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Break through the limits of your effect and synth use with SONAR
4. SONAR 4's superior freeze implementation for tracks, effects, and synths
allows you to optimize your system resources with a new level of flexibility.
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Render your tracks to reduce CPU load
in one easy step
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SONAR will automatically unload
plug-ins, releasing memory back to the system
(especially helpful when using large sampler banks)
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SONAR 4 efficiently freezes only when
data is present, conserving disk space
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Quick Unfreeze/Freeze retains frozen
data when unfreezing, for quick toggling/auditioning
of tracks. This allows you to experiment with
settings of Frozen tracks, and you can revert back
instantly if you decide not to make the change.
Version
4 extends SONAR's powerful loop editing and composition
capabilities with slice-based control of gain, pitch,
pan.
First
introduced in Cyclone DXi, this functionality has been
incorporated into the Loop Construction view and
enhanced by giving you envelope automation control over
these parameters. Slice preview with auto-loop
simplifies marker placement and adjustments during the
loop construction process.
SKU:
CAKS4P1
Cakewalk Sonar 4 Producer Edition
Multi-format surround mixing and editing with over 30
configurations supported (5.1, 7.1, LCRS, etc.).
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Intuitive
surround panner: focus, width, angle, front/rear balance
controls, LFE send; speaker muting & soloing; control
surface/joystick support.
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Lexicon®
Pantheon™ Surround Reverb—get the pristine sound of classic
Lexicon Reverbs—for the first time ever in multi-channel
environments up to 5.1. Stereo version of Lexicon Pantheon
also included.
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Sonitus
Surround Compressor—a professional, nine-channel compressor
specifically designed for surround applications.
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SurroundBridge™—use stereo plug-ins in multi-channel
environments. Patches and links plug-ins across all channels
on a surround bus allowing for control from a single UI.
Unlink for different settings on different channels.
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Sonitus:fx
Suite—critically acclaimed automatable effects: Compressor,
Delay, Gate, Modulator, Multiband Compressor, Parametric EQ,
Phase, Reverb, Surround, Wah wah.
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Video
Thumbnail track—makes scoring to video even easier,
perfectly align audio with on-screen action, auto-snap to
frame, more.
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POW-r
Dithering—unique, patent pending algorithms for converting
20, 24, and 32 bit audio to CD standard 16-bit format, while
retaining dynamic efficiency and very low noise, optimized
for use with all sample rates.
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Prosoniq
MPEX time scaling—great for matching audio to video or for
loop/sample authoring.
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Dynamic
Console with per-channel EQ and assignable FX
controls—access effect and EQ setting directly from the
Console view without opening plug-in windows.
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Track
Folders with the ability to edit the Track Folder Composite
Clip
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Loop record
into layers or individual tracks
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Enhanced
comping and editing features: nudge, clip muting,
partial-clip muting, auto-crop tool with cross-fade mode,
audition selection, isolate
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Group
editing (simultaneous multi-clip): slip edits, loop-rolling,
fade drawing
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Loop
construction enhancements: slice-based envelope control of
gain, pitch, pan; slice preview; auto-loop
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Freeze
tracks, effects, and synths; edit, arrange, and convert
frozen data into groove clips; unload samplers from memory
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Scalable
Navigator view to quickly navigate and size viewable area of
projects
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Configurable Pan law (six stereo panning laws supported)
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Professional Metering (peak, RMS, peak and RMS, pre-fader,
post-fader, and pre-fader post effects) with configurable
ballistics
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Key Binding
enhancements: presets; templates to mimic keyboard
assignments of other DAW programs
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TTS-1
multitimbral, multi-out GM2 synthesizer with authentic
Roland® sounds
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Full
control over file export parameters, now with useful and
customizable presets
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Windows
Media Audio 9 (WMA), WMA9 Pro 5.1, and WMA9 lossless
encoding and decoding
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Open
support for external command-line encoders: surround, LAME,
Ogg Vorbis, Monkey's Audio, etc.
