Cakewalk SONAR 5 Studio Edition (Windows)

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 your needs.

Designed for project studios and aspiring professionals, SONAR 5 Studio Edition is built upon the same core engine and feature set of SONAR 5 Producer Edition offering a complete solution for recording, arranging, editing, and mixing your audio productions—all in a tightly integrated workspace.

The Musician's Choice: SONAR 5 offers all the world-class instruments, effects, and creative technologies you need to bring your inspiration to life.

• Record and edit unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI using effects on input - Sonitus:fx Suite and more
• Includes several responsive virtual instruments: synths with genuine Roland® sounds; SoundFont and groove samplers; and more
• Recall every element of a sound: mix, effect, and instrument settings with one click using Track Templates
• Loop record live audio and MIDI to track layers, then use enhanced comping tools to assemble the perfect take
• Create backing tracks and remixes fast using MIDI groove clips and ACID™-format loops with per slice control of pitch, gain, and pan
• Expand your sounds and effects with native support for VST and DirectX plug-ins, and ReWire clients like Project5 and Reason
• Use any Windows-compatible WDM or ASIO audio interface (including Pro Tools | HD or M-Box), integrate hardware-based MIDI devices and control surfaces from Roland, Tascam, Mackie, and others

Features Include:

• Unlimited tracks of Audio and MIDI
• ACID™ loop and MIDI Groove Clip support
• Native DirectX, DXi, VST, VSTi, MFX and ReWire support
• Double precision floating point engine
• 32 and 64-bit applications
• Track Folders
• Freeze (tracks, FXs and synths)
• Clip-based effects and editing
• Integrated inline MIDI and audio editing
• Roland® GrooveSynth™
• TTS-1™ GM2 synth
• Cyclone™ groove sampler
• SFZ SoundFont sampler
• Sonitus:fx Suite
• Lexicon® Pantheon™ Reverb

System Requirements: Minimum

• 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

System Requirements: Recommended

• 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

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.

New customers purchasing SONAR 5 will be required to register the product within 30-days of installation for continued use.

Note: This item is non-returnable if opened.

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