Bring the professional power of SONAR to your home PC with new SONAR Home Studio Version 4. There is no better software for musicians taking the first step into digital recording. The newest member of the SONAR family comes with a comprehensive feature set that turns your computer into a multitrack recording studio, giving you everything you need to take your music from inspiration to finished CD.
SONAR Home Studio is built with the same core features as Cakewalk SONAR 4. Its intuitive tools make it easy to record, edit, mix, and arrange professional-quality music. It includes powerful tools; built-in instruments and effects; support for DirectX, VST, ReWire, and MFX instruments and effects; support for ACID™-format loops; and much more.
Features
- 64 audio tracks and unlimited MIDI tracks
- Pristine audio quality up to 24-bit/192 kHz
- Included instruments: Virtual Sound Canvas, Dreamstation, and Sfz
- Integrate ReWire™ compatible applications including Project5™, Kinetic™, and Reason™
- Add sounds from additional DXi and VSTi soft synths
- Never miss a take again with Confidence Recording
- Keep perfect time with a built-in audio metronome
- Use included ACID™-format library to create backing tracks
- Powerful editing: multi-clip edits, loop-rolling, fade drawing, more
- Frequently used controls are right at your fingertips
- Precise waveform display for detailed editing
- Unlimited undo/redo with edit history
- Navigator Pane to get a bird’s eye view of your entire project
- Tweak pitch, pan, and gain of slices in any
- ACID™-format loop to make them your own
- Paint MIDI drum tracks with rhythmic pattern brush
- Edit and print music notation
- Responsive mixing with a 32-bit floating point audio engine
- All the effects you need: 15 audio effects, and 9 MIDI MFX
- Add VST and DirectX effects with full plug-in delay compensation
- Customizable Track Icons for easy organizing and mixing of projects
- Control surface support
- Export your mix: WAV, ACID-format WAV, AVI, MIDI, MP3*, Real Audio G2, Windows Media Audio (WMA), and Windows Media Video (WMV)
- Burn your mixes to CD with included Pyro Express CD maker
Recording any instrument is easy. Just plug in, check your levels, and hit record. Confidence Recording will draw the wave shape on to your screen as you record so you know you are getting the take. Hear internal effects on input, even while you record. If you need help getting a project started, choose from hundreds of preset sounds that will help ignite your creativity. Once you have recorded your tracks, you can visually arrange, edit, and mix your music with point-and-click ease—all in one view.
Create backing tracks in a matter of seconds. Find the perfect loop in the Loop Explorer, then click and drag it to start building your arrangement. You can chop up your beats, add dynamics, and create remixes with just a few clicks of the mouse. The enhanced Loop Construction View allows you to take control of your loops—tweak the pitch, pan, and gain of slices in any ACID™-format loop. SONAR Home Studio includes a loop library to get started, and you can create loops out of any recorded audio.
With different views including Arrange, Piano Roll, Drum Editor, and Loop Construction, you can zoom in and make pinpoint edits to your project. Change the tempo and pitch; normalize or reverse the audio; preview, move, extend or cut certain sections; add track envelopes. Use many of the same advanced features found in SONAR including multi-clip edits, loop-rolling, fade drawing, and more. And with non-destructive editing, and unlimited undo/redo, you can always change your mind about an edit at any time.
Mixing in SONAR Home Studio is easy with new Track Icons—no more guessing which track contains guitar or which track has the vocals. Mute, Solo, Pan, and change the Gain all in one view to achieve the best mix. Add effects to your mix, and A/B them with just a click of a button. Professional metering provides the visual feedback you need for better real-time mixing. Mix in a more traditional studio console view or use your own control surface hardware to get the feel of real knobs and faders.
Everything is laid out in an intuitive interface that lets you quickly record, edit, arrange, and mix your music. No matter what you want to record—guitars, keyboards, vocals, live turntable scratches, CD samples, or any other sound—SONAR Home Studio puts it all together seamlessly.
SONAR Home Studio gives you hundreds of sounds to get started. It includes the Virtual Sound Canvas (modeled after the famous Roland® instrument), Dreamstation vintage analog synth, and Sfz SoundFont player. In addition, you can add your favorite DXi or VSTi instruments—available separately.
Get more synth sounds by patching Project5™, Kinetic™, Reason™, ReBirth™, and other ReWire compatible synths right into SONAR Home Studio’s Synth Rack. Or add advanced audio recording, mixing, and editing capabilities to Kinetic or Reason.
SONAR Home Studio is great for Remixers and DJs who need powerful looping tools. The Loop Explorer allows you to find perfect loop, preview it in the tempo and key of your song, and quickly drag it into your project. Browse through the included Cakewalk Loops sample library, or create your own loops using any MP3, WAV file, or your own recorded tracks.
SONAR Home Studio integrates notation tools that allow you to create and print your own musical scores. Record and transcribe performances using any MIDI instrument, or just point and click to edit notes directly on the staff. Print up to 24 staves per page, with chord charts and symbols, lyrics, dynamic markings, and more.
SONAR Home Studio provides a fast and effective way to create, edit, and dub soundtracks for digital video files. Just import and sync a Windows AVI, or MPEG video to your SONAR Home Studio project. Make and edit soundtracks and sound effects for band videos or home movies.
All the professional effects you need are included in SONAR Home Studio: Chorus, Delay, EQ, Flange, Reverb, and many more. Add hundreds of additional DirectX and VST effects—available separately.
Export to many Internet-friendly formats including MP3* and WMA. Use the included Cakewalk Pyro Express to burn your own audio CDs—perfect for distributing your music on CD, listening to mixes on different stereos, or just enjoying your music on the go. You can also rip tracks off CD to remix in SONAR Home Studio.
SONAR Home Studio includes comprehensive tutorials to help you get a project started. You get the “Getting Started” printed manual to get you up and running quickly. In addition, you also get unparalleled free customer service and access to an online user community.