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Supports
QuickTime, Windows Media Video with 5.1 Surround Sound, and
AVI with 5.1 Surround Sound
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Busable
Audio Metronome
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Full-control over color settings
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Optimized
audio engine performance
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Export
buses and tracks into a composite mixdown, or as individual
files
Workflow—Track Folders
These days, professional projects can
easily reach 60, 80, or even more than 100 tracks. SONAR 4's
Track Folders allow you to organize tracks into folders for
managing your large scale projects and loop-recorded takes. When
tracks are organized into folders, you can quickly mute, solo,
record, archive and perform other functions on all of the tracks
in the folder. This is a great feature for managing a multi-mic
recording such as drums, or for tracks that you would normally
group together such as background vocals. In addition you can
also import multi-channel audio into track folders.
Track Folders Composite
Clip
Existing audio/MIDI track clips that overlap the same time range
are displayed in a Composite Clip that you can cut-copy-paste,
move, slip edit, and split. A track folder can contain multiple
composite clips.
Track folders with composite
clip give the best of both worlds: fast arranging of multi-mic
or grouped parts, plus the capability to expand the folder for
complete control over individual parameters when necessary.
Edit your audio and MIDI takes
into a perfect composite track faster than ever with Track
Layers and SONAR 4's powerful new comping and editing
enhancements.
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With Track
Layers, you can now display overlapping clips in individual
lanes. This makes it easy to see and edit each take
individually without using separate tracks
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Record
takes with non-destructive Auto Punch Record Mode
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Patch one
instance of effects on multiple track layers, saving CPU
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Audition
selected content while comping parts
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Build your
composite using Clip Muting or Partial Clip Muting
(time-based within a clip) to isolate takes or sections of
takes
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Seamlessly
set the transition from one clip to the next in a single
gesture with SONAR 4's Auto-crop tool with crossfade option
Simultaneous Clip
Editing
Speed your editing sessions to
completion by performing the following edits on multiple clips
simultaneously: nudge, roll out groove clips, slip edit, and
add/edit fades. In addition, clip data is now displayed while
moving clips.
Nudge
Use this new clip/note editing enhancement to
fine tune and time correct your music. You can now Nudge both
vertically and horizontally within the Track and Piano Roll
views. SONAR 4 offers extremely flexible nudge resolutions
(musical time, seconds, milliseconds, frames, samples, ticks,
follow snap settings) with a total of eight nudge commands that
can be assigned to any key or MIDI event.
Edit and arrange frozen tracks
A distinguishing feature of
SONAR 4's Freeze implementation is the ability to move and edit
frozen data—you can even convert loops of frozen data into
groove clips.
Navigator View
Making sample level edits in SONAR's
Track View has never been easier. SONAR 4's Navigator View
provides a bird's eye view of an entire project. Swiftly
navigate through projects and view exact details with quick
adjustments of track height, duration, and viewable area.
Key Bindings enhancements
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Version 4
extends SONAR's keystroke actions with access to single key
functions and the transport keys now active in all views
including plug-in windows
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Version 4
also includes built-in keystroke emulating templates for
other DAWs including Cubase, Nuendo, Logic, Digital
Performer, Samplitude, and other DAWs providing convenience
on cross-platform projects or for easy migrating to the
SONAR platform.
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You can
also Import/Export your custom SONAR key binding presets for
sharing/backup/transfer to other workstations.
Bus-able Audio
Metronome
You can route SONAR 4's Audio
Metronome through any bus for flexibility in multi-player
recording sessions (any selected bus, in turn, can be send to
any available main out); allows for the adjustment of separate
metronome levels in each headphone mix; easy automation of
mute/volume; you can also use custom sounds.
Color enhancements
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Additional
new color entries and color scheme presets
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Completely
configurable Console view colors
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Per-clip
background and foreground color settings
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Tracks now
have assignable clip/data colors that remain with the track,
even when sorting.
Get the latest scoop on all the
new workflow enhancements
featured in SONAR 4. If you are using a previous version of
SONAR or Pro Audio, this is a must-read. SONAR 4 will
revolutionize the way you record, mix and edit your projects,
and includes many user-requested features.
