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Cakewalk Sonar 7 Producer Edition £349
Sonar remains - at least in its Producer Edition guise - perhaps the single most comprehensive Windows production suite money can buy.
The MusicRadar Team, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 2:41 pm UTC
Manufacturer's description
SONAR 7 Producer Edition places no limits on your track count, bus routing, effect or instrument inserts, and includes an ample array of audio effects, virtual instruments, and innovative technologies to power your productions. These include the precision LP-64 EQ? & LP-64 Multiband? linear phase mastering plug-ins, Z3TA+? Waveshaping Synthesizer, Dimension? LE and Rapture? LE, Active Controller Technology?, AudioSnap?, and much more. These are complemented by two Roland® virtual instruments and the V-Vocal? processor, the Lexicon Pantheon Reverb, Perfect Space Convolution Reverb powered by Voxengo, VC-64 Vintage Channel? powered by Kjaerhus Audio, AudioSnap? rendering with iZotope Radius, POW-r dithering, thousands of instrument sounds, over a gigabyte of sample content, and much more.
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User comments (2)
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I upgraded from Sonar 5 Studio Edition and am delighted with 7PE. The quality and intuitiveness of the GUI make it great to use and the sheer number of included plugins (effects and intstruments) make it very good value.
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All singing, all dancing Windows-based DAW with tons of features and lots of included plugin synths and effects (with a few noteables like z3ta+ and Roland's V-Vocal vocal processing). No complaints from me. Way more comfortable GUI than Cubase 4 (which i also own).
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Pros
Hugely comprehensive. Sidechain support. Full version of Z3TA+ in the box! Superb step sequencer. MIDI refinements galore. V-Vocal now converts pitch to MIDI.
Cons
V-Vocal still only works 'offline'.
Verdict
A fantastic update that sees Sonar both overtaking the competition and innovating in several areas. It might just be the best PC DAW of its generation.
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Sonar 7 Producer Edition
- Price:
- £349
- Features:
- Unlimited audio tracks. Integrated Step Sequencer. Smart MIDI Tools, Real-time Drag-Quantize, Multilane controller editing in Piano Roll view, Enhanced MIDI editing and more.
- Min Processor Speed (GHz) (GHz):
- 1.3
- Platform:
- PC
- Ram Required (MB) (MB):
- 256
- Required Hard Disk Space (MB) (MB):
- 100
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luteman
Thu 28 Aug 2008, 12:58 pm UTC
User rating 5 of 5