SONAR Producer Edition has a well-earned reputation for delivering powerful production tools in a fast, streamlined user interface. With SONAR 5, Cakewalk has added powerful new recording, editing, comping and navigation tools that optimise workflow for today's professional. In addition, version 5 combines innovative surround and AV capabilities along with precise engineering tools. SONAR 5 Producer Edition is the perfect solution for composing, recording, editing, mixing, and remixing music productions; and for providing voice over, score, sound design and post audio for film, TV, video, commercials, and games.
Features include:
* Multi-format surround mixing and editing with over 30 configurations supported (5.1, 7.1, LCRS, etc.).
* Intuitive surround panner: focus, width, angle, front/rear balance controls, LFE send; speaker muting & soloing; control surface/joystick support.
* Lexicon Pantheon Surround Reverb - get the pristine sound of classic Lexicon Reverbs - for the first time ever in multi-channel environments up to 8.1. Stereo version of Lexicon Pantheon also included.
* Sonitus Surround Compressor - a professional, nine-channel compressor specifically designed for surround applications.
* SurroundBridge - use stereo plug-ins in multi-channel environments. Patches and links plug-ins across all channels on a surround bus allowing for control from a single UI. Unlink for different settings on different channels.
* Sonitus:fx Suite - critically acclaimed automatable effects: Compressor, Delay, Gate, Modulator, Multiband Compressor, Parametric EQ, Phase, Reverb, Surround, Wah wah.
* Video Thumbnail track - makes scoring to video even easier, perfectly align audio with on-screen action, auto-snap to frame, more.
* POW-r Dithering - unique, patent pending algorithms for converting 20, 24, and 32 bit audio to CD standard 16-bit format, while retaining dynamic efficiency and very low noise, optimised for use with all sample rates.
* Prosoniq MPEX time scaling - great for matching audio to video or for loop/sample authoring.
* Dynamic Console with per-channel EQ and assignable FX controls - access effect and EQ setting directly from the Console view without opening plug-in windows.
roducer Edition Exclusives
Roland« V-VocalÖ vocal processor
PSYNÖ II subtractive synth
PentagonÖ I analog synth
RXPÖ REX Player groove box
Perfect SpaceÖ Convolution Reverb
Lexicon« PantheonÖ Stereo & Surround Reverbs
Sonitus Surround Compressor
Multi-format surround mixing
SurroundBridgeÖ
Per-channel EQ
Assignable FX controls
POW-r dithering
MPEX 3 time scaling
Video thumbnail track
System Requirements Minimum Recommended
Operating System Windows XP Windows XP/x64*
Processor Speed Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 1500
RAM 128 MB
Hard Disk Space 100 MB
Hard Disk Type Any EIDI/Ultra DMA (7200 RPM) or SCSI Hard Drive
Graphics 1024 X 768, 16-bit color
MIDI Interface Windows compatible Windows compatible
Sound Card Windows compatible WDM or ASIO compatible
SONAR 5 does not support Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, or 2000.