Engineered to meet the needs of
mixing professionals, SONAR 4 Producer Edition provides a
complete surround mixing and editing environment with support
for over 30 configurations, including 5.1, 7.1, LCRS, and
others.
Surround Panner
The intuitive Surround Panner is
the nexus of version 4's surround mixing paradigm offering
control that extends far beyond a simple x/y axis.
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The
Surround Panner utilizes focus, width, angle, and front/rear
balance controls to provide a more responsive and expressive
control interface
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Speaker
muting and soloing allows you to monitor specific speakers
or isolate specific channels for fine tuning, or shut off
specific speakers to eliminate unwanted bleed
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LFE send,
and extensive control surface/Joystick support further
accentuate the flexibility of the SONAR 4 surround
implementation
In addition, SONAR 4 offers
transparent down-mixing and bass management, and any surround
bus can be routed to another surround or stereo bus to deliver
different mixes.
Access the
world-class, pristine sound of Lexicon reverb for the first time
ever in multi-channel environments up to 5.1. With its simple
and powerful interface and legendary sound you will quickly find
this reverb to be an indispensable tool for your surround
projects. Features numerous factory presets and full editing
capabilities for creating custom presets. Stereo version of
Lexicon Pantheon also included.
Exclusive Sonitus Surround Compressor
No surround implementation would be complete without a
full-featured surround compressor. SONAR 4 includes a
nine-channel version of the critically acclaimed Sonitus
Compressor, specifically designed for surround applications. All
nine channels are grouped by default and any peaks in any
channel will trigger compression/limiting. With the Sonitus
Surround Compressor it's easy to isolate channels in up to 4
groups, an example of when this could be useful is when your LFE
might need its own threshold setting. The Sonitus Surround
Compressor features a
Peak/Sum detector to further enable your dynamics processing
power.
Exclusive SurroundBridge™
This innovation takes the SONAR 4 surround feature-set a
step further, allowing you to use your favorite stereo plug-in
within multi-channel environments.
SurroundBridge seamlessly creates multiple instances of any
effect, providing complete linked control across all channels
from a single UI.
That means when you move one control it will simultaneously
affect the audio on all surround channels.
You can also unlink channels or individual controls from the
SurroundBridge UI which allows for subtle refinement or
drastically new surround effects.
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Perfectly
align your audio with on-screen action
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Quickly
locate video scenes across an entire project
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Video
thumbnails resize dynamically to project zoom
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Auto-snap
to frame
Support for industry
standard video formats
SONAR 4 adds import/export support for
QuickTime, as well as Windows Media Video (with 5.1 audio), and
AVI (with 5.1 audio). As you would expect, SONAR still includes
support for MPEG video.
Surround and AV delivery
Complementing SONAR 4's
extensive surround mixing and editing capabilities are a
powerful array of delivery options that include:
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Windows
Media Audio 9 (WMA), WMA9 Pro 5.1, and WMA9 lossless
encoding and decoding
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QuickTime,
Windows Media Video (with stereo or 5.1 surround sound), AVI
(with stereo or 5.1 surround sound)
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Additional
formats can be exported with SONAR 4's open support for
external command-line encoders (surround, LAME, Ogg Vorbis,
Monkey's Audio, etc.)
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SONAR 4
provides a convenient export video option with full control
over quality settings and codecs
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Includes
useful and configurable presets for frequently-used export
settings
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You can
also now export buses and tracks into a composite mixdown,
or as individual files, which is perfect for collaborating
with studios that may not have support for file formats such
as OMFI
POW-r
Dithering provides the highest-quality, ultra-transparent
digital-audio bit reduction; reducing 20, 24, and 32 bit audio
to CD standard 16-bit format, while retaining perceived dynamic
efficiency with very low noise. POW-r Dithering is optimized for
use with all sample rates.
When you combine this with SONAR's Windowed Sinc,
ultra-high-quality sample rate conversion, you now have the
flexibility to import and export audio at any bit depth and
sample rate, while preserving pristine levels of audio fidelity.
