Cakewalk Sonar Producer Edition 8.5 Update 8.5.3 2.20 Gb With unlimited tracks, amazing creative tools, inspiring virtual instruments, the freedom to work with any audio interface or control surface, and the most complete delivery capability for collaboration with users of other DAWS, award-winning SONAR Producer is your best choice in a digital audio workstation. Sonar X3 Producer is a product developed by Cakewalk. This site is not directly affiliated with Cakewalk. All trademarks, registered trademarks, product names and company names or logos mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
Your Start-to-finish Music Production Suite!
NOTE: This is a special offer for owners of SONAR 8.5 Producer to upgrade to SONAR X1 Producer at a reduced price.
Are you ready to make music? Cakewalk SONAR X1 Producer is. This amazing DAW is like nothing you've seen before. Cakewalk SONAR X1 Producer isn't just an upgrade from version 8.x, it's a complete redesign of the SONAR environment that will speed up your workflow and keep you locked in your creative zone. With SONAR X1 Producer, you have everything you need to go from a clean slate to broadcast-ready music and cinematic soundscapes. The overarching concept behind the SONAR X1 environment is the new Skylight user interface environment.
Skylight combines the flexibility responsible for making SONAR one of the most popular DAWs with a MultiDock toolbar that keeps all of SONAR X1's modules right at your fingertips. Instantly call up the track view for recording or the MIDI editor for sequencing, then switch to the Matrix and lay down a pattern - all without surfing through complicated menus. There's no complicated setup to deal with, clunky user interface to master, or anything else to get between you and your music. Screensets let you instantly jump from one purpose-ready layout to another. Track in one layout, switch Screensets to lay down a MIDI-based synth part, and then switch Screensets again to go back for overdubs. It's that easy.
SONAR X1's new smart tools also ensure that your creative flow is never broken, allowing you to edit both audio and MIDI with a single tool. The Inspector module gives you complete drag-and-drop simplicity, allowing you to easily add drum patterns, instrument riffs, virtual instruments, FX chains, multitrack templates, and more to your session - all from a single consolidated browser window.
No matter what kind of studio you work in, SONAR X1 Producer will give your tracks that big-studio sound. ProChannel is the key to SONAR X1 Producer's genuine analog sound. It adds in-line analog-style signal processing to each of your mixer channels. There are three parts to the ProChannel: the EQ, the compressor, and the tube saturation engine. Each of these sections provide multiple models of real vintage gear and are completely tweakable. SONAR X1 Producer edition also gives you an exclusive suite of additional plug-ins, covering production, channel strips, and mastering processors. On top of that, you get a whole lineup of essential production tools.
AudioSnap 2.0 lets you quickly and easily correct the timing of your audio tracks, and Roland's V-Vocal pitch correction engine gives you everything from subtle pitch correction to extreme hard-tuning effects. A collection of 13 amazing T and S Series effects give you advanced mixing options above and beyond SONAR X1's core suite of 31 standard professional-level plug-ins. You also get 10 go-to virtual instruments, as well as four fantastic synths from RGC. When it comes to laying down tracks, SONAR X1's non-linear Matrix view lets you seamlessly incorporate MIDI and audio loops into your projects, and Step Sequencer 2.0 makes laying down beats and synth lines a blast. Add to that a whole list of bundled plug-ins, and it's easy to see why Cakewalk SONAR X1 Producer is the future of PC-based music production!
Cakewalk SONAR X1 Producer DAW Features at a Glance:- Unlimited Audio Tracks
- Unlimited MIDI Tracks
- 64-bit and Win 7 Ready
- Surround Mixing
- Matrix View non-linear audio and MIDI loop arranger
- Step Sequencer 2.0 MIDI programming tool
- AudioSnap 2.0 time correction built in
- Roland V-Vocal pitch correction built in
- ProChannel console style EQ and compression plus tube warmth effect built into every track
- 13 T and S Series Effects built in
- 10 Essential Instruments built in
- Mastering Effects, Channel Strip Effects, and 31 Essential Effects and processors built in
- Video Import/Export
- Dimension Pro virtual instrument included
- Rapture LE Synth virtual instrument included
- TruePianos Amber virtual instrument included
- Session Drummer 3 virtual instrument included
- Guitar Rig 4 LE virtual processor included
- RGC Synth Suite including 4 amazing soft synths included
- IK Multimedia Amplitube X-Gear (32-bit) virtual processor included
- Windows PC only
Developer(s) | Cakewalk |
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Stable release | |
Written in | C++ |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
Type | Digital audio workstation |
License | Proprietary |
Website | www.cakewalk.com/SONAR/ |
Sonar was a digital audio workstation created by Cakewalk.
- 1Notable features
- 1.2Included plugins[2]
- 1.2.1SONAR X1
- 1.2.2SONAR X2
- 1.2.3SONAR X3
- 1.2Included plugins[2]
Notable features[edit]
Sonar's features included:
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- Record and manipulate an amount of multitrack digital audio limited by hardware only
- Record and manipulate MIDI data
- Apply any DirectX special effects, such as reverberation and delay
- Automate the process of mixing audio
- Use virtual instruments, such as software: synthesizers, samplers, and drum machines
- Connect to other multimedia applications via Rewire
- Some versions included a 64-bit mastering suite
Video and audio formats[edit]
Sonar provided limited facilities for video, surround sound (5.1, 7.1), and supported .avi, .mpeg, .wmv and .mov files. Sonar had the ability to show video as thumbnails contained in a separate track.[1] With appropriate hardware, it was also possible to output the video to an external monitor screen via Firewire. Common SMPTE formats, frame sizes and frame rates were supported. It was possible to transfer audio loop files from other compatible software into Sonar and complete a final mixdown.
