From the Budapest Opera House to last-minute post-shower edits, SONAR delivers for Justin Lassen

Justin Lassen Crosses Boundaries with SONAR 5, Project5 and Cakewalk Instruments

If you’ve heard the demo project “Land of Millions and Billions” from SONAR 5, you’re already familiar with the talents of international symphonist, composer and remix artist Justin Lassen. Justin is a musical shape-shifter, moving with ease between orchestral composition, brooding soundscapes and razor-sharp techno and electro sounds. Of late, Justin has been splitting his time between diverse projects including the much anticipated follow-up to his 2003 dark chamber symphony And now we see but through a glass darkly, video game soundtracks for RoboBlitz and the upcoming Hexen: Edge of Chaos, and remixes for the likes of Healer, Avril Lavigne, and Muse.

Justin was also recently tapped to create tradeshow and TV commercial soundtracks for Shuttle Inc., creators of the XPC small form factor PC, a project in which he used SONAR 5 Producer Edition, Project5, Z3TA+, and Dimension Pro.

“I had a lot of fun on that particular project because I got to use SONAR 5, Project5, Dimension Pro and Z3TA+ in a real-world application, so it was a fun chance to really just play with the software, plugins, and style of composing,” Justin says. “The project went great and they were really impressed with the production and sound quality of it all.”

Click here to hear sound clips from Justin’s Shuttle project.

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Justin has also been doing some serious “commuting” for work, and is finding freedom using Cakewalk programs on an Intel Centrino-based Aviator MX6 Turbo laptop by Hypersonic PC Systems, together with his Behringer FCA202 sound I/O FireWire interface.

"SONAR handles everything I need it to handle no matter if I'm recording in a symphonic concert hall or an old archaic cathedral ... something I never thought possible on a laptop" says Lassen.

“I'm still in London, England, but I've also been flying back and fourth to Budapest, Hungary to work on some of my more symphonic compositions, and it's been working lovely on my laptop for all of this work, which is something that blows my mind. I don't feel trapped to a desktop PC anymore.”

Justin is featured in EQ Magazine’s Online Edition this month. Check it out here! He is also named on the cover of the print edition, and you can read more about his current projects on his web site www.empireofmodernthought.com.