Cakewalk Sonar 5 Producer

Striking the perfect balance between passion and precision, SONAR 5 shatters the limitations found in ordinary digital audio workstations. Offering a complete spectrum of creative technologies, SONAR 5 inspires your artistic expression. These technologies are fully integrated within a cutting edge engineering and mixing environment to transform your musical dreams into professional finished productions.

Grammy and Emmy Award winning musicians, producers, composers, sound designers, and engineers around the world turn to SONAR daily to fire their inspiration and deliver professional results. Whether you are one of these select few, or are aspiring for greatness, SONAR 5 is the definitive audio production environment for all.

NEW—PSYN?II subtractive synth, Pentagon?I vintage analog synth, Roland?GrooveSynth? SFZ SoundFont sampler, RXP ?REX Player groove box

Additional instruments include TTS-1? Cyclone? and DreamStation?

NEW—Perfect Space?Convolution Reverb

Additional effects include Lexicon?Pantheon?Reverb, Sonitus:fx Suite (10 effects), many more

NEW—Updated MIDI FX plug-ins

NEW—Integrated inline audio and MIDI editing, arranging, and mixing all in one view

NEW—Envelope automation drawing enhanced with tempo-sync patterns, freehand, more

NEW—Object-oriented clip-based effects and editing including per-clip effects bin, clip-based effect automation, and more

SurroundBridge™—use your favorite stereo effect plug-ins in surround

NEW—Advanced step recording

Edit and print traditional staff notation

Professional Project File Management Tools: manage large projects effectively with Navigator Pane and Track Folders; per project audio directories; consolidate project files for fast backup; search for associated files; more

NEW—Video output to 1394 FireWire devices for high quality viewing with lower CPU and disk usage

Sync to and send SMPTE/MTC for scoring external video

OMFI & Broadcast Wave import/export for collaboration with Digital Performer, Logic, Nuendo, and Pro Tools studios

Import formats: AIF, ASF, AU, AVI (with stereo or 5.1 audio), Broadcast Wave, MIDI, MP2, MP3, MPEG, MPG, OMFI, QuickTime 6, SND, WAV (including 32-bit float files), Windows Media Audio 9 (WMA), WMA9 Pro 5.1, WMA9 lossless, Windows Media Video, proprietary Cakewalk formats (.bun, .cwb, .cwp, .wrk)

Export: WAV (including 32-bit float files), ACID?format WAV, Broadcast Wave, AVI (with stereo or 5.1 audio), OMFI, MIDI, MP3 (30-day trial encoder), QuickTime 6, 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.

Minimum System Requirements

Operating System: Windows XP

Processor Speed: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 Ghz/AMD Athlon XP 1500+

RAM: 128 MB

Hard Disk Space: 100 MB

Hard Disk Type: Any

Graphics: 1024 X 768, 16-bit color

MIDI Interface**: Windows compatible

Sound Card***: Windows compatible

Recommended System Requirements

Operating System: Windows XP/x64*

Processor Speed: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz+/AMD Athlon 64 2800+

RAM: 512 MB

Hard Disk Space: Multiple GBs

Hard Disk Type: EIDI/Ultra DMA (7200 RPM) or SCSI Hard Drive

Graphics: 1280 X 960, 24-bit color or higher

MIDI Interface**: Windows compatible

Sound Card***: WDM or ASIO compatible****

* Required to run native 64-bit version of SONAR 5

** Required to connect to external MIDI devices

*** Required for audio playback

**** Click here for a complete list of recommended audio cards

Please Note:

SONAR 5 does not support Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, or 2000.

DVD-ROM required to install SONAR 5 Producer Edition.

QuickTime support requires QuickTime 6 or higher.