With Cakewalk's acquisition of RGC:audio in 2005, synth-development legend RenéCeballos joined the Cakewalk development team. As a result of our continued collaboration and development, SONAR 7 now offers one of the most comprehensive and best sounding instrument collections available today. With the new instruments in SONAR 7 Studio Edition you get hundreds of new instrument sounds and 1 GB of sample content.
New instruments for SONAR 7 Studio Edition include:
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Session Drummer 2 — formerly a SONAR Producer Edition exclusive, Session Drummer 2 is now included in SONAR Studio Edition.Session Drummer 2 was designed from the ground up to provide SONAR users with the fastest and most fun way to create realistic and vital drum tracks. Session Drummer 2 includes real multi-sampled drum kits paired with professionally recorded drum patterns. Build an accompaniment by simply loading a drum kit and dragging and dropping patterns into your project. Prefer a more hands on approach? Play patterns or individual drums from any MIDI controller to perform your own drum tracks. You can even build a custom drum kit by choosing individual components (including WAV, AIFF, SFZ, or OGG format samples) and adjusting volume, pan, width, and tuning on each pad.
Dimension LE — is a special version of the acclaimed Dimension Pro instrument from Cakewalk. Dimension LE features over 400 sound programs, ranging from real bass, organ and electric piano samples to cutting-edge synth sounds and rhythmic grooves. In addition, you get the special edition of the Garritan Pocket Orchestra, expressively programmed for Dimension LE, featuring orchestral instrument libraries of unrivaled quality that include strings, brass, woodwinds, keyboards, and percussion sounds. Dimension LE is powered by Cakewalk's Expression Engine providing several types of synthesis capabilities including multi-sample rendering, wavetable synthesis, waveguide
synthesis, and, REX playback and manipulation.
Rapture LE — this special version of the award winning Rapture synthesizer from Cakewalk makes its debut in SONAR 7. It includes over 200 programs and hundreds of oscillator shapes. Capable of producing rich, hypnotic, and rhythmic basses, leads, and pads, Rapture LE is perfect for performing and designing the modern synthesized sounds igniting today's pop, dance, and electronic music.
DropZone — is a drag & drop sampler and REX loop Editor. Just drop in a sample and the loop points and slices are visually displayed then you can quickly start manipulating and triggering slices or the entire loop. It has a keyboard display to show sample key mapping; 300MB of samples including pads & atmospheres, basses, pianos, drum kits; Dance & Hip Hop REX loops, and hundreds of wavetables.
