN II™ Subtractive Synthesizer

• Pentagon™ I Analog Modeling Synth

• RXP™ groove instrument with REX file support

• Perfect Space™ Convolution Reverb

• Lexicon® Pantheon™ Reverb 

• Record and edit unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI.

• Get the perfect take with the best comping, editing, and take management tools available.

• Record live through professional effects: VC-64 Vintage Channel, Perfect Space™ Convolution Reverb, Lexicon Pantheon™ Reverb, Sonitus:fx Suite, and more—31 audio and 8 MIDI effects in all.

• Use AudioSnap to non-destructively fix audio timing, make instant tempo changes to an entire project, lock multiple tracks into the same groove—even quantize multiple tracks in relation to each other. All with unmatched audio fidelity.

• Perfect your vocals with Roland® V-Vocal ™ Editor, providing pitch correction, phrasing, dynamics, and vibrato.

• Make music with 9 amazing instruments: Session Drummer™ 2; two synths with genuine Roland sounds; analog and subtractive synths; REX, SFZ, and groove samplers. 

• Use Active Controller Technology (ACT) to get total control of virtual instruments, effects, and mixing from your MIDI controllers and control surfaces.

• Control and automate your virtual instruments with the enhanced Synth Rack. Group controls from multiple instruments together for ultimate tweakability.

• Freeze tracks, instruments, and effects to conserve processing power.

• Create backing tracks fast with MIDI groove clips, ACID™-format loops, and RXP™ REX player.

• Expand your sound with integrated support for VST, DirectX, and ReWire instruments and effects.

• Score to video with a thumbnail track and output to 1394 FireWire devices. 

Flexible Samplers and SoftSynths

Sonar  includes several versatile samplers and softsynths that allow you to work with many different sample formats including REX™, SFZ and ACID™ loop files...

• RXP™ REX Player Groove Box
  • Tempo-syncing drum machine and groove box that plays REX and SFZ loops and single hits 
  • Drag MIDI patterns into SONAR for editing and rearranging 
  • Built-in multimode filter with parameter controls including attack, decay, cutoff and more 
  • Includes almost 300 MB of REX file content
  
• SFZ SoundFont Sampler
  • Endless sample-arranging capabilities with outstanding sound quality and built-in effects 
  • Loads and plays standard wave files (.wav), Ogg-Vorbis compressed files (.ogg), and SFZ files 
  • Adjustable CPU/quality settings to optimize it for use in your hardware 
  • Fully multi-timbral operation and several loading modes (including direct-from-disk streaming for SoundFonts)
  
• Cyclone™ Groove Sampler
  • Perform and record loop-based compositions in real-time using any MIDI device, MIDI tracks, a computer keyboard, or mouse 
  • Assign ACID™-format WAV files and Groove Clips to Cyclone’s 16 pads that match the tempo and pitch of your project—ships with 400 MBs of ACID™ loops 
  • Rearrange, combine, slice, tweak, and customize samples to create new grooves with control over gain, pitch, and pan of individual loop slices 
  • Full control over looping points—great for creating polyrhythmic textures and work with loops in odd time signatures

Huge Analog Synths
These synths feature critically-acclaimed rgc:audio technology, with the pristine, high-quality sound that musicians and sound designers look for in their instruments...

• PSYN™ II Subtractive Synth
  • Get classic analog sounds and evocative new sounds through full-featured subtractive synthesis 
  Includes two unique filters, four multi-wave oscillators, cross-modulation for Ring Modulation and FM synthesis 
  Five 6-stage Envelope Generators, three assignable LFOs, 64-note polyphony with unison, true mono and portamento 
  Perfect for rap, hip-hop and dance musicians who need warm and edgy bass and lead sounds
   
• Pentagon™ I Vintage Analog Synth
  Get the warm, classic sound of the vintage analog synthesizers, combined with the fidelity and precision of virtual instruments 
  • Features 4 Oscillators with 13 Alias Free Waveforms including saws, squares, pulses, harmonics, and sines plus a Noise Generator per oscillator 
  • Packed with effects including the Format Filter which makes Pentagon "speak" vowels, 6 mode modulation, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Delay, EQ, and more 
  • Includes unique Voice Modulator expands your creativity through imaginative sounds

Authentic Roland® SoftSynth Instruments
Featuring industry-standard samples from the Roland® library, Roland® GrooveSynth™ and TTS-1 GM2 synth offer brilliant sounds that are perfect for all genres of music. Whether you are looking for searing leads, booming drums, or classic instruments like pianos, these instruments deliver with the quality you have come to expect from the Roland® name!

• Roland® GrooveSynth
  • Features 100%-genuine Roland® sounds from their genre-defining groove boxes and synthesizers 
  • Access drum sounds from the legendary 808 and 909 kits 
  • Tweak and fine-tune different parameters including Vibrato, Portamento, Modulation Depth, Bend, Tuning, and more 
  Includes presets for pianos, organs, drums, brass, strings, bass, and much more
   
• Roland TTS-1 GM 2 Synth
  A high quality, multitimbral, multi-out GM2 software synthesizer with a Roland® synth engine to generate amazing, expressive sounds!
  • 256 instrument sounds and 9 drum sets, with the ability to create custom presets 
  • 128-voice polyphony and up to 16 part multi-instrument playback 
  • Includes high quality reverb, chorus, delay, and EQ 
  

SONAR hosts an entire audio loop construction toolkit for incorporating loops into your project quickly. Use SONAR to create and edit loop-based projects, and record additional audio and MIDI tracks for rich, layered sound.

• Make tempo and pitch changes to audio in real-time.
• Automatic beat matching.
• Flexible time stretching/pitch shifting.
• Click and drag to lay down loops when and where you want them.
• Quickly find, organize, and audition loops using the Explorer window.
• Preview loops in real-time from the Loop Explorer view. ACID compatible loops will playback at project tempo.
• Combine an infinite number of different loops on the same track.
• Edit individual beats of loops to customize your groove.
• Import hundreds of included Power FX loops (over 300 MB), or create your own.
• Reads ACID™-compatible audio loop libraries and Window .WAV loop libraries.

• SONAR Studio Edition - software alone

• SONAR Producer Edition - software alone
(you are on the SONAR Producer Edition page right now)

• SONAR Power Studio 250 - SONAR Studio Edition software bundled with a USB Audio/MIDI hardware interface.
All-In-One solution for USB!

• SONAR Power Studio 660 - SONAR Studio Edition software bundled with a FireWire Audio/MIDI hardware interface.
All-In-One solution for FireWire!

(Note: the bundled versions of SONAR Power Studio
do include the Roland V-Vocal vocal processor)

• Operating System: Windows XP or Windows XPx64*
  (* Windows XPx64 is required to run the native 64-bit version of SONAR...it is not required to run SONAR in the standard 32-bit version of Windows XP)
  NOTE: SONAR includes both the 32-bit and 64-bit applications for compatibility with all Windows XP versions. 
• Processor: Intel Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz or faster [EM64T], or AMD Athlon 64, 2800 or faster
• RAM: 1 GB RAM or more
• 100 MB for full program installation
• Multiple GBs of hard drive storage space
• Hard Drives: EIDI/Ultra DMA ( 7200 RPM or faster) or SCSI 
• 1280 X 960, 24-bit color or higher
• DVD-ROM drive (required to install SONAR Producer Edition)
• MIDI Interface (to connect to external MIDI devices)
• Audio Interface or soundcard (required for audio recording and playback)

Note: 
SONAR does NOT support Windows 95, 98, ME, NT or 2000