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Cakewalk Sonar 8.5 Producer & Studio
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Cakewalk has announced the release of version 8.5 of both SONAR Producer and SONAR Studio. SONAR 8.5 includes enhanced beat creation and arrangement tools, a new drum instrument loaded with kits and patterns, an enhanced audio timing toolset, new multi-stage effect plug-ins for drums and percussion sounds and vocal tracks, engine optimizations and stability improvements, and many additional workflow and technological advances, notably Windows 7 compatibility, according to the company.
New Features, according to Cakewalk:
- Matrix View: simple and flexible cell-based, non-linear audio and MIDI arranging with live triggering capability.
- Step Sequencer 2.0: powerful step sequencing.
- Integrated Arpeggiator: trigger Arpeggiations on MIDI or instrument tracks with in-depth control over all arp parameters. Includes hundreds of presets.
- Session Drummer 3: latest version of Cakewalk's virtual instrument for easy and fast creation of drum tracks with a new UI, kits and patterns from top sound designers and drummers.
- AudioSnap 2.0: updated audio quantizing and time shifting technology with new look and refinements to all the core controls, significantly improving workflow, plus improved offline rendering.
- Media Browser: the new hub for content access within SONAR; supports multiple formats to preview and import all your loops, grooves, and MIDI patterns; features presets to quickly grab content from your favorite locations.
- PX-64 Percussion Strip: seven-stage processor designed specifically for use with drums and percussion.
- VX-64 Vocal Strip: seven-stage processor optimized for shaping and sculpting vocal tracks.
- Windows 7 Support: tested, ready, and recommended for use.
- Engine optimizations and stability improvements for recording audio, and while looping.
- "Hotswap" audio and MIDI devices, including control surfaces, without restarting SONAR.
- VST plug-in compatibility improvements.
- Native REX loop support featured in Track View, Media Browser, and Matrix View.
- BitBridge XR: run 32-bit plug-ins in 64-bit environments, with memory access now extended up to 128 GB RAM.
Pricing and Availability
SONAR 8.5 Producer has a street price of $499, SONAR 8.5 Studio $299, and are available at select music and sound retailers.
Registered SONAR 8 Producer customers can download the SONAR 8.5 Producer upgrade for $99 and SONAR 8 Studio customers can download the SONAR 8.5 Studio upgrade for $79 directly from Cakewalk.com.
All SONAR V-Studio 700 customers and those SONAR customers who purchased SONAR 8 after July 1st are eligible for a free download of the 8.5 upgrade. An upgrade DVD is also available for an additional nominal fee for those customers with slower connection speeds or who prefer physical media.
International Pricing
SONAR 8.5 Producer and Studio software is available in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian; English, German, and French boxed versions come with a printed multi-language User's Guide; Spanish and Italian boxed versions come with a PDF format of the User's Guide. SONAR 8.5 is available through Roland and Edirol distribution partners.
Europe's recommended retail price for SONAR 8.5 Producer and SONAR 8.5 Studio are €499 and €299 RRP inc VAT respectively; U.K. pricing is £435 and £265 RRP inc VAT respectively, and are available at select music and sound retailers around the world.
Registered SONAR 8 Producer customers can download the SONAR 8.5 Producer upgrade for £89, €99 and SONAR 8 Studio customers can download the SONAR 8.5 Studio upgrade for £69, €79, directly from Cakewalk.com.
Registered SONAR 8 Producer customers can purchase the boxed version of the SONAR 8.5 Producer upgrade for £109 / €119 and SONAR 8 Studio customers can purchase the boxed version of the SONAR 8.5 Studio upgrade for £89 / €99 directly from Cakewalk.com or a Roland and Edirol distribution partner.
All SONAR V-Studio 700 customers and those SONAR customers who purchased or upgraded to SONAR 8 after July 1st (worldwide excluding Japan) are eligible for a free download of the 8.5 upgrade.
For more detailed info on this product, visit Cakewalk.com.
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Cakewalk Announces Free Update When Buying SONAR 8
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Cakewalk has announced a new promotion where users who purchase or upgrade to SONAR 8 Producer or SONAR 8 Studio will receive the next paid update to SONAR as a free download when released.
Availability
Purchase or upgrade to SONAR 8 Producer or SONAR 8 Studio at any participating music & sound retailer worldwide or Cakewalk.com starting July 1st 2009, and receive the next feature-rich update to SONAR as a free download when released later this year.
Cakewalk will also be making the free download available to anyone who has purchased SONAR V-Studio 700, starting from the product's initial release in January.
The next update to SONAR will also be available on DVD for a nominal fee at the time of release for those customers with slower connection speeds or who prefer physical media.
In addition, US retailers are offering $100 rebates on SONAR 8 and many participating retailers worldwide are offering savings on SONAR 8 starting July 1st.
For more information visit www.cakewalk.com/sonarupgrade.
