Cakewalk SONAR Producer Recording Software (Windows)

Sonar 8 Producer includes everything in SONAR 8 Studio plus exclusive tools, effects, and instruments.

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176 People rated this product : * * * * * * * * * * 8 out of 10

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* * * * * * * * * * 9 out of 10

"Sonar is the best!"

Feature:
The audio snap is perfect for live playing! And it's pack with plenty of sounds!

Quality:
Cakewalk never fails in this section!They are masters at putting a realstic software together, but making it easy enought for first time software users like me!

Value:
The best for the price, plus they offer free downloads on their website.

Desirability:
Looks realistic, beats FL and Reason!!!

Sound:
Plenty of sounds to choose from!I give it a 8 because the sounds could be more authentic, but hey my sound card sucks!

Ease of Use:
They pretty much answer any question I have, plus the website discussion section is very helpful and it comes in handy believe me!

Support:
Didn't need anything!

Overall:
Ok, some of you guys eventually want to become succesful musicians or producers. This product will prepare you if not teach you exactly what you need to know!Reason, Ableton, and FL however are not a popular software used in studios!So mastering those mediocore software wouldn't do you any good, but this product will!!!

Submitted: 1/12/2008

* * * * * * * * * * 9 out of 10

"Turned my room into a recording studio."

Feature:
I am using Sonar 6 Producer Edition. This program is loaded deep. It is a little intimidating for a novice user such as myself and has quite a learning curve. I should get some of the tutorials available for this heavy weight audio production software. The manual assumes that the user is a recording engineer. Once I get the hang of doing something it starts to get really fun.

Quality:
Had some problems running a duo core Athlon CPU that was fixed with an update. The program seems stable and appears to be very well engineered, especially considering it's massive depth.

Value:
A lot of bang for the buck. Saving up for Sonar 7.

Desirability:
I think Sonar is a truly awesome piece of software. Being a novice I may have dove in deeper than I expected to. But taking the time to learn how to use has proven to be the most worth while investment in both my time and money that I could have hoped for and I love using this program.

Sound:
The hardest thing I have found in getting the sound right is setting the buffer size and sampling rate. Once the magic settings are found it sounds great. This program takes some tweaking to get where I want to be.

Ease of Use:
Like I said this program is deep. The hardest thing I have trouble with is setting up my Native Instruments software synths in it. Especially Battery 3. Not finding much help in the forums on that matter. But once I figure things out (a time consuming process) it starts to get really cool. The interface get crowded in a hurry but it has a lot of tools to get the job done. I also have difficulty editing midi in the editor. But I have this problem with any midi editor I try so it must be more me than Sonar. It just seems to try to think ahead of me and guess (wrongly) where I want notes. (Even with quantinizing turned off.) I have a lot to learn so I won't blame Cakewalk. Taking the time to figure things out has proven worthwhile as this program has shown me that it is more than capable of doing what I need it to do. This software is very powerful.

Support:
Very Good.

Overall:
For recording my guitar and creating drums bass and harmony this software does exactly what it is supposed to do and then a lot more. It is a powerful application with alot of depth and weight. I'm very glad I bought it.

Submitted: 9/28/2007

Style of Music: Hard Rock

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Sonar 8 Producer gives you what you need for recording, composing, editing, mixing, and mastering. Get innovations that matter, from exclusive features to ignite creativity and perfect your tracks, to groundbreaking technologies that always keep you in control, all backed by the industry's leading 64-bit audio quality. And Sonar 8 Producer delivers the go-to production tools you want with the best collection of virtual instruments, mixing, and mastering effects found in any DAW.

With unlimited tracks, amazing creative tools, inspiring virtual instruments, the freedom to work with any audio interface or control surface, and the most complete delivery capability for collaboration with users of other DAWS, award-winning Sonar Producer is your best choice in a digital audio workstation.

Features
Start producing quickly with track templates that instantly load your favorite sounds

Make beats and synth lines with a dedicated Step Sequencer

Manipulate the timing and feel of audio, just like MIDI, with AudioSnap

Assemble the perfect take from Track Layers using powerful comping and editing tools

Get sophisticated mixes with flexible routing options, unlimited sends, internal sidechaining, external effect inserts and over 30 surround configurations

Get hands on control of your mix, instruments, and effects with Active Controller Technology

The best audio quality in the industry: end-to-end 64-bit audio, tracks, effects, busses, and export

Get perfect vocal tracks with Roland V-Vocal

Amazing virtual instruments: Dimension Pro, Z3TA+, Rapture LE, True Pianos Amber, Beatscape Loop Performance instrument, 14 included instruments

Awesome effects: VC-64 Vintage Channel, Guitar Rig LE, TL-64 Tube Leveler, TS-64 Transient Shaper, Lexicon Pantheon and PerfectSpace Convolution Reverbs, 42 effects in all

Deliver your final master: LP-64 Linear Phase EQ, LP-64 Linear Phase Multiband, Boost 11 Peak Limiter, flexible export and delivery options

Collaborate with studios who use other DAWs including Pro Tools, Logic Studio, Cubase, and others

Sonar 8 Producer Exclusives
Sonar 8 Producer includes everything in Sonar 8 Studio plus exclusive tools, effects, and instruments:

- LP-64 Linear Phase Equalizer(TM) for mastering

- LP-64 Linear Phase Multiband(TM) Compressor for mastering

- TL-64 Tube Leveler(TM)

- VC-64 Vintage Channel(TM) with sidechaining capabilities

- Roland(R) V-Vocal(TM) 1.5 with Pitch to MIDI conversion

- Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3 LE

- Perfect Space(TM) Convolution Reverb

- Lexicon(R) Pantheon(TM) Reverb

- Sonitus Surround Compressor

- Dimension Pro(TM) 1.2 virtual synthesizer with Classic Keys Expansion Pack

- TruePianos Amber VSTi

- Beatscape(TM) looping instrument

- Hollywood Edge Sound FX library for Dimension Pro

- Z3TA+(TM) 1.5 waveshaping synthesizer

- Surround mixing in over 30 formats

- SurroundBridge(TM) technology to use stereo FX in surround

- POW-r dithering

Technical Info

System Requirement

Minimum
Operating System*: Windows XP (32-bit)

Processor Speed: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1500+ or higher

RAM: 512 MB

Graphics (resolution, color depth): 1024x768, 16-bit color

Hard Disk Space: 200 MB for core program

Hard Disk Type: Any

MIDI Interface**: Windows-compatible

Audio Interface***: Windows-compatible

Media Drive*****: DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R, or DVD+/- RW Drive (Dual Layer-capable drive required for installation of SONAR 8 Producer content)

Recommended
Operating System*: Windows XP/Vista (32 and 64-bit), can be run on Mac OS X with Boot Camp

Processor Speed: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 2.8 GHz [EM64T] AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2800+ or higher

RAM: 1 GB or higher

Graphics (resolution, color depth)
1280x960, 24-bit color or higher

Hard Disk Space: 30 GB for program and content

Hard Disk Type: EIDE/Ultra DMA (7200 RPM) or SATA

MIDI Interface**: Windows-compatible

Audio Interface***: Windows-compatible

Media Drive*****: DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R, or DVD+/- RW Drive (Dual Layer-capable drive required for installation of SONAR 8 Producer content)

* Sonar does not support Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP x64
** Required to connect external MIDI devices
*** Required for audio playback.
**** Sonar is presented on DVD media. DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R, or DVD+/- RW Drive required for installation.
***** Cakewalk Publisher requires you to have available web server space with FTP access privileges. An internet connection is required for music uploading. A broadband connection is recommended.
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