Cakewalk Releases SONAR 7 Producer, Studio Editions

September 26, 2007 - SONAR 7

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SONAR 7

Cakewalk, the world’s leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, announces the feature packed release of SONAR 7 Producer Edition and SONAR 7 Studio Edition, the technology leading digital audio workstations. With SONAR 7 you get 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.

Already feature packed, SONAR 7 Producer Edition tips the scales with integrated Step Sequencer view; Smart MIDI Tools; dozens of MIDI workflow and editing enhancements; Roland® V-Vocal 1.5 editor enhanced with pitch to MIDI conversion; new instruments: Z3TA+ 1.5, Dimension LE with Garritan Pocket Orchestra, Rapture LE, & DropZone providing over 1000 new sounds; LP-64 EQ and LP-64 Multiband linear phase mastering VSTs; Boost 11 Peak Limiter; internal sidechaining for SONAR’s dynamics processors & multi-input capable VSTs; mix with external hardware and instruments with automatic delay compensation; Dim Solo Mode; shortcuts for audio I/O & bus assignments; integrated audio CD ripping & burning; and Cakewalk Publisher 2.0 for uploading and presenting music online.

Now SONAR 7 Producer Edition rounds out and extends its comprehensive offering of powerful creative tools with an open and customizable environment, high-quality instruments and effects, and flexible mixing and delivery options. These new developments include user customization for MIDI with Smart MIDI Tools, the introduction of the most powerful Step Sequencer found in any DAW, true Linear Phase Mastering Plug-ins, internal sidechaining, delay compensation for external hardware through an External Insert plug-in, pitch to MIDI functionality with Roland V-Vocal 1.5, integrated CD burning, and numerous workflow and delivery enhancements throughout the application.

New Features for SONAR 7 Producer Edition:

Integrated Step Sequencer view provides the most innovative step sequencer feature set available in any DAW today
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
More ACT (Active Controller Technology) presets for popular hardware
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 let’s 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, of 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
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
Integrated Audio CD ripping and burning
Cakewalk Publisher 2.0 for uploading and presenting music online

SONAR 7 Studio Edition

Don’t sacrifice features for affordability—SONAR 7 Studio Edition 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 7 Producer Edition, SONAR 7 Studio Edition gives users the edge in their 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 of the industry.

SONAR 7 Studio Edition features all the unmatched music creation tools found in SONAR 7 Producer Edition with the following exceptions: LP-64 Linear Phase Equalizer, LP-64 Multiband Compressor, VC-64 Vintage Channel, Roland V-Vocal VariPhrase technology, Z3TA+, PSYN II subtractive synth, Pentagon I analog synth, RXP groove instrument, Perfect Space Convolution Reverb, surround mixing, Sonitus Surround Compressor, POW-r Dithering, MPEX-3 Time Stretching. In addition, AudioSnap in SONAR 7 Studio Edition is limited to one track at a time processing.

For more information, visit their web site at www.cakewalk.com.

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