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 portsfor 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


Sonar version 7 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
* 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, Sound Designer II
* Integrated Audio CD ripping and burning
* Cakewalk Publisher 2.0 for uploading and presenting music online


Producer Edition plug-ins
Sonar 7 Producer Edition includes an array of virtual instruments and studio-quality effects:

Instruments

* NEW! Dimension LE (with Garritan Pocket Orchestra)—real instruments and advanced synthesis
* NEW! Rapture LE—modern synthesized sounds
* NEW! Z3TA+—incredible analog-style sound shaping capibilities
* NEW! DropZone—drag & drop sampler and REX loop Editor.
* Pentagon I —vintage analog sounds
* PSYN II—full-featured subtractive synthesis
* RXP—REX player groove box
* Session Drummer 2—virtual drum instrument
* Roland TTS-1—GM2 Roland® synthesizer
* Roland GrooveSynth—Genuine groove box and synthesizer sounds
* SFZ—SoundFont sampler
* Cyclone—Groove sampler


Audio Effects
* NEW LP-64 EQ—linear phase mastering EQ
* NEW LP-64 Multiband—linear phase multiband limiter/compressor
* NEW Boost 11 —peak limiter
* Updated! VC-64 Vintage Channel—channel strip and dynamics processor (now with side-chaining) powered by Kjaerhus Audio
* Updated! Roland V-Vocal 1.5—vocal processor (now with pitch to MIDI conversion)
* Perfect Space—Convolution Reverb powered by Voxengo
* Sonitus:fx series—suite of studio-quality effects
o Compressor (now with sidechaining)
o Delay
o Equalizer
o Gate (now with sidechaining)
o Modulator
o Multiband
o Phase
o Reverb
o Surround
o Surround Compressor
o Wahwah
* Lexicon Pantheon—the legendary Lexicon found in pro studios
* Analyst—spectrum analyzer
* BitMeter—monitor digital activity of audio
* Amp Sim—classic and modern guitar tones
* Tape Sim—simulate the warm sound of tape
* Time/Pitch Processor—shift time and pitch audio
* DSP-FX series—classic Cakewalk effects
o Compressor
o Delay
o Equalizer
o Flange
o Reverb

MIDI Effects
* Arpeggiator
* Quantize
* Echo/Delay
* Transpose
* Velocity
* Event Filter
* Chord Analyzer

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Cakewalk SONAR 7 Academic Editions
tool for students of all ages.



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Tthe Academic Editions of SONAR 7 includes an additional CD-ROM featuring SONAR Music Projects. This set of classroom materials provides educators all the tools they need for introducing students to SONAR and helping them develop valuable musical and technical skills.

SONAR Music Projects
The Academic Editions of SONAR 7 include SONAR Music Projects on an additional CD-ROM at no additional charge. Developed for use with secondary and high school music classes, the 10 projects introduce some of SONAR's easy-to-use features and help students develop a range of musical and technical skills including:

* Listening and analyzing
* Composing and developing melodic ideas
* Achieving rhythmic and textural contrasts through use of patterns and loops
* Exploring and manipulating sounds
* Creating musical variation
* Developing formal structures
* Arranging, editing and refining recorded material
* Achieving dynamic contrasts
* Understanding basic mixing parameters and exploring the use of effects
* Composing music to a given brief
* Producing a video soundtrack
and much more

SONAR Music Projects include:* Teacher notes, student project sheets and SONAR files
* SONAR Skills Guide for easy reference
* Audio content for instant results