| SONAR 8.5 Producer gives you what you need for recording, composing, editing, mixing, and mastering. 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 8.5 Producer delivers the go-to production tools you want with the best collection of virtual instruments, mixing, and mastering effects found in any DAW.
With version 8.5, SONAR continues to innovate on all fronts. New beat creating and arrangement tools, a new drum instrument loaded with stellar kits, enhanced audio quantizing, new multi-stage effect plug-ins, and more combine together to make SONAR the most complete, most professional, and best sounding DAW on any platform.
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SONAR 8.5 is the digital audio workstation that offers one-of-a-kind music creation tools to help you right from the start of the production process. Whether you are searching for new ideas or looking to add musical parts to existing songs, SONAR 8 can help you breakthrough those creative blocks. NEW in 8.5: Session Drummer 3 - Session Drummer has been a mainstay in SONAR for easy and fast creation of realistic sounding drum tracks. Now, Session Drummer 3 hits the stage with an all new look, sporting a sleek photorealistic 3D drum kit, along with routing improvements, plus 12 new kits and over 700 new patterns for additional high quality drums sounds and grooves. Features: - Photorealistic drum kit page to load kits, programs, patterns, and tweak mappings.
- Dedicated Mixer page for fine tuning kits (12 channels each) with control over volume, pan, width, and tuning controls.
- Mix and match kit components: all kit pieces are broken down into individual components for flexibility in creating your drum sounds. Ships with over 200 different drum sounds across 20+ kits.
- Drag-and-drop drum components: build kits by dragging any WAV or OGG file from the desktop onto a pad.
- Comprehensive collection of presets and MIDI-based loop files to provide a creative jump-start for your drum tracks.
- Flexible MIDI pattern playback.
- 12 pads/12 outputs.
Content: - 10 high-quality kits from the renowned content provider Sonic Reality, ready to play in any track along with 1 coupon for a free download of one Ocean Way Drums kit.
- 2 polished kits from Steven Slate Drums, fine tuned and tweaked to sound amazing in any mix.
- Genre-defining original samples of the classic Roland TR-707, TR-727, TR-808, and TR-909 drum synthesizers, along with kits from Sequential Circuits Drumtraks and Linn Electronics LinnDrum.
- 2 Organic kits from Smart Loops.
- Over 700 new MIDI patterns from Steven Slate Drums, Groove Monkee, and Smart Loops.
- Over 2.5 GBof drum sample content in all.
Operating System* Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP2 (32 and 64-bit), or Windows 7 (32 and 64-bit)
Processor Speed Minimum:
Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz [EMT64] or AMD Athlon XP 2800+ or higher
Recommended:
Intel Core 2 Quad Core Q8400 Yorkfield 2.66GHz or AMD Phenom Quad Core 9750 2.4GHz or higherMinimum:
1 GB
Recommended:
4 GB GraphicsMinimum:
1024 x 768, 16-bit color
Recommended:
1280 x 960, 24-bit color or higher
Hard Disk Space Minimum:
200 MB (Minimal Installation) or higher
Recommended:
50 GB (Full Installation) or higher Disk TypeMinimum:
Any
Recommended:
EIDE / Ultra DMA (7200 RPM) or SATA Interface**
Windows-compatible Audio Interface***
Windows-compatible Media Drive****
Dual Layer DVD-ROM, DVD+/- R, OR DVD+/-RW for installation/ CD-R OR CD-RW capability required for CD audio disc burning Web Server Access***** Minimum:
Any Recommended:
Available web server space with FTP access privileges *SONAR does not officially support Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP x64 or pre-release (RTM) versions of Windows7
**Required to connect external MIDI devices
***Required for audio playback. Seewww.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
*****Cakewalk Publisher requires you to have available web server space with FTP access privileges. Cakewalk SONAR 8.5 Studio |
