SONAR 7 Producer Edition brings you freedom in computer music recording like never before. Gone are the limits on track count bus routing and effect or instrument inserts. Add to that a gigantic selection of audio effects virtual instruments and improved technologies to pump up your production and we're talking about an enormous creative canvas on which to paint your ideas.

Some new exclusive features to have fun getting to know are the precision LP-64 EQ & LP-64 Multiband linear phase mastering plug-ins Z3TA+ waveshaping synthesizer Dimension LE and Rapture LE instruments more Active Controller Technology presets and the Roland V-Vocal 1.5 processor with pitch-to-MIDI conversion. You also get surround mixing in over 30 formats including SurroundBridge technology to use stereo FX in surround; the Sonitus Surround Compressor; instruments like the PSYN II subtractive synth and the Pentagon I analog modeling synth; and effects like Perfect Space Convolution Reverb powered by Voxengo and Lexicon Pantheon Reverb. Other components you'll end up toying with are two Roland virtual instruments the VC-64 Vintage Channel plug-in with sidechaining capabilities AudioSnap rendering with iZotope Radius POW-r dithering thousands of instrument sounds over a gigabyte of sample content and much more.

The beauty of SONAR is that not only does it utilize the full potential of your computer and constantly adapt to new technologies with each subsequent release but it stays simple enough for the average Joe to be able to jump right into. Developed by musicians with their peers in mind SONAR 7 gives you the choose to configure your studio to better meet the demands of your recording styles and needs even allowing you to load presets of keystrokes from your favorite applications or design your own. Its compatibility with soundcards plug-ins MIDI controllers and 3rd party effects and instruments simply expands your options and the fact that you can customize everything from menus to track icons makes SONAR like your personal shopping center for musical possibilities.

This specially-priced Academic Single Edition will give you an incredible tool to show your music students how making music today is becoming more uncomplicated as technology continues to advance. It even comes with a bonus SONAR Music Project teaching curriculum CD-ROM developed by leading music educators giving you valuable advice on how to enlighten pupils not just on the use of SONAR but music conceptualization in general as well.

Cakewalk SONAR 7 Producer Academic Single Edition Specifications:

• System Requirements
• Operating system (minimum):
• Windows XP
• Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz AMD Athlon XP 1500+ or higher
• 256 MB RAM
• 1024x768 16-bit color graphics resolution
• 100 MB hard disk space for full program installation
• Any Hard Disk Type
• Windows-compatible MIDI interface for connecting MIDI devices
• Windows-compatible audio interface for audio playback
• DVD-ROM DVD+/-R or DVD+/-RW Drive required for installation
  
  Operating system (recommended):
• Windows XP/Vista (32 and 64-bit) can be run on Mac OS X with Boot Camp
• Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz [EM64T] AMD Athlon 64 2800+ or higher
• 1 GB or higher RAM
• 1280x960 24-bit color or higher color graphics resolution
• 6 GB hard disk space
• EIDE/Ultra DMA (7200 RPM) or SATA Hard Disk Type
• Windows-compatible MIDI interface for connecting MIDI devices
• WDM- or ASIO-compatible audio interface for audio playback (see cakewalk.com for complete list)
• DVD-ROM DVD+/-R or DVD+/-RW Drive required for installation
  
  Note:
• SONAR does not officially support Windows 95 98 ME NT 2000 or XP x64
• Registration is required for continued use of the product and may be done by Internet or telephone. Instructions and Cakewalk's privacy policy will be detailed to you during launch of the product.
  
  

Cakewalk SONAR 7 Producer Academic Single Edition Features:

• Exclusive to the Producer Edition
• 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
  
  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 and Sound Designer II
• Integrated audio CD ripping and burning
• Cakewalk Publisher 2.0 for uploading and presenting music online
  
  SONAR Music Project teaching curriculum CD-ROM
• 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

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