Various audio export options (including 64-bit masters) were AIFF, AU, CAF, FLAC, RAW, SD2, W64 (Sony Wave-64), and WAV (Microsoft).
Included plugins[2][edit]
SONAR X1[edit]
audio[edit]
- Alias Factor
- Analyst
- Boost 11
- Bit Meter
- Classic Phaser
- Channel Tools
- Compressor/Gate
- FX2 AmpSim
- FX2 TapeSim
- Guitar Rig 4 LE
- HF Exciter
- LP-64 Multiband
- LP-64 EQ
- Modfilter
- Multivoice Chorus/Flanger
- Para-Q
- Perfect Space Convolution Reverb
- Pitch
- PX-64 Percussion Strip
- Reverb
- Sonitus fx: Compressor
- Sonitus fx: Surround Compressor
- Sonitus fx: Delay
- Sonitus fx: EQ
- Sonitus fx: Gate
- Sonitus fx: Modulator
- Sonitus fx: Multiband
- Sonitus fx: Phase
- Sonitus fx: Reverb
- Sonitus fx: Surround
- Sonitus fx: Wahwah
- Tempo Delay
- TS-64 Transient Shaper
- TL-64 TubeLeveler
- V-Vocal (Part of main program installation)
- Vintage Channel
- VX-64 Vocal Strip
- DSP-FX: Chorus (32-bit only)
- DSP-FX: Delay (32-bit only)
- DSP-FX: EQ (32-bit only)
- DSP-FX: Flange (32-bit only)
- DSP-FX: Studioverb (32-bit only)
- CW-Reverb (Mono)
- CW-Delay (Mono)
- CW-EQ (Mono)
- FX1 Dynamics Processor
- Parametric EQ
- SpectraFX
- Stereo Delay (32-bit only)
- Stereo Reverb
midi[edit]
- MFX Arpeggiator
- MFX Change Velocity
- MFX Chord Analyzer
- MFX Echo/Delay
- MFX Event Filter
- MFX Quantize
- MFX Transpose
soft synths[edit]
- Beatscape 1.0.2 (Separate installation)
- Cakewalk Sound Center
- Cakewalk TTS-1
- Cyclone
- Dimension Pro 1.5 (Separate installation)
- Dreamstation DXi2 (32-bit only)
- Dropzone VSTi
- Pentagon 1
- PSYN II
- Rapture LE VSTi
- Roland Groovesynth
- RXP REX Player
- Session Drummer 3
- Square I
- Studio Instrument Suite
- SFZ Soundfont Player
- TruePianos
- z3ta+ VSTi
SONAR X2[edit]
The plugins in SONAR X1 were also available in SONAR X2, with the following changes
audio[edit]
Added
- Breverb SONAR
- R-Mix SONAR Edition
- TH2 Producer
Removed
- Guitar Rig 4 LE
soft synths[edit]
Added
- Rapture 1.22 VSTi
Removed
- Beatscape 1.0.2 (Separate installation)
- Rapture LE VSTi
SONAR X3[edit]
The plugins in SONAR X2 were also available in SONAR X3, with the following changes
audio[edit]
Added
- Blue Tubes FX Collection
- Melodyne Essential
- Tone2 BiFilter2
Removed
- Analyst
- Bit Meter
- FX2 AmpSim
- FX2 TapeSim
- Pitch
- Reverb
- V-Vocal
- Vintage Channel
- DSP-FX: Chorus (32-bit only)
- DSP-FX: Delay (32-bit only)
- DSP-FX: EQ (32-bit only)
- DSP-FX: Flange (32-bit only)
- DSP-FX: Studioverb (32-bit only)
- CW-Reverb (Mono)
- CW-Delay (Mono)
- CW-EQ (Mono)
- FX1 Dynamics Processor
- Parametric EQ
- R-Mix SONAR Edition
- SpectraFX
- Stereo Delay (32-bit only)
- Stereo Reverb
soft synths[edit]
Added
- Addictive Drums 2 (Separate installation)
- Strum Acoustic Session
- Lounge Lizard Session
Plugins available in X3 but no longer available in Sonar Platinum
- Dreamstation DXi2 (32-bit only)
- Pentagon 1
Starting with version 6, Sonar could take advantage of 64-bit internal processing, a 64-bit audio engine, and a 64-bit mixer on 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. Before introduction of Sonar X2 in October 2012, the entry-level Essential versions of Sonar (Sonar Home Studio and Sonar Essential) were 32-bit only. With the release of Sonar X2, the full program family became native 64-bit.
Starting with Sonar Platinum (January 2016), releases moved to a monthly cycle, with new features and demo products introduced with each update.
Discontinuation and Relaunch[edit]
On November 17, 2017, Gibson announced[3] that it was ceasing active development and production of Cakewalk branded products, including all versions of SONAR. After 30 years, Cakewalk, Inc. ceased operation, with only the company's web forum and license authorization servers still being kept functional.
On February 23, 2018, Singapore-based BandLab Technologies announced its purchase of some of Cakewalk, Inc.’s assets and all of its intellectual property[4]. BandLab's stated goal was continued development of the former company's flagship product, SONAR (now renamed Cakewalk by BandLab) as part of its portfolio of freeware digital audio workstation software.
See also[edit]
- POW-R dithering algorithms
References[edit]
- ^'Sonar Video Support'. Sound on Sound. 2007. Retrieved 21 May 2007.
- ^'From X1 to Platinum : Plugins & Soft Synths : A Comprehensive List'. Cakewalk Forums. 28 May 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^http://www.cakewalk.com/Gibson-Announcement
- ^https://blog.bandlab.com/cakewalk-press-release/ BandLab Technologies Announces Acquisition of Cakewalk Inc. Assets retrieved 23 February 2018