SONAR 7 PRODUCER EDITON: SONAR 7 Producer Editon
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 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.
- 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)
- Backed by the best customer service in the industry, regular updates, and affordable upgrades
Unlimited potential
SONAR 7 Producer Edition places no limits on your track count, bus routing, effect or instrument inserts, and includes 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.
Powered by the latest technology
SONAR 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.
Make it your own
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.
Backed by unparalleled support
SONAR is developed by musicians who listen, understand, and respond to the discerning needs of our customers, including Grammy and Emmy winning producers, engineers, and composers. When you choose SONAR, you are getting a complete package that includes regular updates, affordably priced upgrades, an unbeatable user forum, and the backing of world class customer service and support that has made Cakewalk the musician's favorite for over 20 years.
- Integrated Step Sequencer view—the most innovative step sequencer feature set available in any DAW
- Smart MIDI Tools—intuitively use one tool for multiple editing tasks; completely customizable
- Real-time Drag-Quantize allows selected notes and events to be quickly aligned with snap settings
- Multilane controller editing in Piano Roll view; controller data can be moved/copied across lanes; multiple controls can be viewed/edited per lane to economize screen real estate
- MIDI display features including MIDI Magnifier, MIDI Meters, and Velocity Colorizer
- Enhanced MIDI editing with functions for splitting, gluing, and muting notes
- New ACT (Active Controller Technology) presets for Akai MPK49, Korg padKONTROL, and Line6 TonePort KB37
- New instruments: Z3TA+ 1.5 waveshaping synthesizer, Dimension LE (featuring Garritan Pocket Orchestra), Rapture LE, and DropZone Sample player/synth; Over 1000 instruments sounds
- Roland V-Vocal 1.5, now with Pitch to MIDI conversion
- LP-64 Multiband linear phase mastering compressor/limiter with AutoQ functionality
- LP-64 EQ linear phase mastering EQ with 20-point control curve
- Internal sidechaining for Sonitus:fx Compressor, Sonitus:fx Gate, VC-64 Vintage Channel, and 3rd party VST plug-ins with sidechain (multi-input) capability
- External Insert Plug-in lets you insert and mix with external hardware effects and instruments with automatic delay compensation
- Boost 11 Peak Limiter
- Dim Solo keeps tracks in context by reducing volume of unsoloed tracks by 6, 12, or 18 dB instead of muting
- Drag & drop EQ settings across channels in the console view
- Shortcuts for assigning a series of audio inputs, and routing selected tracks/busses to the same input/output/main
- Rename Synths in Synth Rack
- Original SMPTE time stamps now stored with clips with easy revert to original time stamp
- Right-click at cursor to Import audio/MIDI data
- Wave-64 support provides capabilities to record large scale (2 GB+) projects
- High bandwidth multi-track recording optimizations
- New file format import/export options including Sony Wave-64, AIF, CAF, FLAC, Sound Designer II
- File Recovery mode
- Integrated Audio CD ripping and burning
- Cakewalk Publisher 2.0 for uploading and presenting music online
