Cakewalk Sonar 5.0 Producer Edition (1 dvd)

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.

Waves Diamond Bundle 5.2

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.

Propellerhead Reason 4.0 (1 dvd)

Version 5 adds an arsenal of responsive instruments, more effects, and powerful editing tools including Roland V-Vocal VariPhrase technology. These features are complemented by a double precision floating point engine that delivers dramatic increases in dynamic range. SONAR pristine 64-bit audio engine, seamless and accessible even on 32-bit computers, sets new standards for digital mixing. In addition, SONAR 5 introduces ground-breaking advances in RAM and native processing power on systems running Windows XP x64 Edition.

Adobe Audition 3.0

Key features

NEW SYN 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 erfect Space Convolution Reverb

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

Steinberg Cubase SX 3.0 (1 dvd)

NEW pdated MIDI FX plug-ins

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

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

Korg Legacy Collection 1.1.10

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

NEW itBridge enables 32-bit VST effects and instruments in SONAR 64-bit environment

NEW emove DC offset during recording

Dynamic Console View with per-channel EQ and assignable FX controls

Sibelius 5.0 for Mac (1 dvd)

Freeze for tracks, effects, and synths nloads plug-ins, frees RAM, frozen audio is editable, Quick Unfreeze allows for toggling, more

SurroundBridge use your favorite stereo effect plug-ins in surround

NEW dvanced step recording

Steinberg Groove Agent for Mac

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 ideo output to 1394 FireWire devices for high quality viewing with lower CPU and disk usage

Antares AVOX Bundle VST RTAS 1.06

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

Producer's Edge

With SONAR 5 you get a comprehensive set of editing, mixing, and delivery options in one integrated environment.

Get higher-quality mixes with SONAR cutting edge 64-bit double precision floating point engine with full delay compensation

Keep pristine audio quality with support for 32-bit float files and up to 500 kHz sampling rates

Accomplish powerful vocal edits including pitch correction, phrasing adjustments, harmonization, and much more with V-Vocal Flexible mixing with 30+ surround formats, effects, on-the-fly bussing, vector envelopes, pan laws, configurable meter ballistics, more

Configure SONAR the way you like with custom layouts, color schemes, even use keystrokes from other audio applications

Deliver projects in virtually any format, bit-depth, or sampling rate: POW-r dithering; Windowed Sync sample rate conversion; external command line encoder support; OMFI and Broadcast WAV for collaboration with Pro Tools; QuickTime; MP3*; more

Prosoniq MPEX time scaling superior time scaling algorithm that is great for matching audio to video or for loop/sample authoring

SONAR 5 includes a 32-bit version and the first native 64-bit digital audio workstation. 64-bit** version experiences 20-30% processing performance gains and can access 128 GB of physical RAM

SONAR 5 x64 Edition

SONAR 5 is the first native 64-bit digital audio workstation on the market. SONAR 5 ships as both a 32-bit and 64-bit application, and the 64-bit double precision floating point engine is accessible in both applications. SONAR 5 sees a 20-30% performance gain when installed in a 64-bit PC using Intel EM64T and AMD64 processor and Windows XP x64 Edition. In addition, Intel EM64T and AMD64 based systems can access up to 128 GB of RAM that opens up new worlds when using samplers and audio loops.

BitBridge A primary barrier to making the leap to the 64-bit environment has been the lack of plug-ins available. SONAR 5 BitBridge sweeps aside any resistance by enabling the use of 32-bit VST effects and instruments in SONAR 64-bit environment. BitBridge technology extends the viability and use of your favorite VST plug-ins; ensures future compatibility of freeware, even for the most obscure, independently developed shareware plug-ins.

Producer Edition Exclusives

Roland V-Vocal vocal processor
PSYN II subtractive synth
Pentagon I analog synth
RXP REX Player groove box
Perfect Space Convolution Reverb
Lexicon Pantheon Stereo & Surround Reverbs
Sonitus Surround Compressor
Multi-format surround mixing
SurroundBridge Per-channel EQ
Assignable FX controls
POW-r dithering
MPEX 3 time scaling
Video thumbnail track

System Requirements Minimum Recommended

Operating System Windows XP Windows XP/x64*

Processor Speed Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz+ AMD Athlon XP 1500+ AMD Athlon 64 2800+

RAM 128 MB 512 MB

Hard Disk Space 100 MB Multiple GBs

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

Graphics 1024 X 768, 16-bit color 1280 X 960, 24-bit color or higher

MIDI Interface Windows compatible Windows compatible

Sound Card Windows compatible WDM or ASIO compatible

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

QuickTime support requires QuickTime 6 or higher.

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