Prosoniq MPEX Time Scaling
Time scaling (also known as time stretching, time
compression/expansion and time correction) is the process of
changing a sound's length without changing its pitch. SONAR 4
Producer Edition features Prosoniq MPEX time scaling, a superior
time scaling algorithm that is great for matching audio to video
or for loop/sample authoring.
The MPEX algorithm simulates some properties of human
perception. It makes your computer 'learn' what's being played,
using a technique called 'Artificial Neural Networks', which is
a computer simulation of the activities of human nerve cells.
Our ears are very good at adapting and learning what is being
presented to it, so if we simulate the processes that make our
ear work the way it does, we will to some extent simulate a part
of its abilities.
MPEX looks at your audio in regular intervals, 'learns' its
musical aspects, and then tries to extend it in a natural
sounding way. It is this 'intelligence' and flexibility in the
sound representation that makes MPEX a better Time Scaling
technique.
Accurate metering provides the
essential feedback you need when mixing in a professional
environment. SONAR 4's Meter performance has been dramatically
improved with configurable rise, fall, decay, and more. SONAR's
also allows more meter control with options to display meters
with peak, RMS, peak and RMS, pre-fader, post-fader, and
pre-fader post effects, and varying db ranges.
Configurable Pan Control (six stereo panning laws)
With version 4 SONAR now allows you to control your panning
exactly the way you prefer with 4 constant power panning laws
supported, and two additional panning laws supported:
Constant power panning
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sin/cos
taper, boosts 3dB when panned hard left/right
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sin/cos
taper, cuts 3dB when center panned
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square-root
taper, boosts 3dB boost when panned hard left/right
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square-root
taper, cuts 3dB when center panned
Additional panning laws
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Linear
taper, cuts 6dB when center panned
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Balance
control, with no boost or cut
Optimized audio engine
performance
With every version of SONAR we
continue to fine tune the responsiveness of the audio engine.
You'll find that Version 4 is no exception: it runs smoother, is
more responsive, and utilizes CPU more efficiently.
TTS-1 is a high quality,
multitimbral, multi-out GM2 (General MIDI System Level 2
compatible) DXi synthesizer that is equipped with a Roland®
synth engine to generate amazing, expressive sounds. 256
instrument sounds and 9 drum sets are included, and each
instrument has a wide level of tone variation -all accessed from
a friendly user interface and dedicated control panel for easy
customization of sounds.
Features
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256
instrument sounds and 9 drum sets, and you can create your
own presets
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Up to
128-voice polyphony
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Up to 16
part multi-instrument playback
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Send
different sounds to multiple outputs for more flexible
mixing
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Up to
24-bit resolution and 96 kHz sampling rate performance
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Dedicated
control panel to easily customize the sounds
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High
quality reverb, chorus, delay, and EQ
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GM2
(General MIDI System Level 2) compatible
Plus the core features that have made SONAR the definitive
audio production environment on the Windows platform
Hardware and compatibility
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Support for
all Windows-compatible audio hardware (including Pro Tools |
HD) via ASIO or WDM
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Support for
any MIDI compatible hardware control surface (Edirol,
Mackie, Tascam, more)
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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)
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OMFI &
Broadcast Wave import/export for cross platform
collaboration with Digital Performer, Logic, Nuendo, and Pro
Tools studios
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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)
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Export:
WAV, ACID-format WAV, Broadcast Wave, AVI (with stereo or
5.1 audio), OMFI, MIDI, MP3 (30-day trial encoder),
QuickTime, Real Audio G2, Windows Media Audio 9 (WMA), WMA9
Pro 5.1, WMA9 lossless, Windows Media Video (with stereo or
5.1 audio), and proprietary Cakewalk formats (.cwb, .cwp);
Other audio formats supported via external command-line
encoders
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Open
support for external encoders: surround, LAME, Ogg Vorbis,
Monkey's Audio, etc.
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Export
video with control over quality settings and codecs
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Frame-accurate SMPTE sync with auto-detection of timecode
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Multi-port
MTC and MIDI sync transmission
- Yamaha OPT Level 1 MIDI Hardware Link support
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