Cakewalk SONAR 8.5 Producer Recording Software Crossgrade

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Cakewalk SONAR 8.5 Producer

Recording Software is packed with all the world-class virtual instruments and pro audio effects included in the Studio Edition, yet adds 18 more premium effects, tools and instruments to really polish and professionalize your tracks. 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.

SONAR 8.5 Producer Included Instruments:

• LP-64 EQ linear phase mastering
• LP-64 Multiband linear phase mastering compressor/limiter
• TS-64 Transient Shaper
• TL-64 Tube Leveler
• VC-64 Vintage Channel with sidechaining capabilities
• Roland V-Vocal 1.5 with Pitch to MIDI conversion
• Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3 LE
• Perfect Space Convolution Reverb
• Lexicon Pantheon Reverb
• Sonitus Surround Compressor
• Dimension Pro 1.2 virtual synthesizer with Classic Keys Expansion Pack
• TruePianos Amber VSTi
• Beatscape looping instrument
• Hollywood Edge Sound FX library for Dimension Pro
• Z3TA+ waveshaping synthesizer
• Surround mixing in over 30 formats
• SurroundBridge technology to use stereo FX in surround
• POW-r dithering
• Rapture LE - modern electronic sounds for today's music
• DropZone - easy-to-use drag and drop sampler with REX support
• Pentagon I - access vintage analog sounds
• PSYN II - full-featured subtractive synthesizer
• RXP - easy-to-use REX player/groove box
• Roland GrooveSynth and TTS-1 with genuine Roland Sounds
• Session Drummer 2 - create drum parts easily with a live feel, includes popular drum patterns to get started
• Sonitus:fx Suite - Reverb, EQ, Delay, Compressor, Wah, and more
• Boost 11 Peak Limiter for maximum punch from your final mix
• Channel Tools - essential stereo enhancement, utilizing sample delay, MS Decoding, and independent left/right panning
• Garritan Pocket Orchestra for Dimension LE provides a complete set of orchestral instrumentation

Unlimited tracks and track templates, for getting infinitely creative
Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition puts no limits on your creativity, so you can create as complex of orchestrations as your imagination churns out. There are no track count limits or similar restrictions. And to jump-start the creative process, Cakewalk even added a host of project and track templates that instantly load your favorite sounds. Just call one up and fill it up with music.

Start to finish - all the tools you need to make and produce music
If you're taking your first step into professional computer-based music creation and production, Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition is designed to swiftly propel your craft. Cakewalk SONAR 8.5 Producer provides a serious amount of inspiring musical instruments, so you can easily develop everything from electronic grooves to acoustic orchestrations. And if you're recording audio, SONAR 8 Producer Edition gives you an extremely high level of editing tools and plug-in effects, so you can lay out your tracks, polish them, and then publish them - just like the professionals. In short, Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition excels at every step of the music-creation and music-production process. It's an incredibly powerful, comprehensive software suite.

Includes a tremendous amount of virtual instruments
With Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition, you can explore a diverse landscape of sounds and musical instruments right from the moment you open the box. You get tons of premium virtual instruments, ranging from vintage analog synthesizer leads to drum hits to organic, acoustic sounds. Just use your favorite MIDI keyboard controller to play in phrases expressively and layer one on top of the other to create incredible-sounding backing tracks and inspiration for new songs. The suite includes Dimension Pro 1.2 Cakewalk's award-winning virtual instrument, offering everything from rich acoustic sounds to atmospheric pads with plenty of tweakability. You also get incredible guitar amp and pedal modeling, courtesy of Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3 LE. Or, for modern electronic sounds, you've got Rapture LE, and PSYN II in addition to grooves, drum patterns, and more, thanks to DropZone, Pentagon I, RXP, Roland GrooveSynth, Roland TTS-1, and Session Drummer 2.

More professional plug-ins and audio effects than any version of SONAR
The difference between a good song sketch and a professional track rests in the polishing. You need reverb to add just the right amount of room ambience, maybe a touch of compression to fatten up the kick and bass, EQ to sculpt each sound and the overall mix, and then pro-quality mastering tools to give your mix the punch it needs to stand up next your favorite CDs. Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition puts all of these tools right into your hands, so you're ready to create at the top level. You get a serious amount of audio effects and tools, including the Sonitus:fx Suite that's packed with reverb, equalization, compression, wah, and even more tools. Plus, you get the Lexicon Pantheon Reverb that's based on the legendary Lexicon hardware. And for giving your mix that crucial last "kick," the acclaimed Boost 11 Peak Limiter is included, as well. Other tools include the LP-64 EQ Multiband linear phase mastering compressor/limiter, the TS-64 transient shaper, the TL-64 tube leveler, the VC-64 Vintage Channel with sidechaining capabilities, the Roland V-Vocal with Pitch to MIDI conversion, Perfect Space Convolution Reverb, and more.

Intuitive environment to work within
The creative work environment is as important as the actual tools - and fortunately, Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition gives you the best of both. Not only do you get a complete artillery of editing tools and time-saving tricks, but it's also all couched within an intuitive environment. Enjoy fast-access to all the essential controls and parameters within SONAR 8 Producer Edition and rapidly create your music.

Flexible tools for editing MIDI information
Using Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition's extensive, customizable Smart MIDI editing tools, you can get inside your MIDI information and quickly tweak it to achieve perfect virtual instrument tracks. A few tools in the extensive MIDI-editing toolbox include Drag-Quantize, for quickly aligning selected notes and events with snap settings, a multilane Piano Roll view, a MIDI magnifier, and a velocity colorizer.

Tools to conserve PC processing power and balance CPU processing
SONAR 8 Producer Edition is designed to take advantage of the power of today's cutting-edge multi-processor PCs, including eight cores. SONAR 8 intelligently balances its processing load across all the available resources, so you enjoy the best performance possible. And if you want to harness even more horsepower as you concentrate on different parts of your mix, you can freeze tracks, instruments, and effects to conserve processing power - great for pulling together a ton of juice as you lay down another part or print a CPU-hungry virtual instrument track to audio.

Automatic plug-in delay compensation saves you from frustrations
With Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition, you don't have to worry about "nudging" your audio tracks to make up for latency problems caused by plug-ins, or even by outboard hardware effects. The automatic plug-in delay compensation feature keeps your head in the music, instead of calculating minute delay times every time you decide to enrich your sound with another plug-in.

Easily upload songs to the Internet and build song players for your website
The Internet is already an integral part of the music process - not only for promoting your band, songs, studio abilities, and more, but also distributing your music. Cakewalk SONAR 8 Producer Edition is there for you after you've completed your mix with helpful tools for taking your audio straight from your computer and publishing it to the 'net. Using Cakewalk Publisher, you can even build a song player for your website to showcase your latest creations.

Burn and rip CDs right inside SONAR and save in virtually any audio format
Once you're inside the SONAR 8 Producer Edition environment, you can stay there. Rip a CD right into SONAR, to sample your old tracks or save them as a more e-mailable file format. In fact, you can save your SONAR projects in just about any recognized audio format, including Sony Wave-64, AIF, CAF, FLAC, SD2, WAV, QuickTime, MP3, and WMA. You can also export to OMFI and Broadcast WAV, for tweaking your tracks within other DAWs. And when it's finally time to complete your project, SONAR 8 Producer Edition offers integrated CD burning, making it a true one-stop destination for music creation, production, and final publication.

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

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