New Product: Cakewalk Sonar 7 for Windows
Nov 12, 2007 7:52 PM Asher Fulero (Writer)
Cakewalk beefed up Sonar 7
(Producer Edition $619, Studio Edition $369; www.cakewalk.com)—already one of
the most popular Windows-based DAWs—in several ways, such as adding a powerful
new step sequencer that offers odd time signatures, drum and MIDI mapping for
triggering different sounds simultaneously, a global portamento and
articulation switch and other unique traits. Smart new MIDI features include
MIDI Magnifier, MIDI Colorizer, MIDI Meters, Drag Quantize and splitting,
gluing and muting MIDI notes. New instruments and effects include the Z3TA+
waveshaping synthesizer, LE versions of Cakewalk's Dimension and Rapture, the new
LP-64 Linear Phase Multiband Mastering Comp/Limiter and LP-64 Linear Phase EQ,
and many of the older plug-ins have a new internal sidechaining system. Now you
can right-click on the cursor to import audio or MIDI on the spot, and Sonar 7
now supports WAV files larger than 2 GB as well a Sony Wave-64, AIFF, CAF, FLAC
and SDII file types. Additional new features include drag-and-drop EQ settings,
automatic plug-in delay compensation, shortcuts, clip-based SMPTE time stamping
and Roland V-Vocal technology with pitch-to-MIDI conversion. Also, the bundled
Cakewalk Publisher 2.0 lets you attach URLs and album art to your mixdowns and
to create customized Web audio players and XML code for copy/pasting right into
your Website or MySpace page.
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