If you've considered switching to SONAR 7 from another DAW platform, you're in good company. With unique features, amazing sound quality and top shelf plug-ins, SONAR 7 is hard to ignore, and we hear from customers daily who are interested in finding out how SONAR 7 can make a difference in their studios.
The new feature set of SONAR 7 addresses numerous feature requests of Cubase and Pro Tools customers who have been interested in switching to SONAR. In addition, now that SONAR 7 runs on Intel-Macs with Bootcamp, we have seen a surge of Mac-only customers interested in adding SONAR 7 to their studio. To facilitate making the switch, Cakewalk is announcing special "crossgrade" pricing on SONAR 7.
Cakewalk will honor crossgrade pricing for all Cubase and Nuendo customers from all versions of Steinberg programs, including Cubase 4, LE, SL, SX, and older Cubase titles on all platforms. In addition, owners of Ableton Live; Apple Logic; Magix Samplitude; MOTU Digital Performer; Pro Tools LE, M-Powered, and |HD; SONY ACID Pro and Vegas will be also able to take advantage of this special pricing.
If you're ready to step up to SONAR 7, visit these retailers today to receive special competitive upgrade pricing. Eligible customers can buy SONAR 7 Producer Edition for a special price.
Eligible European customers can purchase their crossgrade through many European dealers. The SONAR 7 Producer Edition crossgrade has an RRP of €279 or £199 inc. VAT; the SONAR 7 Studio Edition crossgrade has an RRP of €189 or £129 inc. VAT.
SONAR is the first DAW to offer the sonic clarity of 64-bit double precision floating point mixing. SONAR's end-to-end 64-bit mix engine gives you cleaner, fuller sounding mixes by increasing footroom and passing 64-bit information to and from plug-ins for maximum clarity. Unlike some other systems, SONAR does not dither your audio every time it goes in and out of plug-ins which is a source of audio degradation. And best of all, this technology even works on 32-bit computers.
2. Future Proof
You can feel confident that you'll never be left behind, no matter how technology changes. Cakewalk has been first to innovate on Windows Vista, x64 processing, multi-core and multi-processor support, and 64-bit double precision audio quality. SONAR incorporates it seamlessly so all you need to think about is making music.
3. More Power
SONAR takes full advantage of the power of your machine; it's a powerhouse on today's multi-core PCs and Intel-based Macs (using Bootcamp). SONAR has carefully designed support for multi-core and multiprocessor computers, letting you get the full benefit of dual, quad, or dual quad-core machines. SONAR places no limits on features like track count, effect and instrument inserts letting you truly harness the power of your PC. Take advantage of huge performance gains and increased RAM on Windows Vista x64 systems.
4. Amazing Effects
Warm up vocals, drums and more with VC-64 Vintage Channel powered by Kjaerhus Audio. Recreate the sounds of real acoustic spaces and beyond with Perfect Space Convolution Reverb—or get classic digital reverbs with Lexicon Pantheon. And, of course, you can use all of your favorite VST and DirectX plug-ins in SONAR.
5. Incredible Instruments
SONAR includes an awesome array of virtual instruments providing just about any sound imaginable. And the included instruments in SONAR 7 sound great. Many of SONAR's instruments were created by renowned synth architect René Ceballos and feature sound programs by some of the best designers in the industry. New instruments for version 7 include: Z3TA+ 1.5 waveshaping synthesizer, Dimension LE (featuring Garritan Pocket Orchestra), Rapture LE, and DropZone Sample player/synth.
6. Synth Rack
SONAR not only includes great instruments and support for VSTi, ReWire and DXi plug-ins, it makes managing, automating and controlling all of your synths simple. SONAR 7's synth rack provides grouping, assignable controls, automation features and more.
7. Sophisticated Mixing
Mix projects with complete flexibility using SONAR's configurable console view, Universal Bus Architecture, configurable metering with real-world ballistics, and unlimited tracks, busses, sends and inserts. Drag and drop effects and eq setting from channel to channel. Achieve new levels of mix sophistication with internal sidechaining for the Sonitus:fx Gate, Sonitus:fx Compressor, VC64 Vintage Channel and 3rd party multi-input VSTs. SONAR has always had delay compensation for internal effects, but now you can patch inserts for outboard hardware effects, and mix through them with automatic delay compensation.
8. Easy Collaboration
SONAR makes it easy to collaborate with other studios or to bring in projects from other applications, even on the mac with support for multiple file formats including OMFI, Broadcast WAV, Sound Designer II, AIF, CAF, and many others.
