Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Indianapolis
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| Sonar 4.0 announced
Taken from Here Quote:
The definitive audio production environment for Windows
SONAR has a well-earned reputation for delivering powerful production tools in a fast, streamlined user interface. With SONAR 4, Cakewalk has added powerful new recording, editing, comping and navigation tools that optimize workflow for today's professional. In addition, version 4 combines innovative Surround Sound and AV capabilities along with precise engineering tools.
SONAR 4 Producer edition is the perfect solution for composing, recording, editing, mixing, and remixing music productions; and for providing foley, voice over, score, sound design and post audio for film, TV, video, commercials, and games.
With its open support for industry standard technologies and hardware, the scalability of a native processing system, and virtually unlimited software capabilities, SONAR 4 Producer represents the definitive audio & music production software for Windows.
SONAR 4 Producer Exclusives
- Multi-format surround mixing with over 30 configurations supported (5.1, 7.1, LCRS and more)
- Lexicon® Pantheon™ Surround Reverb
- Lexicon® Pantheon™ Reverb
- Sonitus Surround Compressor
- Sonitus fx Suite
- SurroundBridge™ - use stereo plug-ins in multi-channel environments
- Video Thumbnail track
- POW-r Dithering with three algorithms
- Prosoniq MPEX time scaling
- Dynamic Console with per-channel EQ, assignable FX controls
SONAR 4 New Features
- Track Folders with the ability to edit the Track Folder Composite Clip
- Loop record into layers or individual tracks
- Enhanced comping and editing features: clip muting, partial-clip muting, auto-crop tool with cross-fade mode, audition selection, isolate, nudge
- Multi-clip slip edits, loop-rolling, fade drawing
- Loop construction enhancements: slice-based envelope control of gain, pitch, pan; slice preview; auto-loop
- Freeze tracks, effects, and synths; edit, arrange, and convert frozen data into groove clips
- Scalable Navigator view to quickly navigate and size viewable area of projects
- Configurable Pan law (six stereo panning laws supported)
- Professional Metering (peak, RMS, peak and RMS, pre-fader, post-fader, and pre-fader post effects) with configurable ballistics
- Key Binding enhancements: presets; templates to mimic keyboard assignments of other DAW programs
- TTS-1 multitimbral, multi-out GM2 synthesizer with authentic Roland® sounds
- Full control over file export parameters, now with useful and configurable presets
- Windows Media Audio 9 (WMA), WMA9 Pro 5.1, and WMA9 lossless encoding and decoding
- Open support for external encoders: surround (Producer Edition only), LAME, Ogg Vorbis, Monkey's Audio, etc.
- Supports QuickTime, Windows Media Video, and AVI with 5.1 Surround Sound (Producer Edition only)
- Bus-able Audio Metronome
- Full-control over color settings
- Optimized audio engine performance
- Export buses and tracks into a composite mixdown, or as individual files
SONAR 4 Key Features - Record, edit, arrange and mix unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI
- Dynamic Console
- Universal Bus Architecture with on-the-fly configuration
- 32-Bit floating point audio engine
- 80-Bit automation
- Full plug-in delay compensation
- Ultra-high quality sample rate conversion with Windowed Sync resampler algorithm
- Support for any sampling rate (44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 192, 384 kHz)
- Precise waveform display at any zoom resolution
- Rock-solid synchronization of audio, MIDI, video, external hardware
- Sub-sample accurate internal timing resolution for audio, soft synths and automation; 960 PPQN for external MIDI devices
- HyperThreading/multiprocessor optimization
- Loop-based composition, construction, and editing tools with ACID™ loop and MIDI groove clip support, Cyclone DXi
- Support for DirectX and VST audio effects; MFX MIDI FX; DXi and VSTi soft synths; and ReWire 1.0 & 2.0 clients (Project5, Kinetic, Reason, more)
- Includes 31 audio effects 4 DXi soft synths, 14 MFX
- Advanced MIDI routing & synth layering
- Unlimited undo/redo with edit history
- Assign hotkeys for custom screen layouts
- Views: Arrange, Big Time, Console, Drum Editor, Event List, Loop Construction, Lyrics, Markers, Multitrack Piano Roll, Staff Notation, Playlist, SYSEX, Synth Rack, Tempo list/graph, Video, more
- Professional Project File Management Tools: per project audio directories; consolidate project files for fast backup; search for associated files
- Extensive, context-sensitive online help and 650+ page printed manual
- Unparalleled, free customer service and online user community
- Hassle-free copy protection (serial number on installation)
- Designed exclusively for and optimized for Windows XP/2000
Hardware and compatibility - OMFI & Broadcast Wave import/export for cross platform collaboration with Digital Performer, Logic, Nuendo, and Pro Tools studios
- Import formats: AIF, ASF, AU, AVI (with stereo or 5.1 audio), Broadcast Wave, MIDI, MP2, MP3, MPEG, MPG, OMFI, Quicktime, SND, WAV, Windows Media Audio 9 (WMA), WMA9 Pro 5.1, WMA9 lossless, Windows Media Video, proprietary Cakewalk formats (.bun, .cwb, .cwp, .wrk)
- Export: WAV, ACID-format WAV, Broadcast Wave, AVI (with stereo or 5.1 audio),, OMFI, MIDI, MP3*, Quicktime,, Real Audio G2, Windows Media Audio 9 (WMA), WMA9 Pro 5.1, WMA9 lossless, and proprietary Cakewalk formats (.cwb, .cwp); Other audio formats supported via external command-line encoders
- Open support for external encoders: surround, LAME, Ogg Vorbis, Monkey's Audio, etc.
- Export video with control over quality settings and codecs
Support for any MIDI compatible hardware control surface (Edirol, Mackie, Tascam, more) - Frame-accurate SMPTE sync with auto-detection of timecode
- Multi-port MTC and MIDI sync transmission
- Yamaha OPT Level 1 MIDI Hardware Link support
Support for all Windows-compatible audio hardware (including Pro Tools | HD) via ASIO or WDM
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noice.
altho' i'd been holding off on getting the discounted Sonar (i'm a registered P5 user) ... now i'll wait until they officially offer 4.0
Aside from Nuendo, they use Sonar alot in non-multi-media projects. So far, i've liked it.
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