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SONAR 7 Studio Edition

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Overview

Innovative technology and intuitive operation to maximize your creativity.

SONAR 7 from Cakewalk comes with a massive, dynamic assortment of audio effects, virtual instruments, and ingenious technologies. Use SONAR 7 Studio Edition to record, edit, and mix unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI. Now you can enhance and tidy up your raw creative ideas into the kind of polished finished product you'll be proud to share with others.

SONAR 7 was developed by musicians who pay attention to the concerns of the modern recording musician. With Grammy and Emmy winners composing for, producing, and engineering it's different features, you've got to feel confident that SONAR 7 Studio Edition isn't just a run-of-the-mill virtual studio.

Some of your soon-to-be favorite new functions will be the Boost 11 peak limiter, new Dimension LE and Rapture LE virtual instruments, added Active Controller Technology presets for popular hardware, Smart MIDI tools, an integrated step sequencer, and more. You also get thousands of instrument sounds, including two Roland virtual instruments; over a gigabyte of sample content; integrated CD ripping and burning; Cakewalk 2.0 for uploading and presenting music online; and hundreds of other options for tweaking and shaping your music.

Using the full power of your machine, whether you run it on a PC or Intel-based Mac (using Bootcamp), SONAR 7 works on a diverse array of hardware, from WDM to ASIO, stock soundcards up to an SSL AWS 900+ consoles. It also allows you to fully customize your studios menus, layouts, color schemes, track icons, and more to match the necessities of your projects. Have keystrokes from favorite applications you don't want to lose? With SONAR 7, you can load presets of them or make your own. In addition, you'll get unmatched support for control surfaces, MIDI controllers, and the ability to use DSP cards, as well as third party VST, DirectX, and ReWire effects and instruments.

Features

New features

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
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

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