9. Polished masters
Create polished final mixes with the SONAR 7's new linear phase LP-64 Multiband and LP-64 EQ mastering effects and Boost 11 Peak Limiter. And with SONAR's integrated POW-r Dithering and Windowed Sync sample rate conversion, your mix will maintain its maximum fidelity when downsampling or converting from SONAR's native 64-bit audio quality down to 16 or 24 bit-audio.
10. Smart MIDI Tools
Smart MIDI Tools revolutionizes SONAR's MIDI editing by providing you with three tools which can each be configured to perform multiple operations to suit your editing style. Create your own Smart MIDI Tool presets from functions such as slip-editing transposition, split, glue, event mute, and drag quantize; or select presets that match MIDI operations in other applications such as Logic, Cubase, and Digital Performer.
11. Integrated Step Sequencing
Stop using other applications to program beats or step sequenced lines. SONAR 7's new dedicated Step Sequencer view provides the most innovative step sequencer feature set available in any comprehensive DAW today.
12. Take Control of Your Controller
SONAR 7 takes the mystery out of setting up your MIDI controllers and control surfaces. Active Controller Technology (ACT) automatically remaps your controls to your mix, instruments and effects making it easier than ever to get tactile control of your projects.
13. Powerful Vocal Editing
Perfect vocal performances with the power of Roland V-Vocal Variphrase Processor. V-Vocal can automatically lock vocals into key, and allows you to subtly adjust vibrato, phrasing, dynamics and more. Now in Version 7 V-Vocal has been updated with pitch to MIDI conversion.
14. The Best Audio Timing Tools
Use AudioSnap to quantize multiple tracks of audio to the same rhythm, lock the bass player into the drummer's groove, have all of your audio tracks follow tempo changes, and more. All with the amazing quality of iZotope Radius timestretching.
15. Crash Recovery & File Recovery
Have you ever loaded a poorly written plug-in that has crashed your DAW, causing you to lose important work? SONAR 7's exclusive crash recovery allows you to save your work even in the event of a crash. In addition, automatic file versioning makes it easy to revert to earlier copies of your projects if needed. Now in version 7 SONAR adds File Recovery Mode, which provides an aggressive data recovery mechanism when a damaged project file is detected.
16. Visual Feedback
SONAR gives you unprecedented visual feedback on your mixes. SONAR 7 includes realtime waveform preview of busses and virtual instruments, meters that can emulate the real world characteristics of the best consoles, a unique spectrum analyzer and accurate audio waveform display at any zoom resolution. New display features for Version 7 include MIDI Magnifier an innovation which allows you to work on MIDI in place, even when zoomed out, Velocity coloring, and MIDI meters.
17. Speedy Delivery
Want to export each track of your project to a separate audio file in one click? How about deliver a surround mix in multiple formats in minutes? ProTools users—we bet you'd really like to render audio faster than in real time. SONAR 7 handles these scenarios with ease. You can also save presets of your common export settings to save time when rendering.
18. Make it Your Own
SONAR gives you the freedom to configure your studio to meet your unique needs. It's compatible with your choice of WDM or ASIO hardware from the stock sound card that ships with your PC all the way up to an SSL AWS 900+ console. When you switch to SONAR you can load presets of keystrokes from your favorite applications or you can make your own. It features the best support for control surfaces and MIDI controllers, and you can expand your creative abilities with DSP cards, and third party VST, DirectX, and ReWire effects and instruments. Plus you can customize menus, toolbars, layouts, channel presets, track icons, color schemes, and more just the way you want it.
19. The Best User Experience
SONAR is developed by musicians who listen, understand, and respond to the discerning needs of our customers, including Grammy and Emmy winning producers, engineers, and composers. When you choose SONAR, you are getting a complete package that includes regular updates, affordably priced upgrades, an unbeatable user forum, and the backing of world class customer service and support that has made Cakewalk the musician's favorite for over 20 years.
20. We Trust You
SONAR uses non-intrusive copy protection, so you'll never have to worry about a dongle.
Cakewalk will honor crossgrade pricing for all Cubase and Nuendo customers from all versions of Steinberg programs, including Cubase 4, LE, SL, SX, and older Cubase titles on all platforms. In addition, owners of Ableton Live; Apple Logic; Magix Samplitude; MOTU Digital Performer; Pro Tools LE, M-Powered, and |HD; SONY ACID Pro and Vegas will be also able to take advantage of this special pricing.
If you're ready to step up to SONAR 7, visit these retailers today to receive special competitive upgrade pricing. Eligible customers can buy SONAR 7 Producer Edition for only $399* or SONAR 7 Studio Edition for just $199*.
Eligible European customers can purchase their crossgrade through many European dealers. The SONAR 7 Producer Edition crossgrade has an RRP of €279 or £199 inc. VAT; the SONAR 7 Studio Edition crossgrade has an RRP of €189 or £129 inc. VAT.
