Cakewalk has released SONAR 7 Producer Edition and SONAR 7 Studio Edition.
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.
Key new features in SONAR 7 Producer Edition
- 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
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.
The following features are exclusive to SONAR 7 Producer Edition:
- NEW— LP-64 EQ™ linear phase mastering EQ
- NEW— LP-64 Multiband™ linear phase mastering compressor/limiter
- NEW— Z3TA+™ waveshaping synthesizer
- NEW— VC-64 Vintage Channel™ with sidechaining capabilities
- NEW— Roland V-Vocal™ 1.5 with Pitch to MIDI conversion
- AudioSnap™ multitrack audio quantize
- Surround mixing in over 30 formats
- SurroundBridge™ technology to use stereo FX in surround
- 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
SONAR 7 Producer Edition has an MSRP of $619 ($499 street) U.S., SONAR 7 Studio Edition (MSRP) is $369 U.S. ($299 street) and both are now shipping.
More information: Cakewalk
