SONAR 7 Producer Academic Single Edition

Features

• LP-64 EQ linear phase mastering EQ
• LP-64 Multiband linear phase mastering compressor/limiter
• Z3TA+ waveshaping synthesizer
• VC-64 Vintage Channel with sidechaining capabilities
• 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

• 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, 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
• 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, and Sound Designer II
• Integrated audio CD ripping and burning
• Cakewalk Publisher 2.0 for uploading and presenting music online

• Improvising, producing, exploring and developing musical ideas
• Listening, analyzing, and comparing music with discrimination
• Adapting, refining, and improving work
• Expressive use of musical elements, devices, tonalities, and structures
• Exploring ways in which an arrangement can be created
• Devising an accompaniment to a given theme
• Developing melodic ideas, and creating melodic variations to fit a simple accompaniment
• Exploring the manipulation and extension of melodic ideas
• Developing formal structure
• Combining and arranging patterns and loops to achieve contrasts in rhythm and texture
• Using synthesizers, samplers, and audio effects to create original and appropriate sounds
• Using modified sounds as a basis for original ideas
• Combining ideas to create interest and contrast
• Balancing track levels to achieve a musical result
• Understanding how effects and EQ can enhance or change sounds
• Developing ideas to accompany video with a suitable musical atmosphere