Cakewalk Sonar 7 Studio Edition Digital Audio Software (Windows)

Cakewalk Sonar 7 Studio Edition Digital Audio Software (Windows)

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 you the edge in your 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.

• 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 Dimension LE, and Rapture LE; Roland’s GrooveSynth and TTS-1; and 3 more instruments
• Get searing guitar tones with ReValver MK II SE, amazing ambience with Lexicon Pantheon LE
• Reverb, and more with Sonitus:fx Suite– 29 FX in all
• Sophisticated mixing with flexible bussing, internal sidechaining, and automatic plug-in delay compensation for both internal plug-ins and outboard hardware effects
• Deliver polished final tracks with Boost 11 Peak Limiter 
• Use AudioSnap to non-destructively fix audio timing and make instant tempo changes
• Get total control of your instruments, effects, and mix with Active Controller Technolog
• Assemble a perfect take with intuitive comping and editing tools
• Build backing tracks with ACID™-format loops, MIDI Groove Clips, and Session Drummer™ 2
• 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 Studio Edition gives you the power to record, edit and mix unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI, and includes an ample array of audio effects, virtual instruments, and innovative technologies to maximize your creativity.  These include the Boost 11 peak limiter, Revalver SE MKII guitar amp simulator, Dimension™ LE and Rapture™ LE virtual instruments, Active Controller Technology™, AudioSnap™ non-destructive audio quantize, audio and MIDI looping tools with ACID™-loop support, and much more.  These are complemented by two virtual instruments from Roland®, the Lexicon Pantheon SE Reverb, AudioSnap™ rendering with iZotope Radius, 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 we incorporate 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 and 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 like 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.

New in SONAR 7:

• NEW— Maximize finished tracks with Boost 11 Peak Limiter
• NEW— Internal sidechaining for Sonitus:fx Compressor & Gate, and 3rd party VST plug-ins with side-chaining capability
• NEW— Insert and mix with external hardware effects and instruments in SONAR’s tracks and busses with automatic plug-in delay compensation
• NEW— Get searing guitar tones with ReValver Mk II SE
• NEW— Make music with new instruments including Dimension LE (featuring Garritan Pocket Orchestra), Rapture LE, DropZone
• NEW— Full-featured Step Sequencer, perfect for programming beats or bass lines
• NEW— MIDI Input Quantize with per-track quantize settings and presets
• NEW— Intuitive new Smart MIDI Tools—use one tool for multiple tasks
• NEW— Enhanced MIDI editing with functions for splitting, gluing and muting notes
• NEW— Augmented tools and display options for MIDI Controller data
• NEW— MIDI display features including MIDI Magnifier, MIDI Colorizer and MIDI Meters
• NEW— Rename MIDI ports for easy identification
• NEW— More ACT presets for popular hardware and usability enhancements
• NEW— Innovative Dim Solo keeps tracks in context, by reducing volume of unsoloed tracks by 6, 12 or 18 db instead of muting
• NEW— Optimizations for high bandwidth multi-track recording
• NEW— Record large projects with 2GB+ wave files 
• NEW— New file format import/export options including Sony Wave-64, AIF, CAF, FLAC, Sound Designer II
• NEW— Shortcuts for assigning series of audio inputs, and routing selected tracks/busses to the same input/output/main
• NEW— AudioSnap enhancements for smoother-sounding audio
• NEW— Drag & drop EQ settings across channels in the console view
• NEW— Original SMPTE time stamps now stored with clips with easy revert to original time stamp
• NEW— X-Ray Windows to make windows transparent to access and edit views and plug-ins below.
• NEW— Bit Meter VST plug-in to monitor digital activity of your audio stream.
• NEW— Large Now Time display in track view
• NEW— Field recorder support
• NEW— Import/export Color Schemes:
• NEW— Upload songs and web players directly to Internet with Cakewalk Publisher
• NEW— Rip CDs and burn your mixes directly to CD from SONAR

System Requirements:

• Operating System* Windows XP/Vista (32 and 64-bit), can be run on Mac OS X with Boot Camp
• Processor Speed  Intel® Pentium® 4 1.3 GHz orAMD Athlon™ XP 1500+Or higher (Intel® Pentium® 4 2.8 GHz [EM64T]AMD Athlon™ 64 2800+or higher recommended)
• RAM 256 MB (512 on Vista) 1 GB or higher recommended
• Graphics (resolution, color depth)  1024x768, 16-bit color (1280x960, 24-bit color or higher recommended)
• Hard Disk Space  100 MB program/application (6 gigabytes for entire data)
• Hard Disk Type  EIDE/Ultra DMA (7200 RPM) or SATA
• MIDI Interface** Windows-compatible
• Audio Interface***  Windows-compatible WDM- or ASIO-compatible****
• Media Drive***** DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R, or DVD+/- RW Drive

* SONAR does not officially support Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP x64** Required to connect external MIDI devices***Required for audio playback**** See www.cakewalk.com/PCResource for a complete list of recommended audio devices***** SONAR is presented on DVD media. DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R, or DVD+/- RW Drive required for installation.