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Cakewalk Sonar 8 Update
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Cakewalk has updated Sonar 8 Producer and Sonar 8 Studio to v8.3.1.
The following list of changes appears to be the same as the v8.3 update so I assume v8.3.1 includes miscellaneous fixes and enhancements.
Issues Resolved in SONAR 8.3.1
- External Inserts:
o The External Insert ping test now returns consistent delay offset values.
o Audio now stays in sync with multiple External Inserts in a project.
o Scrub now works with External Inserts in a project.
o Deleting and External Insert during playback no longer causes a crash.
o Using an External Insert on a track containing Groove Clips no longer causes a crash.
o Improved stability when changing driver type from ASIO to WDM with a project opened that includes External Inserts.
o Automating External Insert parameters no longer causes crashes.
o External Insert now displays delay offset value when used in a bus.
- Instrument Tracks:
o Dragging & dropping clips to/from Instrument Tracks sometimes resulted in clips disappearing.
o Improved stability when archiving, deleting, inserting (as well as undo) instrument tracks or tracks routed to sidechain inputs.
- General:
o Moving clips to snap points sometimes did not align properly.
o With Aim Assist on, Move-By didn't work properly when dragging the end of a clip.
o SONAR sometimes crashed when saving/loading presets from VST plug-ins.
o It is now possible to use the Insert Send Assistant to create pre-fader sends without patching an effect.
o Improved stability when hiding strips in the Console View.
o Audio would sometimes drop out during realtime bouncing and exporting.
o Improved performance and reliability when using dynamic arm feature.
o User defined ACT MIDI Controller presets did not always appear in the plug-in preset list.
o SONAR now correctly reports on and fully utilizes odd-core CPUs (3-core, for example).
o V-Vocal Mute/Solo controls sometimes affected the wrong track in projects containing instrument tracks.
o Improved support for opening Type 1 MIDI files in SONAR x64.
New Features in SONAR 8.3.1:
- Live input plug-in delay compensation (PDC) override:
o Delay compensation can now be disabled on live tracks during playback/recording to reduce latency.
- Multiprocessor load balancing:
o SONAR's audio engine has enhanced multicore performance and load balancing.
o The CPU meter in the status bar now shows all average with peak for all available processors.
- Aim Assist enhancements:
o When Snap to Grid is enabled, the Aim Assist line follows the current Snap to Grid setting.
o New behavior when selecting and moving a clip with the Select Tool:
+ Click the front/left portion of a clip - The Aim Assist line snaps to the the start of the clip boundary and travels with the clip as it is dragged.
+ Click the rear/right portion of a clip - The Aim Assist line snaps to the end of the clip boundary and snap operates on the clip's end.
- Snap to Grid enhancements:
o You can save and recall Snap to Grid presets and specify snap landmarks should be obtained from all visible tracks or only the current track.
- Dynamic Arm enhancement:
o 'Only For Inputs In Project' option instructs SONAR to only open hardware input ports that are currently active in the project, reducing CPU overhead when the 'Allow Arm Changes During Playback/Record' is enabled in the Transport | Record Options dialog.
- External insert enhancements:
o Improved sync when mixing external hardware with other plug-ins that require delay compensation.
o Improved sync while looping.
o Multiple external inserts can be used in the same project.
o Improved stability on computers with multiple cores/processors.
- Global effects bypass:
o SONAR now allows you to globally bypass all audio effects in a project, only tracks, only buses or only clip effects.
- Split clip group enhancement:
o SONAR can automatically create a new clip group when splitting clips in an existing clip group.
- New Split clip options:
o Left portion (default) - Only the left portion is selected after a split.
o Right portion - Only the right portion is selected after a split.
o Both portions - Both left and right portions are selected after a split.
o None - Neither portion is selected after a split.
- Notification when track/bus outputs are assigned to silent output:
o If there is a discrepancy between the port assignments that were saved and the ports that are used in the current configuration, the ports are set to "None" and the Silent Busses Detected dialog warns the user.
- Guitar Rig 3.2.1 LE enhancements (SONAR 8.3 Producer Edition only):
o Vista 64-bit support.
o New Bass Pro amp.
o New Stomp Compressor.
o MIDI input filter in the Preferences tab.
o Improved performance.
- TruePianos Vista x64 support (SONAR 8.3 Producer only):
o The TruePianos Amber Module VSTi plug-in now supports Vista 64-bit.
- Classic sounds for Dimension Pro and Dimension LE:
o Original samples from the legendary Roland SH-101, TB-303, and VP-330.
o Classic sounds of the Arp Odyssey, Minimoog and Sequential Circuit's Prophet 5.
- Classic drum kits for Session Drummer 2:
o Original samples from the class Roland TR-707, TR-727, TR-808, and TR-909.
o Kits from Sequential Circuit's Drumtrak's and Linn Electronics LinnDrum.
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