Don't sacrifice features for affordability—SONAR 7 Studio Edition offers the best creative tools, and the most power of any digital audio workstation in its price range. Built upon the same core feature set as SONAR 7 Producer Edition, SONAR 7 Studio Edition gives users the edge in their productions—from recording audio and MIDI, composing with virtual instruments, remixing with loops, mixing with professional effects, to delivery of a polished final track—with the recognized best audio quality of the industry.

SONAR 7 Studio Edition gives you the power to record, edit and mix unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI, and includes an ample array of audio effects, virtual instruments, and innovative technologies to maximize your creativity. These include the Boost 11 peak limiter, Dimension™ LE and Rapture™ LE virtual instruments, Active Controller Technology™, AudioSnap™ non-destructive audio quantize, audio and MIDI looping tools with ACID™-loop support, and much more. These are complemented by two virtual instruments from Roland®, the Lexicon Pantheon SE Reverb, AudioSnap™ rendering with iZotope Radius, thousands of instrument sounds, over a gigabyte of sample content, and much more.


Instruments

NEW! Dimension LE (with Garritan Pocket Orchestra)—real instruments and advanced synthesis
NEW! Rapture LE—modern synthesized sounds
NEW! DropZone—drag & drop sampler and REX loop Editor
NEW! 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! Boost 11—peak limiter
Sonitus:fx series—suite of studio-quality effects
Compressor (now with sidechaining)
Delay
Equalizer
Gate (now with sidechaining)
Modulator
Multiband
Phase
Reverb
Surround
Surround Compressor
Wahwah
Lexicon Pantheon LE—special version of 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
Compressor
Delay
Equalizer
Flange
Reverb


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

New:

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: Session Drummer 2, Dimension LE (featuring Garritan Pocket Orchestra), Rapture LE, and DropZone Sample player/synth; Over 1000 instruments sounds

Internal sidechaining for Sonitus:fx Compressor, Sonitus:fx Gate, 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

System Requirement Minimum Recommended
Operating System* Windows XP Windows XP/Vista (32 and 64-bit), can be run on Mac OS X with Boot Camp
Processor Speed Intel® Pentium® 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon™ XP 1500+ or higher Intel® Pentium® 4 2.8 GHz [EM64T]
AMD Athlon™ 64 2800+ or higher
RAM 256 MB 1 GB or higher
Graphics (resolution, color depth) 1024x768, 16-bit color 1280x960, 24-bit color or higher
Hard Disk Space 100 MB for full program installation 6 GB
Hard Disk Type Any EIDE/Ultra DMA (7200 RPM) or SATA
MIDI Interface** Windows-compatible
Audio Interface*** Windows-compatible WDM- or ASIO-compatible****
Media Drive***** DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R, or DVD+/- RW Drive

* SONAR does not officially support Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP x64
** Required to connect external MIDI devices
***Required for audio playback
**** See www.cakewalk.com/PCResource for a complete list of recommended audio devices
***** SONAR is presented on DVD media. DVD-ROM, DVD+/-R, or DVD+/- RW Drive required for installation.

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