Designed for project studios and aspiring professionals, SONAR 5 Studio Edition is built upon the same core engine and feature set of SONAR 5 Producer Edition offering a complete solution for recording, arranging, editing, and mixing your audio productions—all in a tightly integrated workspace. Below is a matrix highlighting some of the differences.
| Features |
Studio Edition
|
Producer Edition |
| Unlimited tracks of Audio and MIDI |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACID™ loop and MIDI Groove Clip support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Native DirectX, DXi, VST, VSTi, MFX and ReWire support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double precision floating point engine |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| 32 and 64-bit applications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Track Folders |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freeze (tracks, FXs and synths) |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Clip-based effects and editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Integrated inline MIDI and audio editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Roland® GrooveSynth™ |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Cyclone™ groove sampler |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SFZ SoundFont sampler |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Sonitus:fx Suite |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Lexicon® Pantheon™ Reverb |
|
Yes
|
| Sonitus Surround Compressor |
|
Yes
|
| RXP™ REX Player groove box |
|
Yes
|
| PSYN™ II subtractive synth |
|
Yes
|
| Pentagon™ I analog synth |
|
Yes
|
| Roland® V-Vocal™ VariPhrase technology |
|
Yes
|
| Perfect Space™ Convolution Reverb |
|
Yes
|
| POW-r dithering |
|
Yes
|
| MPEX 3 time scaling |
|
Yes
|
| Per-channel EQ and assignable FXs controls |
|
Yes
|
| Multi-format surround mixing |
|
Yes
|
| SurroundBridge™ |
|
Yes
|
| Video thumbnail track |
|
Yes
|
System Requirements
Minimum
- Operating System: Windows XP
- Processor Speed: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz, AMD Athlon XP 1500+
- RAM: 128 MB
- Hard Disk Space: 100 MB
- Hard Disk Type: Any
- Graphics: 1024 X 768, 16-bit color
- MIDI Interface: Windows compatible
- Sound Card: Windows compatible
Recommended
- Operating System: Windows XP/x64*
- Processor Speed: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz+, AMD Athlon 64 2800+
- RAM: 512 MB
- Hard Disk Space: Multiple GBs
- Hard Disk Type: EIDI/Ultra DMA (7200 RPM) or SCSI Hard Drive
- Graphics: 1280 X 960, 24-bit color or higher
- MIDI Interface**: Windows compatible
- Sound Card: WDM or ASIO compatible
Please Note:
- SONAR 5 does not support Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, or 2000.
- DVD-ROM required to install SONAR 5 Producer Edition.
- QuickTime support requires QuickTime 6 or higher.
- New customers purchasing SONAR 5 will be required to register the product within 30-days of installation for continued use. If you purchase through Cakewalk.com, you will be auto-registered using your purchase information.
