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What's New in SONAR 8.5Cakewalk SONAR 8.5: Order New Units and Upgrades HereSession Drummer 3 (Producer Exclusive)Session Drummer 3 - Session Drummer has been a mainstay in SONAR for easy and fast creation of realistic sounding drum tracks. Now, Session Drummer 3 hits the stage with an all new look, sporting a sleek photorealistic 3D drum kit, along with routing improvements, plus 12 new kits and over 700 new patterns for additional high quality drums sounds and grooves. Features:
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PX-64 Percussion Strip (Producer Exclusive)PX-64 Percussion Strip - is a seven-stage processor designed
specifically for shaping drum and percussion sounds. Like the VX-64 Vocal Strip,
the PX-64 Percussion Strip employs Cakewalk’s exclusive tube saturation
algorithms with unique filtering and auto-leveling circuitry technologies.
Combining transient shaping, compression, expansion, equalization, delay, and
tube saturation in one convenient plug-in, the PX-64 Percussion Strip
includes 70 go-to presets along with click & drag reordering of
processing stage routing, making it fast and easy to enhance any drum or
percussion track in seconds.
VX-64 Vocal Strip (Producer Exclusive)VX-64 Vocal Strip - is a seven-stage processor designed for
sculpting incredible sounding vocal tracks. Each of the VX-64's stages have been
fine-tuned to be vocal-specific, taking the work out of loading an entire chain
of vocal processors. The VX-64 features a new Cakewalk technology that employs
phase-coherent, multi-band saturation to avoid unwanted distortion; unique
filtering to avoid artifacts at extreme high and low frequencies; and an
auto-leveling circuit that prevents the tube saturation from sounding too harsh
when high gain transients are processed by it. VX-64 also employs a new
de-essing algorithm designed with Cakewalk's LP-64 linear phase effect filtering
technology to remove sibilance without creating any frequency smearing.
AudioSnap 2.0AudioSnap 2.0 - The original AudioSnap provided powerful, non-destructive, multi-track control over audio timing. AudioSnap 2.0 provides a refreshing new look and refinements to its core controls, significantly improving workflow. New features include a simplified UI, dedicated transient tool, proportional stretching mode, and multi-track audio stretch and quantization that maintains accurate phase relationships. Proportional stretching can be used both to correct unwanted timing fluctuations and provide gradual timing adjustments across several transients. In addition, rendered audio fidelity is greatly improved using the new Radius Mix Advance Mode. New in AudioSnap 2:
Step Sequencer 2.0Step Sequencer 2.0 - SONAR’s Step Sequencer view is known
for being the most advanced and comprehensive available in any DAW today.
Step Sequencer 2.0 takes this power to a new level with increased depth of
control over your sequences. Step Sequencer 2.0 was built with 3 goals in mind:
to simplify the interface for an elegant and musical workflow, to design a set
of useful and powerful per-lane controls, and to provide finer control over
per-step adjustments.
ArpeggiatorIntegrated Arpeggiator - Each MIDI and Instrument track in SONAR now has a built-in Arpeggiator which allows you to turn even the simplest chord progression into exciting new sound textures. The SONAR Arpeggiator is a perfect tool for adding variety to any Instrument or MIDI track that repeats a number of times in a song, or for creating complimentary parts using other instrument sounds that follow your chord progression. The SONAR Arpeggiator includes hundreds of presets, patterns, and classic algorithms, and provides not only powerful controls over the rate, octave range, latch, swing, flam, velocity, duration, and pitch offset of the arpeggiation, but also control over mix, channel input, and shape. Roland V-Vocal (New in SONAR 8.5 Studio)Roland V-Vocal editor lets you achieve perfect vocals tracks and is integrated right inside SONAR. It includes pitch correction, phrasing, dynamics, vibrato, and Pitch to MIDI conversion.
Media BrowserMedia Browser - SONAR’s Loop Explorer View has been updated and expanded. In its new form, Media Browser is now SONAR’s hub for content. Audio Groove Clips, Step Sequencer Patterns, REX Loops and Project5 MIDI PTN files can all be previewed in Media Browser and easily dragged into any track. As well, video files can be viewed in Media Browser and easily dragged into a Video Thumbnail Track. Users’ content folders can be stored and recalled as handy Media Browser presets. SONAR 8.5 ships with out-of-the-box presets that point directly to Beatscape REX Loops, Session Drummer 3 MIDI Drum Loops, Step Sequencer Patterns, RXP REX Loops, PTN MIDI Patterns, and MIDI Groove Clips. Engine Optimizations and leading technology innovationsEngine Work - Audio interfaces, MIDI interfaces and control surfaces can now be disconnected and reconnected again or “hotswapped” while SONAR is running without the need to restart SONAR. This is particularly useful for plugging in a new MIDI controller while inspired to lay down a new part, or in the event an audio interface needs to be power-cycled. SONAR 8.5 also includes optimizations and stability improvements for recording audio, and while looping. Open Support - Cakewalk has been, and will continue to be, a proponent of open standards in software and hardware. SONAR 8.5 brings a variety of compatibility improvements for VST plug-ins, as well as for Cakewalk’s BitBridge technology, which allows for access to classic 32-bit “x86” VST plug-ins in a 64-bit “x64” environment. SONAR Producer customers can take advantage of the new BitBridge XR, which automatically provides up to 32 BitBridge servers, each capable of using up to 4GB of RAM, for a total of 128GB of RAM access from 32-bit plug-ins! SONAR also now provides native REX loop support, via the Track View, updated Media Browser, and new Matrix View. Windows 7 Ready - Cakewalk was a finalist in Microsoft’s 2009 Partner of the Year Awards, and as you would expect from the industry-leading Windows DAW, SONAR 8.5 is ready for Windows 7 right from the get-go. Cakewalk has been testing SONAR from early Windows 7 Betas right through to the latest Release Candidates, and we are pleased to recommended Windows 7 as a platform for SONAR 8.5. Additionally, SONAR 8.5 was evaluated at an independent Microsoft application compatibility lab and officially passed the rigorous Win7 compatibility testing. Matrix View (Producer Exclusive) Please note: The new Matrix feature in SONAR 8.5 is not accessible. We will continue to consult with the developers of SONAR on ways they might be able to make it a feature that JAWS can access. In its present form, access is not possible.Other new featuresDuring SONAR 8.5 development, Cakewalk engineers have added what we are calling a collection of “featurettes” that we are sure SONAR users will appreciate, since many of them came directly from user feedback, including:
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