**For Education Customers**
SONAR 6 Studio Edition is designed to take you from inspiration to masterpiece faster than ever before.
SONAR 6 provides you with unique tools that let you take control of your projects, perfect your tracks, and record and mix at the highest possible quality. In addition, SONAR 6 introduces a range of powerful features that address the growing needs of our users.
At every step of your production—from composing with virtual instruments, to recording, mixing, and beyond—SONAR gives you the professional tools and inspiring canvas that adapt to your unique style of music creation.
At last, project studios and musicians on a budget don’t have to sacrifice features for affordability, because SONAR 6 Studio Edition is built upon the same core feature set and pristine 64-bit double precision engine as SONAR 6 Producer Edition.
SONAR 6 Studio Edition New Feature Highlights:
- Active Controller Technology (ACT): dynamically re-maps effect, mix and instrument parameters to hardware controllers
- AudioSnap suite of tools includes: Non-destructive audio quantize, Quantize one track with another track’s feel, Convert audio beats to MIDI Slip-stretch clips to a new time or length, High-quality processing with multiple algorithms including iZoptope Radius, Percussion Mode, more
- New Synth Rack makes managing, controlling, and automating your instruments simple
- Console view redesigned for ergonomic mixing
- Modular Transport provides easy playback control and vital visual feedback
- Analyst spectrum analyzer
- Automation enhancements: read/write controls for tracks and plug-ins, enable automation during playback and record, visual automation cues, more
- Clip editing enhancements including lock to time
- Fast Zoom enables fast, precise edits without losing your place
- Per-channel EQ and assignable FX controls in Console view and Track Inspector
- Work seamlessly with VST plug-ins—VST support is now integrated into SONAR 6 and no longer requires an external VST to DX adapter
- Mouse wheel support for parameter control and zoom
- Import 64-bit floating point audio files and stream them at their native resolution from 64-bit tracks
- Crash Recovery safeguards your projects against faulty plug-ins and other sources of crashes
- Automatic file versioning: back up projects with time/date stamps for easy access to old versions
- Score video with Video Thumbnail Track in Track view
- Customizable user interface: put favorite features right at your fingertips
- User-customizable plug-in menus for easy organization and grouping
- Friendly driver naming (user-customizable audio hardware port names)
- Custom color schemes with saturation, hue, and brightness controls and color categories for easy customization
